Purple Haze
Abita Brewing Company in Abita Springs, Louisiana, United States 🇺🇸
Fruit Beer Regular|
Score
5.58
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Purple Haze® is a lager brewed with real raspberries added after filtration. It is brewed with pilsner and wheat malts and Vanguard hops. The berries add a fruity aroma, tartly sweet taste and a subtle purple color and haze...you may see fruit pulp in the beer. This beer is best served with salads or light fruit desserts, such as soufflés or chiffon cakes. Many people enjoy it with chocolate desserts. Purple Haze® pairs well with certain cheeses, such as ripened Brie or any dessert made with mascarpone. It’s also great paired with entrees prepared with fruit, especially citrus. Consider enjoying Purple Haze® alone at the end of your meal as dessert.
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6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6
On tap. Pours an orange/ brown with light head. Aromas of fruity malts. Flavours of light raspberry juice and butter.
Tried
from Draft
on 30 Oct 2013
at 18:32
5.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 5
Flavor 4
Texture 6
Overall 4.5
0.33l bottle @ Alta, NYC. A clear golden one with a nice small just off-white head. Smells of dry raspberries, wheat and flour. Slightly artificial perhaps, but not all that bad. It has a mild earthy and dry flavor. Soft oily on the mouthfeel, kinda thin almost and the carbonation is average. A bit blend perhaps and definitely not to exciting. Tastes much what it smells with wheat, old raspberries and jam. No need for a revisit. 23.06 2013
Tried
from Bottle
on 01 Aug 2013
at 01:37
7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
12 ounce bottle into pint glass, best before 6/5/2013. Pours moderately hazy and cloudy golden orange color with a 1-2 finger dense white head with good retention, that reduces to a small cap that lingers. Spotty soapy lacing clings on the glass, with some moderate streaming carbonation. Aromas of big tart raspberry, wheat, cracker, and floral earthiness. Very nice aromas with big strength of raspberries that smell very authentic. Taste of raspberry, wheat, cracker, floral, grass, light pepper, and floral earthiness. Lingering notes of raspberry, wheat, cracker, floral, grass, light pepper, and floral earthiness on the finish for a bit. Nice balance of raspberry, bready malt, and hop notes; with a decent amount of robustness and no cloying flavors after the finish. Medium carbonation and body; with a smooth and very crisp mouthfeel that is nice. Alcohol is very well hidden with no warming noticed after the finish. Overall this is a very good fruit beer. Good balance of fruit, malt, and hop flavors; and extremely smooth to drink. I definitely enjoyed this as a nice session-able brew.
Tried
from Bottle
on 01 Jul 2013
at 19:24
6/10
Tried
on 15 Jun 2013
at 11:17
10/10
Tried
on 19 May 2013
at 13:03
6/10
Tried
on 18 May 2013
at 17:34
6/10
Tried
on 25 Mar 2013
at 20:17
5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 5
Texture 4
Overall 4
smells and tastes like raspberries. Thats pretty much the beers only achievement. Girl gave me a sample of this in Penn station. Pours clear brown with fizzy head, high carbontation.
Tried
on 31 Dec 2012
at 18:33
5.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 5
Texture 4
Overall 5
Pours a slightly hazy golden straw color with a good sized whit head that slowly dissipates to a cap on top. Funny, but for a beer brewed with raspberries and called purple haze, I was definitely expecting more color. The nose holds a bit of tart raspberry along with a spicy wheat and bready malt aroma. The flavor is sweet with mild raspberry flavor that peeks in and out of a bready honey like spicy wheat malt base. Medium to light body with a moderate level of carbonation and a sweet watery and slick mouthfeel. This is just so blah. The berries feel weak and artificial and the underlying beer is uninspiring as well.
Tried
on 07 Dec 2012
at 15:37
6.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
Bottle. Beer of the month club. 4.2%. Good-looking hazy orange-amber color with a medium white head. Nice aroma of fresh raspberries. Dry-ish flavor with light sweetness, a bit of graininess, a hint of cardboard, wheat, light tartness, some rapsberries and a drier finish with light bitterness. Rather light-bodied. Quite refreshing and better than I expected.
Tried
from Bottle
on 21 Sep 2012
at 14:50