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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6.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 6.5
Bottle at the Bloomington Beer Festival. Poured roan with an off-white head. Aroma was full of raspberry notes. Flavor had a few hoppy notes that balanced nicely with the tart raspberries.
Tried
from Bottle
on 26 Oct 2009
at 18:04
6.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6
tap - on tap at the great divide in denver - not really my kind of beer but was actually pretty tasty for a raspberry beer
Tried
from Draft
on 12 Sep 2009
at 22:44
5.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
12 ounce bottle from a bottle shop in Sylva, NC. Pours a slightly hazy cranberry red color with a large head. Annoyingly persistent retention and decent lacing. Aroma is raspberries with strong nutty notes. Taste uis raspberries, caramel, and a nutty graininess. Medium bodied. Eh.
Tried
from Bottle
on 01 May 2009
at 23:08
5.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 5
Texture 4
Overall 7
Bottle. Pours a clear amber with a medium frothy white head. Good spotty lacing on the glass. The aroma is a sweet rasberry and dark fruit. The taste is a very sour fruit with a bitter finish. A decent fruit beer from Great Divide.
Tried
from Bottle
on 03 Jan 2009
at 19:56
5.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 5
Texture 4
Overall 5.5
Bottle. Orange-red colour. Pink head. Aroma of raspberry sweetness and a small sourness. Fruity taste of raspberrys. Kind of watery beer with a thin body.
Tried
from Bottle
on 30 Nov 2008
at 16:35
6.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 5
Texture 8
Overall 5.5
Bottle from Barley Wine (Copenhagen) Red hazy beer with lots of carbonation and yeast. The head is off white to pink in colour. The aroma is sweet and dominated by raspberrys. The taste contains raspberrys, fruitiness, acid, some yeast and an unfamiliar bitterness.
Tried
from Bottle
on 29 Nov 2008
at 18:09
5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 4
Texture 4
Overall 5
Pours with a foamy off-white head. Redish clear, body. Aroma of berry, honey, wheat, hay and dirt. Taste is slightly metallicy, astringent wheat, with berries in the back. Fizzy and dry.
Tried
on 29 Aug 2008
at 22:54
6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
12 oz. bottle, April ’08 bottling. Pours a basic brown beer color, foam has just a tinge of pink. Raspberries predominate in the smell, and not to its disadvantage; comes across like real raspberry instead of flavoring. Berries still up front in the taste, but there is an undeniable backbone of malt. Vienna roast, perhaps, of light crystal. At least they tried for a base beer that doesn’t get overwhelmed by fruitiness, and it pretty near succeeds. Bubbles are a little much for my taste, tend to build up gas that for others might deliver more fruit flavor, for me it gets in the way. Still, a good beer in a style with so many bad examples.
Tried
from Bottle
on 11 Aug 2008
at 22:45
5.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 4
Overall 5.5
Reddish brown color. Head leaves some lacing. Really powerful raspberry aroma. Plenty of the malts. Slightly bitter. Raspberry taste up the wazoo.
Tried
on 06 Jul 2008
at 21:25
6.3/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 7
Pours ruby red, with a very thick white head that quickly foams to the top. Releases a very enjoyable smell of raspberries. The aroma is a little opposite to it, while the raspeberry is present, it is overtaken by a malty/chocolate aroma. It is however a well-balanced beer, very enjoyable. Could had been a great fruity beer as without all this malt.
Tried
on 16 Jun 2008
at 20:20