Gritty McDuffs Raspberry Wheat

Brewed by Gritty McDuffs
Style: Fruit Beer
Portland, Maine USA

Date: 04/29/1999
Mode: Draft
Source: Brewpub

Appearance: seeing the world through rose colored beer with a whispy head,
Aroma: sweet raspberry aroma,
Flavor: flavor has a lot of up front raspberry twang, some wheat character still shows through,

Aroma: 6/10; Appearance: 5/10; Flavor: 5/10; Palate: 5/10; Overall: 10/20
Rating: 2.7/5.0
Score: *4
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Straw colour. Lots of raspberry syrup on the nose. Watery, with vile syrupiness. Bad even for a mailed-in raspberry brew.

Pale yellow, small white head. Very tart raspberry up front in the aroma and flavour. Tartness lingers with the flavour of the raspberry doing likewise. Average to thin palate. Not a lot going on but mostly inoffensive.

A weak yellow with an off-white, pink tinged head that is small and quickly fleeting. No lacing, rather filtered looking. Aroma smells of light hay, wheat dryness and light raspberry syrup, though not very sweet at all. Flavor begins with a rather insipid raspberry flavor, followed by too much wheat dryness and a sourish, strange, muddled yeast character. Lightly acidic, yet it has very little malt and in a general sense, very little of anything. Gets watery and tiresome very quickly. Body is light, mouthfeel is overcarbonated but watery on end. It’s examples like this that give the style a bad name.

(Draught) Sampled at Gritty McDuffs Brewpub in Freeport, Maine. Thin. Jammy raspberry nose - artificial aroma. Rather sweet flavour. Below par...

Draught @ Freeport outlet. Billed as "Raspberry Light" and is a variation of the Sebago Light, not a wheat beer. Very clear. Raspberry soda children’s drink smell. All manner of fruitiness disappears in the flavors and ends with slight hop reminiscent of a generic light lager. Very thin, lacking any layers or complexity. Some grain flavors simple, but clean. Raspberry is almost an afterthought. Grandma beer.

On tap a the pub... Aroma:Light fruity nose... Appearance:Clear gold,light head... Flavor:good raspbery flavor...

Straw yellow colour w/ reddish hue. Raspberry nose more toward syrup than fruit. Very thin body. Raspberry flavour (obviously), though again syrupy. Bitter finish that was overpowering. Unbalanced.