Mishawaka Raspberry Wheat

Brewed by Mishawaka Brewing Company
Style: Fruit Beer
Mishawaka, Indiana USA

Date: 08/19/2007
Mode: Bottle
Source: Tasting, Ticker Tasting

hazy dark yellow, creamy white head, lots of tiny bubbles, plenty of drippy lace, strong tart raspberry aroma with a touch of sweetness, light tart flavor with a good combination between wheat and raspberry tartness, just a hint of raspberry other than the tartness, dry finish,

Aroma: 6/10; Appearance: 7/10; Flavor: 5/10; Palate: 5/10; Overall: 9/20
Rating: 2.7/5.0
Drinkability: 6/10
Score: *4

Pours a transparent effervescent bronze with an airy white head. Aroma of fresh, sweet sugary raspberries and a touch of pale malt. Body starts with s light malty sweetness and decent fruity raspberry character with some tart fruity balance toward a fairly clean, bittersweet finish. The raspberry flavor is pretty well done here.

Courtesy of stfun. Pours amber and hazy with a white head. Smells of raspberries. Tastes of tarte fresh raspberryes. Not much else to say. The raspberries are at the forefront and taste like fresh raspberries in a wheat beer. Very nice!

From the commercial description: A delightful blend of raspberries and wheat beer with a bright raspberry color and just a hint of raspberry flavor and aroma.
The first problem that I have with that is that it isn’t bright raspberry in color. Held up to natural light, it displays a slightly hazy straw body with mayhaps a tinge of pink. Nice head, though.
The second problem is that it doesn’t have a "hint" of raspberry in the aroma. It has a strong, cloyingly sweet artificial candy raspberry aroma.
The third problem is in the flavor - candy all the way except for a lemony wheat tartness that appears in the finish.
Still, it has a good beat and you can dance to it....

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Draft sampler at MBC. Reddish/orange color with a medium white head that diminished quickly. Moderate raspberry aroma. Light body with fruity unfiltered texture. Moderate raspberry flavor with a medium sweet finish.

On tap at brewery: A hazed red hue with a fizzy pink head and good lace. The aroma has the raspberry dominate with just a hint of grassy hops. The flavor is mostly raspberry twang supported by a soft sweet and grainy malt bill. Almost anything else is not detectable, where is the wheat? The feel is watery and thin, fizzy. A weak attempt even for a fruit beer. Not terrible just so very under average and quite boring after just a few sips. It is not good when the best part of the beer is the appearance.

Hazy red pour with a small whitish-pink head. Very sweet raspberry aroma with not a lot else in there. Very watery mouthfeel. Flavor was slightly sweet and slightly tart, but just weak all around. The raspberry flavor also appeared to be strikingly artificial. This was also super-weak on the finish.

This bottle brew poured a medium sized head of foamy finely sized light pink colored mostly lasting bubbles that left behind a minimal lacing. The body was a softly carbonated transparent brown colored one with swirls of brwon sediment floating in it. The aroma was very nice and with a strong raspberry fruity smell. The mouth feel was bubbly and tingly yet smooth from start to finish. It reminded me of a wine cooler. Very refreshing. The flavor was all fruity raspberry and malt.