Arcadia Berry Whit

Brewed by Arcadia Brewing Company
Style: Fruit Beer
Battle Creek, Michigan USA

bottle - Pours a ridiculously huge head. I was able to keep from losing any beer as the bottle didn’t overflow on me like some experienced, but it took several stages to finish pouring this beer. It’s pink with a mess of small yeast floaters. The head leaves some lacing. The aroma is very much of raspberry with some yeast in there as well. The flavor is dominated by raspberry. It’s sweet with some mild hops in there that comes through more in the finish. It’s light and refreshing, but avoids being watery, unlike a couple other raspberry wheats beers I’ve had recently. It’s far from my favorite style, but really this brew is a pretty good fruit beer.

Poursa cloudy amber hue with a frothy white head. Aromas of wheat/dough, cheese, bread. Light bodied with a light btterness and a mild spice. Flavors of copper with a lingering finish

Just OK fruit beer. The raspberry flavor was somewhat syrupy...not very natural. The whole thing seemed a bit cloying, but not offensively so. Some grassy wheat aspects noticed as well. Not horrible, but nothing I’d repeat.

Murky copper color with disconcerting floaties in it. This bottle was very carbonated. It was all I could do to pour it into the glass, and while my back was turned the foam extruded out of the top of the bottle. The aroma didn’t bother me too much. It was not as artificial as most, and it was like berry scented cotton candy. This is a very sweet beer, with lots of white sugar, and a berry flavor like the syrup that they use to make snow cones. The over-carbonation was distracting on the tongue. A little bit of this goes a long way.

Chunks floating around. Another beer that is very fizzy. But an overly forced fizzy like a pop. Don’t like. Sweet sugar cookie pie crust. Thin mouthfeel; nothing interesting.

I’m sorry, but the fruit flavoring was just way too artificial tasting for me, regardless of their using a raspberry puree. The nose and the taste were like overly sweet candy. Looks nice, a dark amber with a tall, well sustained off-white head.

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Pours amber with off white head. Aroma very muted not much berry at all, just some light yeasty wheat. Very sweet from front to back. Very exract like. Lots of residuel sugar. Not much wit character.

Bottle from Belmont Package In Fort Wayne. Poured hazy amber with average frothy off-white head. Average aroma of wheat and raspberry. Medium body with sticky texture. Heavy sweet raspberry flavor with a good finish.