Great Divide Wild Raspberry Ale

Different. Pours a beautifull raspberry amber color with a pinkish foam head that sticks around. Nose is very evident of raspberry yet a little sour. The raspberry is strong in the flavor but a bit watery. This beer is beautiful but needs a bit of work on the body. Have another? maybe onemore.

pours a maroon with a small pinkish head.
smell is definitely raspberry, sour, malt, touch floral.
taste is raspberry, subtle malt, and somewhat bitter. overall not that bad for a fruit beer.

THOUGHTS: Nice, but nothing special. It really is a beer drinkers fruit beer. It’s not overly sweet or artificial. It’s real fruit in this one. TECHNICAL: Bottle. Poured a clear, medium reddish amber with an average to large, slightly pink, off-white head that mostly diminished, but left fair to good lacing. The aroma was mostly raspberry. The initial flavor was lightly sweet, acidic and bitter; while the finish was moderately sweet, lightly acidic and bitter, and slightly sour with a short duration. There was mostly raspberry. The light body was fairly dry with soft carbonation and a light astringent finish.

Bottle. Smells like raspberries, tastes like raspberries. A pretty good fruit beer.

I like the observation below that you can tell the quality of a fruit beer by how much its color differs from traditional beer colors. In my experience that’s true, though to be sure, the New Glarus has a very robust red hue. In general, I don’t like fruit beers. Most are artificially colored and flavored. New Glarus, again, is the exception that I truly enjoyed. This was a pleasant surprise. I could drink this if someone served it in the hot sun. It is thin, a bit watery, malty, and plenty of raspberry flavor Some work on the body here would go a long way to improving ratings.