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Estes Park Longs Peak Raspberry Wheat

Estes Park Longs Peak Raspberry Wheat

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A Fruit Beer brewed by
Estes Park Brewery

Estes Park, Colorado USA

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412.59/5.02.59/5.04.1%33.9 Flute P  Stats

Commercial Description:
This is a fruit beer which uses a raspberry extract added after conditioning. The beer is unfiltered and should be a little cloudy. This is traditional for wheat beers. The malted wheat itself makes up 20% of the total grain.

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 agillespie81 (100), Denver, Colorado, USA
3.4 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
10/103/56/103/512/20
Mar 19, 2008  
Golden color......hazy. White, pillowy head. Very strong raspberry aroma. Slightly sweet taste of raspberry in the front. Mouthfeel has a mild crispness......finishes with a subtle malt back and a slight raspberry aftertaste.


 BlackForestCO (501), Fort Collins and Black Forest, Colorado, USA
2.5 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/103/55/102/59/20
Dec 30, 2007  
Poured from a bottle. Poured a light amber color with a thin white head. Raspberry accompanies a malty aroma. Sweet malt entry leads into an artificial raspberry taste that isn’t too pleasant. Lingering finish of artificial raspberries. Thin and watery, and overall just not very impressive, which sucks, because I like to support local breweries.


 Beaver (474), Fort Collins, Colorado, USA
2.2 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/102/53/102/58/20
Dec 20, 2007  
12 oz bottle. Pours a hazy golden orange with no head at all.

The aroma is sweet raspberries and honey with a little wheat and malt.

The flavor is some plasticy skunky malts with raspberry flavor and a chemical bitter finish. The mouthfeel is medium and watery with no carbonation.

Overall, this was much better on tap at the brewery. There it was very fruity and one-dimensional but decent. In the bottle, it’s pretty nasty. I did get this bottle from the brewery just last week.


 troyc (938), A ’moist’ county, Texas, USA
3.3 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/103/57/103/513/20
Nov 22, 2007  
(Bottle) Pours a hazy dark yellow color with a small white head. Lots of raspberry in the aroma, along with sweet malts. Taste is very similar, with a good creamy body and surprisingly full mouthfeel. A pleasant surprise!


 ChainGangGuy (1524), Kennesaw, Georgia, USA
2.6 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
5/103/55/103/510/20
Sep 13, 2007  
Appearance: Pours a pale yellow body with a bubbly white head. Smell: Let’s test this aroma out. Raspberries, check! Wheat, check! Taste: Raspberry flavor with a light, mild wheatiness. Though mild, it’s still hoppier and more bitter than I’d have expected from a raspberry wheat. Gah! There’s an odd, plasticy quality to the finish. Mouthfeel: Thin-bodied. Medium carbonation. Watery mouthfeel. Drinkability: Tackling a climb up to the summit of the real Longs Peak would be far, far easier than finishing this beer.




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