Roxanne Raspberry Sour
Starr Hill Brewery in Crozet, Virginia, United States 🇺🇸
Sour / Wild Beer - Flavoured Regular|
Score
6.65
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An extremely low-hopped, kettle-soured wheat ale. Sweet and tart with raspberry puree and carbonation turned up, this is an effervescent and refreshing brew.
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7/10
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Appearance 7
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 7
Overall 7
Can from Dan: pours clear light red with white head. Aroma is raspberry, light lacto funk. Not very sweet. Tastes like seltzer and raspberry syrup.
Tried
from Can
on 02 Dec 2025
at 16:42
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Draft: Poured a pinkish with a white lacing head. Aroma is berries, pungent. Taste is berry tartness, raspberry.
Tried
from Draft
on 21 Apr 2023
at 16:57
6/10
Tried
on 15 Apr 2023
at 00:23
6.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 6.5
Tap at the brewery taproom Richmond Virginia. A clear reddish copper coloured pour with a halo of off white head. Aroma is semi sweet, tart red berries, some faint sweet sugars, cake. Flavour is composed of semi sweet and tart, tangy, sour, red berries. Cranberry sour. Palate is semi sweet, tangy sour highish carbonation.
Tried
from Draft
on 15 Apr 2023
at 00:22
6.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 7
Can pour at the Starr Hill Tysons Biergarten. Poured a slightly pale ruby-yellow color with a small white head. Aroma wasn't overly tart - at least compared to so many kettle sours. Raspberry tartness more than anything else. Flavor was very light raspberry juice, with a very light, semi-sweet tart bite.
Tried
from Can
on 21 Jun 2022
at 06:28
7/10
Light strawberry pink red pour. Thick foam. Raspberry nose. Sweet and sour flavor. Raspberry malt palate. Easy carbonation
Tried
on 16 Apr 2022
at 21:16
6.5/10
Tried
on 21 Dec 2021
at 11:22
7.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
12 ounce bottle thanks to hershiser2! Murky red, thin fizzy off-white head, good retention. Aroma of tart berry, wheat, a bit of lacto. Taste is jammy berries, fresh berries, lemon. Sourness is very mild. That being said, it's simple but very tasty. Nice.
Tried
from Bottle
on 26 Jan 2020
at 23:10
6.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 6
Standard raspberry sour, tart berries with a citric bite, slight jammy sweetness on top of a welcome toasted grain undertone. I know breweries have to make beers like these to appease today's market, but damned if it isn't impossible to differentiate one from another. Not bad. Not interesting. Precisely what you expect when you see Raspberry Sour on the label.
Tried
on 06 Jul 2019
at 21:40
6.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6
Pink coloured body with a faint, thinnish peach and tan head that shows only larger bubbles with little else. Aroma of tart raspberries, blueberries and a dash of wheat noticeable, all with a kettled sour and lemon bite towards the end, especially. Light-bodied; Strong tart raspberry flavours up front with a light brine and salty component tha shows some wheat, yeast and especially raspberry notes with a twinge of artificiality with some more unique wheatie and tart finishes that has a hint of alcohol tucked in near the end and a dash of grass as well. Aftertaste shows the tart fruity notes with a little brine and pure salt flavours with a dry and decidedly perfumey aftertaste that make this even more complex - especially during the first few sips. Overall, a fairly mild tart and lightly soured beer that shows some gose like flavours of brine and salt, but the fruity notes definitely outweigh the former and the finish shows some complexity and fruity, soured grain. I sampled this twelve ounce bottle purchased by my Mom in Manassas, Virginia and shared with me on Mother's Day 2019 - 12-May-2019.
Tried
from Bottle
on 13 May 2019
at 06:35