Purple Haze
(has 1 batch)
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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7.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
12oz bottle from Wegman’s, King of Prussia, PA. A hazy pale amber colour with a pinkish tint and a rim of white head; the aroma is a pleasing blend of raspberry and grain; in the mouth, the fruit is clearly present, but isn’t overpowering, and the grains add to the body; the finish has a slight tartness from the fruit and an underlying dryness. As good as any Belgian fruit beer.
Tried
from Bottle
on 11 Sep 2012
at 17:52
5.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Enjoyed in a Boston pub. Pours a slight hazy amber with a pink hue. White head with decent foamy lace. Grainy nose with a little raspberry. Nice wet mouthfeel with a little stickiness. Taste is the same as aromas. Pretty refreshing summer fruit beer with the raspberries not being overpowering.
Tried
on 02 Jul 2012
at 15:52
5.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 4
Bottle @ home. Hazy, orangish peach appearance with a cream colored head. Fairly rich raspberry syrup, well carbonated, light grainy skunk aroma. High, prickly carbonation. Fairly potent, yet dull raspberry flavor with notes of toasted grain, grass, and hay. Bleh.
Tried
from Bottle
on 09 Jun 2012
at 22:24
5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 4
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 5
Tap. Pours cloudy amber with a small quickly dissipating head and little lacing. Aroma is fruity - raspberry and a little grain in the background. Taste is sweet, with obvious raspberries and malt flavors and a mildly bitter finish.
Tried
from Draft
on 15 May 2012
at 20:07
6/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 7
On tap at the Perimeter Mall Taco Mac. Pours gold with a thin head. The aroma is raspberries, wheat, caramel malts, and a little floral and piney hops. The flavor is sweet, with a little sourness in the middle. The aftertaste is mildly bitter and fades quickly. The palate is light to medium, crisp, and a little sticky. Overall, this is a fairly good fruit beer. The raspberries are present, but not overbearing.
Tried
from Draft
on 05 Mar 2012
at 19:10
5.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 5
Texture 4
Overall 5
On tap at Bobalouie’s
Appearance: Clear golden with a small white head and spotty lacing
Aroma: Raspberry and wheat
Taste: Raspberry, wheat and grainy
OK, but back to Harpoon IPA and SN Pale ale for the rest of the night.
Appearance: Clear golden with a small white head and spotty lacing
Aroma: Raspberry and wheat
Taste: Raspberry, wheat and grainy
OK, but back to Harpoon IPA and SN Pale ale for the rest of the night.
Tried
from Draft
on 22 Nov 2011
at 13:54
6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Draught at the Liberty in Columbia SC, 2008. Reddish-purple color. Raspberry is a bit too sweet and syrupy for me. OK wheat flavor, but it’s just too much raspberries and comes off as a bit fake.
Tried
on 15 Sep 2011
at 22:27
5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 3
Texture 6
Overall 3
Abita Purple Haze smells nice, I’ll give it that. Were you to imagine the nose of what a raspberry wheat beer needs to be, Purple Haze would fit your description. And the slightly rosy coloration looks wonderful, proving the name is more that just a marketing gimmick. But it tastes just like you’d imagine a raspberry wheat beer to taste, and, for jaded Beer Geeks like myself, that means a beer that is much too sweet for any true love to develop. Abita is an odd brewery in this manner; their spring Strawberry brew has just enough fruit flavor to remind you that you (shamefully, most likely) are drinking a fruit beer. But Purple Haze slaps you in the mouth with sweet, clingy raspberry. Can’t be too mean, though, because my wife loves this beer. (2008)
Tried
from Can
on 07 May 2011
at 18:28
5.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 5
Texture 4
Overall 5
A hazed blonde ale with a thin white head. In aroma, chemical powdered fruit extracts, light acidic points. In mouth, a light fruity wheat with light lactic points, summer quaffer, boring. Bottled at ROC Empire Brewfest, Feb. 19 2011.
Tried
from Bottle
on 23 Feb 2011
at 18:53
6/10
Tried
on 28 Jan 2011
at 11:53