Great Divide Wild Raspberry Ale

Brewed by Great Divide Brewing Company
Style: Fruit Beer
Denver, Colorado USA

Kool-aid nose, but not bad. Rust color, fizzy head. Ale body, light raspberry taste. Tart(ish) end. No over fruity, which I appreciated in this one.

Red-amber color. Simple aroma, very light fruits. Nothing to tell about the taste; quite bitter. There’s no point here.

Bottle. Pink lasting head. Dark cleaar red body. Aroma of raspberries and barley. Smooth mouthfeel and raspberry flavor without the expected bitterness indicated by the aroma.

Actually pretty good. Dark red color, with a thick head before it lessens. Raspberry flavor, deffinately. Very decent.

Nice red - almost purple colored with a small layer of a head on top. Very fizzy carbonation. To no suprise an medium intense raspberry nose. Nice non sweet raspberry taste - more like a natural raspberry juice. A bit thin bodied. It is a good "I’m tired of work, let’s drink a nice beer in the sun"-kinda beer.

12oz bottle.
Pours a nice rosy auburn with thin pastel-pink head that quickly recedes and leaves no lace in its wake. Aroma is mostly raspberry with moderate hop bitterness and a generic graininess also showing. Raspberry flavor hits first, obviously, followed by a sharp hop bitterness not usually found in a fruit beer. These flavors do not integrate well. Raspberry provides most of the sweetness in this otherwise dryish beer where malt sweetness is either obscured or absent. Light body & mouthfeel with a thinnish tingly palate. Here’s a perfect example of a fruit beer where the two constituent elements would taste better by themselves than they do combined. Too many fruit beers taste like a stock beer with fruit flavors tossed in as an afterthought, rather than built as a fruit beer from the ground up. And so it is with this one.

Pours a hazy redish-brown with a slightly pink, fine-bubbled head. The aroma is big on rasberries and caramel malts, but nothing else. There is no noticeable hops aroma. The taste is a VERY artificially rasberry, and it has a nasty, sour grain aftertaste. I’d almost prefer a bud light over this crappy beer. STAY AWAY - waste of money.

There is nothing good to say about this beer. Huge frothy head that was nasty.