Lost Coast Raspberry Brown

Brewed by Lost Coast Brewery & Cafe
Style: Fruit Beer
Eureka, California USA

Looks great at first glance. Pours a great deep ruby color with a thick, dense head. I was excited. I wasn’t too sure about buying a "fruit beer", but now, I had some high hopes. And then, it hit me. An aroma I can only describe as cheap raspberry perfume, the kind you find on sale at wal-mart or sketchy outlet stores. This couldn’t be my beer, I thought. My beer, mine, me, posikyle, king of beers; I could never be duped into buying a beer so horrible. But, then upon closer inspection, I saw a sheen (not unlike a diesel spill in a marina) splashed across the head. Well, I try not to judge books by their cover (or beers by their diesel-y head) so I took a big mouthful anyway. Big mistake. Big. Effing. Mistake. This is not beer. This is at best an amalgamation of cheap perfume, wax, diesel, and a hint of vegetable oil. Absolutely disgusting. I swallowed what I had on my tongue and poured the rest down the drain (I try not to waste beer, because, hey, there are poor sober kids in Somalia, but I made an exception for this one) and washed out my palate with a tall glass of water. Then, not more than a minute later, I found myself on the floor, curled up in the fetal position with the worse stomach pain I’ve had in a while (last time was when I went to El Torito and had their Queso Enchilada plate. Yuck.). Bottom line is, don’t buy this beer. Not only is it horrible, but it will attack you once it gets in your stomach. Absolutely terrible. I’ve never met a more belligerent beer in my life. I wonder if this is just some bad joke from Lost Coast.

Exactly as I expected it to taste by looking at the label... If the label had a bottle of raspberry syrup on it instead of real raspberries.

Smells of roasted malts, toasted bread, caramel and fruits. Looks Clear pale brown with disapating head. Tastes as it smells except with rasberry syrup and coke a cola. Feels very light and watery and has cabonation like a soda pop. Could use more body and authentic rasberry flavor.

Bouteille 650ml, courtoisie de Hogtownharry. De couleur rouge brune et claire. Nez fruité (framboises sucrées, traces de cerises), léger de chocolat et avec des notes de houblon herbeux, de malt aux notes rôties et de noix. Moyenne-mince en bouche avec un pétillement moyen-élevé et une texture légèrement crémeuse. Moyen goût fruité (framboises et notes de sirop de framboises, traces de cerises noires) avec de faibles traces boisées (bois humide) lors de l’entrée en bouche auquel se rajoute un léger goût de malt légèrement rôti (très faibles notes brûlées) avec des notes de chocolat noir et des traces de caramel puis en finale l’on retrouve une moyenne-légère amertume de houblon herbeux et légèrement floral accompagné d’une légère aigreur asséchante fruitée (framboises) ainsi que des notes de noix rôties. Post-goût moyen et plutôt sec, léger-moyen amer de houblon herbeux, fruité (petit goût âcre résiduel de la framboise), léger de rôti et avec des notes de chocolat noir.

Thanks to Homerwantsbeer for sharing a bottle. This beer pours a clear brown color with hints of red around the edges. Medium thin off-white head with decent retention, and stringy lacing. Mild raspberry and chocolate in the nose. Medium-bodied with sweet malt and raspberry flavors along with a touch of caramel in the background. The finish is short with tart raspberry flavor. Overall this beer is pretty one-dimensional and uninteresting.

Bottle from Ben’s in Reno. This one’s weaker than what I would’ve expected. Definite tastes of raspberry and nuts, but light ones.

cola red with medium small off-white head. chocolate raspberry aroma with earthy and floral hop notes. smooth soft body. has a dry chocolate toffee taste with a strong, but not overpowering raspberry flavor, with a light earthen nuttiness and perfume hop bitterness. its nice to have a fruit beer that is not overpowering or artificial tasting.

22 oz. bottle, from BevMo LaJolla. Pours dark brown with ruby highlights when held to light, creamy off-white head. Aroma of sweet malts with a bold berry scent, hints of brown sugar and roasted nuts, herbs and slight floral notes. Roasty malts and fruity with berry flavors that seem more blackberry than raspberry, a bit of earth, coffee and herbs. Medium body, gentle carbonation.