Abita Purple Haze

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

From a 12-oz bottle shared with joebrew, pours a murky grayish brown brew with a spritzy off white head that dissolves quickly to a thin film and ring. Aroma of light sour berries, light multi-grain malt with something that reminded me of Haley’s M-O. Taste is highly carbonated, light with a distinct flavor of watered down blueberries and raspberries. Finish is slightly tart at first and then flat.

Pours a hazy almost pink grapefruit tinged hue, with almost no head. Kind of offfensive nose with hints of grainy malt and rasberry seeds, almost an earthy dirt aroma. Nice semi-tart rasberry flavor on the front palate, followed by heavy carbonation, and lack of any decernable flavors. Finish is fairly dry and actually lasts a decent period of time. Not really a lot going on here.

Bottle, notes...Why? This is a nice brewery, so why this? A sour, tart taste...mostly a citrus instead of berry nose. Sticky aftertaste. If you want a wheat, try something else.

Bottle- big carbonation, fairly tart. a slightly better than average raspberry wheat.

Pretty good. Nice aroma of berries. Flavor of berries too. Nice and refreshing.

Tastes a little sour for a wheat. Nice nose to it though. Carbonation bites the tongue.

Draft at brewery. I’m drinking raspberry punch. I don’t like beer that is this sweet.

Poured from a bottle. Nice initial head...Has nice carbonation and I like the haze in the glowing brew. Did not smell as sweet as I first thought. This has a real nice aroma, slight raspberry and spice...in the back round I a catching a little tobacco...Nice flavor...again not too sweet, with a nice Rasp. twinge in the end. I have not had many fruit beers...but this is the best I have had thus far.