New Glarus Wisconsin Belgian Red

Hook it up to my veins! Quite possibly one of my favorite beers of all time, the tart balance with a slightly sweet twinge at the end makes this an absolutely irresistible aperatif.

Aroma is spectacular and invigorating. Intense cherries. Flavor is cider-like. Very tart cherry flavor, but well balanced. Taste really dances on your tongue. Cherry flavor is not so overwhelming that its too sweet to continue drinking. Slightly spice/burnt flavor that is mixed with a bitey-tart cherry flavor to create a warming delicious drink that pushes the limits of beer. Highly recommended, would get again.

Bottle. Red body, small tan head, cherry nose. Tart cherry flavors with slight vinous notes and moderate sweetness.

Thanks to Estoppel for this magical beer. whoa- aroma that is spot on Hostess Cherry Pie. 1 lb of cherries used in every bottle. Amazing. Flavor that is complex, tart, and sour that is somewhat rodenbach esque, but way more well balanced, and not yeast ester dominant. Cherries taste great. Again, amazing.

WOW!!! this IS beer? my hyper christian family smelled this supper fruity cherry beer and had to try a sip and they loved it? I traveled from memphis,tn to Crystal lake IL(10 hour drive) then from crystal lake to Lake geneva Pic N Save to get this beer. ANd it was well worth it.Open the bottle and you can smell the cherries,I love the smell of this beer.pours cranberrrie red whit a white head.High carb,sweet and sour on the tounge.slight bitter dry finish leaving you wanting another drink.This is a unbelievble beer well worth the drive.

What can I say that hasn’t been said already? I’m not usually a fan of the "fruity" beers, but this I love. I was really lucky to get ahold of a couple of bottles of this. It is not sold in my area and that makes me sad! I will have to make a trip to Wisconsin to visit my friends more often.

pink cranberry color with a fizzy jet away head. nose of sweet cherries and syrup. fizzy mouth feel c a dominance of cherry fruit. not tart like i expected but quite sweet. almost like a cherry soda. is there alcohol in this stuff?

Sometimes you just want something sweet. You desire it, you crave it, and then you hunt it. And once you bite into that supine ripple of caramel or dunk your tongue in a fruity smoothie you reach a recognizably blissful nirvana for those first moments between mastacation and digestion. Then things sort of go down hill. Your blood sugar rises, you become feverish, and then the high collapses, leaving the nonplussed drinker in the doldrums. But it was worth it. New Glarus’ Wisconsin Belgian Red is like the sweetest of candies. Its tooth rattling sugar content will cause even the most dedicated sugar hound to ball up in a fructose overdose. We’ve come to expect this from sweet beers, even lambics, but the finest fruit lambics come with complimentary and complementary complexity. It might be a genuine fruit flavor or the dulcet tastes of berries not native to the beer style, but the superior side of these sipid, sweet suds are distinct from the careless soda-pop brews made by burnt out brewers. Which camp does the Wisconsin Belgian Red belong to? In a radical departure from all other sampled sweet beers, it sits right in the middle. There’s plenty of cherry flavor in this vibrant, coral pink beer, but is neither genuine cherry flavor nor artifical cherry flavor. The aroma piques the senses with Cherry Coke, cherry sours, cherry pies and cherry streudel, but nothing that squarely places it at the orchard or the candy aisle at 7-11. The taste flirts with the tongue, doling out valentines of subliminated, consummate cherry flavor with a gentle splash of apple, but lots of refined sugar as well. My teeth shake and protest, trying to free themselves from the crimson tide they awash in, but to no avail. My tongue begins to shrivel, losing water in the hypertonic fluid, and the walls of my mouth begin to develop geological sugar deposits. Before long there are developed sugar stalagtites. Enough is enough, and I quickly finish the glass. New Glarus’ paean to cherries is a stalwart attempt at capturing the raw, dessert flavor of cherry - the kind of macerated, gooey fruit we like in our cobblers and pies, but it goes a hair too far. Instead, the Wisconsin Belgian Red brews up a fierce cherry rampage, too dedicated to the candy quality of cherries to pay heed to their fruitier, mellower and more complex half. To that end, it is a sweet beer, satisfying the most ravenous sweet tooth with ample sugar to spare.