Dark Horse Raspberry Ale

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

12oz bottle. Pours pinkish orange with white head that quikly disapates. Aroma is sweet fruits, citrus and some malt. Flavor does not bring raspbeeries to mind. Flavor is some light fruits, citurs and some malts. This beer was disapointing as I was hoping for a crisp and tart ale.

Pours hazy gold with an orange hue. A quarter-inch head of white dissapated quickly leaving a few whisps on the surface. Aromatics lead off with some light raspberries and perhaps some citrus underneath. A hint of honey follows through as well as a wince of cherry. Light to medium bodied. Crispish with a slight syrup note. Carbonation is on the light side of medium. Raspberries, tangerine, and light malt start the pallet. A residual honey note follows through. Alcohol and hopping is minimal, and the beer is clean and fruity. Finishes with some lingering fruit essence and a hint of tart lemon. Nothing bad about this one, just nothing outstanding in any aspect. The fruit is not abundant or fresh, and the base beer is average

Solid artwork. Bottle well the color is about right but thats about all. Some fruit in the nose mostly malt, no real funkiness or raspberries in the flavor. A bit thin. eh.

This brew pours a redd-orange colour with a medium sized head. A little light on the raspberries and a somewhat softly malted mouthfeel. Raspberry aromas on the nose but finishes a little watery. Comparable to Spanish Peaks Raspberry.

Aroma had a lot to be desired. I had a pint on tap and maybe it was a little old but I could barley get any raspberry in the aroma, or even anything else. (malt, hops) Decent light ruby red color and small white head. Despite the commercial description above, I found it to be overwhelmingly fruit first, beer second. Not that it was unpleasant, just that the beer presence was lacking. Somewhat refreshing, but not a beer a would want several pints of at any given time.

Bottle: Aroma is rasperry. Flavor of same. Actually not that bad. Very drinkable.

aroma is really raspberry...flavor is not. strange beer taste, mild raspberry-ish, then a really off aftertaste.

Where they got the idea this was a fruit beer I don’t know. Aroma is underarm funk. No raspberry in flavor. Just a plain malt taste. Nothing redeeming at all.