Abita Purple Haze

Brewed by Abita Brewing Company
Style: Fruit Beer
Covington, Louisiana USA

...well, I was slightly disappointed in this brew from all the hype. It was still decent out of the bottle, but nothing amazing. Nice framboise flavor that’s not overpowering. Fruity, has a slight bite, and decent mouthfeel, but tastes artificial and slightly over carbonated. Not that great, and usually expensive, but worth a try.

The raspberry taste in this one was a little off and sour, although it was clearly present. Lacked some beer qualities and almost made this into a fruit drink with alcohol.

Pours cloudy yellow/orange with a medium sudsy/creamy white head. Smells like cheap keg beer and fruit syrup. Very light and crisp beer, refreshing. Sweet wheaty taste with light tinge of raspberries. Not entirely intersting... like a diet soda. A raspberry wheat would be awesome if it was loaded with raspberries.

Hazy yellow gold hue, with an off-white head, wheaty, fruity nose of raspberries and blackberies, with subtle tartness, hint of honeyed pale malt in the aroma follows through on a medium-bodied palate with a crisp yeasty, fruity acidic blackberry fruity character despite the fact that they added raspberries, it’s more blackberry for me, with a note of tartness, a mild honeyed pale malt accent, leading towards an acidic, spritzy raspberry light sourness finish.

Bottle thanks to 17th floor. pours a nice hazy straw yellow with billowy white head. Nose is very srtificial rasberry with some soured grain. Flavor starts off with faint rasberry sweetness then movses toward a skunky wheat finsh some cardboard as well. Body is weak and watery. Gross!!!

Pours red with a white head. Smells of raspberries and syruppy. Tastes of syrup, some wheat. Not one of their better beers.

12oz bottle. Pours out a cloudy gold-amber with a fine white head. Smells like old wheat bread and raspberry jam. Tastes like watery grain with a light, fake fruit flavor added. Thin and fizzy body feels pretty bad in the mouth. Not something that I would get again.

I wish it was warm enough outside today to cut the grass and have one of these. A beer for someone who does not particularly like the taste of beer. Too raspberry for my liking, but beats the hell out of a Coors Blue Moon. Not as bad as these ratings make it out to be.