Abita Purple Haze

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

Poured hazy and orange and I want to say a bit pink, but I may have been imagining things. The head was short, white and fizzy. The aroma was dry wheat and sugars and artificial smelling fruit. The flavor was like a kids breakfast cereal. Thin body. Lingering artificial aftertaste. Meh.

~ Purchased a 6-pack from Frank’s Beverage in Glen Cove, NY. Hazy orange in color with almost no head, there’s really not much going on here in the appearance department. Aromas are of raspberries and wheat. Taste is the same. It’s certainly refreshing, but that’s about all this beer has to offer. ~

. I would not tell people to try this, for most people would not like it. I do not know why, but I do. But not really. . . It is a weak beer. Nothing special. Very weak raspberry infusion. They call it a wheat. Very tart after taste. It is not a good beer at all. But despite all of this. If I am at the six pack store and I have one more spot to fill, I will grab one of these. Why I do not know. . . .

On tap during the annual Boston/Salem/Marble head tour. Sampled at the Sunset grill. I didn’t lnow what to really make of this one. It was ok, the fruit was well hidden but seemed to have no identity of its own.

Bottle. Looks and smells like a pale lager. Aroma is not raspberries, rather is pretty much the same grainy, corn notes typical of macros. Taste is similar plus an addition of artificial raspberry syrup. Very one-sided, boring, unimpressive.

I was willing to try this just because who couldn’t turn down a purple beer? Turns out it isn’t even remotely purple and it tastes like crap. Also, if they added raspberry puree to the brew, I couldn’t taste it.

I sampled this beer on draft at Max’s Taphouse in Baltimore. The beer had a cloudy, straw-gold color with an average-sized white head with short retention and modest cling. It had a strong floral and raspberry aroma with a bit of grassy and grainy tones mixed with wheat and yeast. The taste was a sweet, fruity raspberry mix with some sourness too. It had decent carbonation, was a bit dry and had an average-sized body.

Wheat water. If you did not see the bottle you would think your drinking Dos Equis. Taste just like it with a light touch of rasberries. In fact this would taste better if it had more rasberries in it. Wheat water, blah.