Dark Horse Raspberry Ale

Brewed by Dark Horse Brewing Company
Style: Fruit Beer
Marshall, Michigan USA

12 oz bottle. Not quite clear woody orange with a slim khaki head. Raspberry duck sauce and hay. Medium mouthfeel, light carb. Raspberry and mild burnt toffee, but never really sweet. Muddy lemon pith emerges to add some drying. Bitter, vegetal aftertaste gets metallic. My first disappointment from Dark Horse.

Bottle. Malty nose with a subtle nuance of raspberry. Hazy golden-orange with a fizzy beige head. Lightly bitter taste with citrus (lemon-lime) to complement the raspberry. Some sourness and yeast. Light body, sour aftertaste. Made with a deft touch.

Bottle. Light amber pour with a white head. Aroma of raspberry-flavored cereal...a bit of funk as well. Light yet concentrated raspberry flavor...sweet corn elements and some light malt. Decent carbonation over the light body with a slightlt botter/dry finish.

Thanks to Silphium for the bottle. Pours yeast-cloudy amber with a small head. Aroma is raspberries and malt in almost equal proportions. Flavor was malt sweet and raspberry sour, and not bad. Light body. Thin texture. Better than average for a fruit beers.

Not a lot in the way of aroma, little head. Cloudy orange-tan body. Mild, lightly watery mouth-feel. Good balance of raspberry and wheat characteristics with a lightly bitter, hoppy finish.

Bottle thanks to Sliffy. Poured a clear amber body with thin head. Aroma is of fresh raspberries and sugar. Taste is of sugar and raspberry flavored water. Odd balanced but found myself liking it the more I drank it. Decent palate.

Bottle. Cloudy orange-pink body, not much head. Raspberry and mango round out the fruity-sweet nose. The flavor has an authentic, fresh off the vine raspberry flavor. There’s fruit tartness and sweetness as well as that dry, bitter stemminess that you taste on the outside of the berry. Otherwise there are clean pale malts in the background finishing with dry ragweed-like hops. This is a good fruit beer because it’s not so damn sweet like they tend to be.

Bottle... Hazy golden ale with orange highlights and a small, frothy, white head. Acidic, fruity aroma; raspberry and citrus. Thin, soapy flavor... also tart, tangy and fruity. Lightly pungent, tangy finish.