Wild Raspberry Ale
Great Divide Brewing Company in Denver, Colorado, United States 🇺🇸
Fruit Beer Regular|
Score
5.96
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Great Divide's mantra is that real fruit makes real beer, so Great Divide ferments Wild Raspberry Ale with hundreds of pounds of real red and black raspberries. Wild Raspberry Ale is a truly effervescent, ruby red ale that achieves the almost impossible balance between malted barley and tart raspberry fruitiness. Its naturally tart character makes Wild Raspberry the ultimate accompaniment to spicy Mexican food or on its own as a stand-alone session beer.
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6.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 4
Overall 6.5
Pours a clear dark amber with a medium off-white head. Aroma of raspberries, mild tartness and medium sweetness. Flavour of muted wild raspberries, with a perfect balance of sweetness and sourness, which cancel each other out. Sort of a floral, jasmine-like tone to the raspberries on the finish. Too bad the flavours are muted because the flavours themselves are quite nice. Good, but a little weak.
Tried
from Can
on 29 Jan 2012
at 14:11
6.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
From notes: Tap @ Beer Temple. Red color, lots of pinkish foam. Aroma’s of fresh raspberries. Fruity flavor, not at all sweet. Light body. Finishes with some grainy malt and a light bitterness. Nice enough to try once.
Tried
from Draft
on 30 Dec 2011
at 01:36
6.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 5
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6
12 oz bottle purchased as a single at MDL in Overland Park, Kansas. Pour is a brown ruby, mostly clear with a light tan head. Aroma light nutty malt, a light touch of floral fruit sweetness, along with a bit of chemical vegetal. Taste is the nutty maltiness, then a brief tart raspberry, then back to the cooking malt brown sugar sweet flavor. In the back there is a bit the earthiness from the nose. Palate is medium bodied, with lower carbonation. Body thins out in the back, and reveals another brief whisper of the raspberry fruit. Overall, not a bad base beer, though the fruit was way subdued and not really what I expected "wild" to be. Just OK.
Tried
from Bottle
on 28 Nov 2011
at 13:20
6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 5
Texture 4
Overall 7
12 oz. bottle. Pours dark amber with a thin, tan head. The aroma is distinctly raspberries, with some light notes of bread and caramel. The flavor is sweet and very tart. The palate is light to medium and sticky. Overall, this is a nice fruit beer, but nothing special.
Tried
from Bottle
on 20 Nov 2011
at 18:44
5.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 5
Flavor 4
Texture 6
Overall 5
Refrigerated bottle poured into a white wine glass. Pours cloudy crimson red with small golden highlights. Some lacing, medium body, and watery. Taste is light malt, some hops, and a hint of raspberry. This is a fruit beer?
Tried
from Bottle
on 15 Jul 2011
at 19:27
6.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 4
Overall 7.5
On tap at Euston Tap. Deep russet colour with virtually no head. Yes it has some raspberry. Not funky on aroma but decent fruit in mouth. Some sweetness. Kinda works but a little watery in the mouth. Interesting and good fruit just a little watery and has no funk
Tried
from Draft
on 26 Feb 2011
at 14:49
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Tap @ Beer Temple. Hazy red pinkish color, short head. Aroma is bit sweet, quite fruity, hint of tartness. Slight sour, bit sweet, quite fruity. Actually, quite well balanced. Usually its or the sourness or the sweetness that overwhelms the rest. Or too much raspberry. But, at least from tap, this one balances out pretty nice.
Tried
from Draft
on 24 Dec 2010
at 02:07
6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Tap @ The brewery. Pours clear pink, lighter pink head. Nose is sweet malt, and raspberries. Taste is sweet malt, honey and raspberries. More sweet that the tartness i was expecting. Thin to medium body, lively coranated. 041210
Tried
from Draft
on 05 Dec 2010
at 17:12
6.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 5.5
Pours clear pinkish purple color with lavender head. Aromas of fresh raspberries. Toasted malt flavor with some sweet raspberries. Light to medium body with lively carbonation.
Tried
on 01 Dec 2010
at 19:26
5.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 5
Texture 4
Overall 5
On tap at Beer Temple in Amsterdam, November 2010. Reddish with a medium pink head. A lot of Raspberries in the aroma, not that much in the sweet taste. Thin mouth feel with a short aftertaste. Drinkable but nothing special.
Tried
from Draft
on 23 Nov 2010
at 05:10