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Dark Horse Raspberry Ale

Dark Horse Raspberry Ale - Fruit Beer

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 Percentile 
32
overall
Brewed by Dark Horse Brewing Company
Style: Fruit Beer

Marshall, Michigan USA

bottled
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on tap
available

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 Ratings  Average  Score  ABV  Style Pctl  Serve in 
2202.85/5.02.85/5.04.5%59.7Flute
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Commercial Description:
A light ale made with 100% real raspberries in every batch. The rasberries give this beer a fruity aroma while keeping the beer balanced in taste. The raspberry flavor is not "oversweet" or "overpowering". We believe our beers should be "beer 1st,fruit 2nd".
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 Trev (849), Lakeville, Minnesota, USA
3 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/103/55/103/513/20
Oct 2, 2009  
pours pinkish amber with a medium creamy head. Aroma is berry and grainy malt. Flavour is also raspberry, though not overpoweringly so. Neither too sweet or too tart. Light malt finish.


 iabeerguy (158), Iowa, USA
3.3 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/103/57/104/513/20
Sep 28, 2009  
Smell of raspberries and it pours a amber color with a medium head. Flavor is grainy with raspberries on the back of the tongue. Decent beer.


 michael-pollack (2601), King of Prussia, Pennsylvania, USA
3.1 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/103/56/103/513/20
Sep 1, 2009  
12oz. Bottle: Aroma of raspberries. Poured amber/brown/slight magenta in color with a small, dense, pinkish head that diminished but lasted as a film on top of the beer. Cloudy. Sparkling. Full of small particles throughout. Flavor is light to medium sweet. Tastes of raspberries, malts, and grains. Light to medium body. Texture is dry but the dryness fades fast. Average carbonation. Sweet, raspberry and light malt finish.


 dalekliz (546), San Diego, California, USA
2.8 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
5/103/55/102/513/20
Aug 27, 2009  
Bottle. Pours a hazy orangish-red with a small bubbly white head. Fruity aroma, of raspberry juice and a bit of malt and yeast. Taste is juicy and crisp, of raspberries, malt, grass. Lingering juiciness that ends watery. Not great.


 cheapdark (2011), Monacatootha, Pennsylvania, USA
2.3 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/104/54/102/56/20
Aug 22, 2009  
Aroma is rather raspberry-ish. Cloudy almost brown and murky from the sediment on the bottom of the bottle. Does have that raspberry background on the initial taste but that is soon overidden by typical ale attributes. Seems to be much higher in the alky than the 4.5% listed here. Tartness is apparent but not the tartness associated with sours, its more like an unsweetened Koolaid drink. Decent carbonation for a hopped beer. Too much hops for a fruit beer and too much hops for a lager lover. Has a medicinal medium length finish.


 Goblincat (356), Westland, Michigan, USA
2.6 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
5/103/55/103/510/20
Aug 18, 2009  
The pour is dark orange. There is a fake smelling raspberry aroma, but not much else. The taste is similar. It’s not bad, but just can’t overcome a fake flavoring,


 kitschy (197), Nebraska, USA
3.5 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/103/58/103/514/20
Aug 16, 2009  
In bottle at bent river. Selected from the cooler of wonders, it pours rich amber and has only a faint aroma of berries. Very tasty. Perhaps a raspberry beer champion. It tastes like a well-hopped beer, with some raspberries hanging out. In other words, very balanced.


 drowland (1337), Tallahassee, Florida, USA
2.8 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/103/55/103/511/20
Aug 14, 2009  
Fine, but nothing special. Raspberry is subdued, mostly with hints of tart/sour on the sides and back of the tongue.



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