Hurricane Reef Raspberry Wheat Ale

Brewed by Florida Beer Company
Style: Fruit Beer
Melbourne, Florida USA

The aroma is nice and fruity. I can definitely smell the raspberry along with some yeast and sweet malt. The appearance is a slightly hazy orange brown. The flavor is not bad but it is dominated by toasty malt and has very little raspberry taste except in the finish. The palate is somewhat thin. It’s not a bad beer but it falls short of my expectations since there is very little wheat or raspberry taste.

Big raspberry aroma. Poured nice. Tea color with a thick head that stuck around. Watery tasting. What flavor you get is in the finish and it is cloying and artificial.

Brown/amber sort of color, very cloudy. You could taste the berries, more like a darker berry than a red raspberry, it was a little toucher than sweet. It was ok but not that great.

This pours a brown-ruby with a very small and diminishing off white head. The nose is of raspberries of course, but they are light and less sweet than imagined. The thin mouthfeel introduces raspberries and light breadiness. The raspberries provide a subtle bitterness more than they do sweetness. This is a light, pleasant brew.

Poured with a small, white head that quickly diminished. Amber in color with just a slight haze. Strong smells of raspberry as expected, but also some citrus and malts. The flavor starts sweet, ends bitter, with a wheet beer taste but with hints of raspberry. Light body that was somewhat watery. Lively carbonation.

OK, I must admit this beer did not have a chance with me. I do not like wheat or fruit beers. But I tried to be fair and rate on it’s style.

Bottle pours hazy golden with a quickly diminishing white head.   Slight lacing, virtually no carbonation.   Faint berry on the nose, more berry up front, but as it finishes it becomes slightly acidic.   Flavor seems to be several berries and not just Raspberry.   It seems somewhat artificial too.   Just below middle of the road in my opinion.   Thanks goes out to BierBauch for the trade!

faint smell of raspberry; medium amber with a very thin head; the flavor is actually very good, with a definite taste of raspberry mixed with a touch of hops