New Glarus Raspberry Tart

Brewed by New Glarus Brewing Company
Style: Fruit Beer
New Glarus, Wisconsin USA

aroma of thick sweet raspberry jam. sludge like. appearnce is quite nice, very dark red ive never seen before in a beer. flavor is at least slightly tart. though i cant give the brewers too much credit since that is the nature of the fruit. palate is super cloying and sticky. i can almost deal with the sweetness but not how much and long it lingers. another waste of time from new glarus. there is absoultely nothing beer like in this at all. i shared this with my mother since she loathes beer. she hated it as well, and became amazed with the high ratings for this and belgian red. she searched through pages looking for anything critical but alas could find nothing. no thank you to this marmalade.

Seven-fiddy ml. Pours a beautiful dark ruby red with an emasculatingly pink head. Aroma is the freshest, most perfectly ripe example of raspberry you’ve ever laid your olfactory system on. Taste is gen-u-wine berry and none of that syrup crap you so often taste in fruit beer. I couldn’t discern the aged hops or get much of the wheat character of the beer over the overpowering taste of berry. Nicely carbonated and the perfect mouthfeel for the dessert beer this very clearly is. Splitting a bottle with my wife verged on overdosing on sweet/tart, so would recommend splitting with at least 2 other people unless you regularly mainline liquid jolly ranchers and snort rails of Pixie Stix.

Bottle... Poured deep reddish/burgundy with a pink head. Tart and sour aroma with a little bit of raspberries. Tasted of fresh, fresh, fresh -- did I say fresh -- raspberries. It was amazingly pleasant and didn’t taste artificial at all. You could really taste the authenticity in the quality of the raspberries used.

750 ml bottle from Noblesquirrel. Pours a murky-cloudy purple color with a small pink head that soon dissipated. The aroma is big with fresh ripe red raspberries. The flavor is more of the same, raspberries, raspberries and more raspberries. The finish is extraordinarily long with (you guessed it) raspberries. The mouthfeel is medium with a bit of a gritty feel, which actually worked rather well as I can imagine seeds in the mix. Overall: Wonderful concoction with excellent drink-ability, the only negative that I can think of is that its not very tart. Very tasty--perhaps the perfect desert beer. Thanks Brian.

Wax topped 750 pours a clear and radiant ruby body with a small and wispy pink head. Huge raspberry aroma with a hint of earthy mushroomy yeast underneath. Light body has a sparkly carbonation. Taste features freshly pureed raspberries, front, center, and finish. Just a hint of wheat malt midway through. Incredible drinkability. Tart and sweet, but anything but cloying. Excellent reason to travel to Wisconsin!

Bottle. Pour was syrupy rich red color with excellent aroma of raspberries. Flavor was rich, sour raspberries and funky yeast on the finish. An excellent dessert beer worth sharing, but I would be able to finish an entire bottle by myself.

Pours a rusty brown with a pinkish head. Heavy carbonation. Aroma is huge on the raspberries, and that’s about it. Taste is of raspberrries, with faint hops and oak. This beer is all about the raspberries, obviously. Taste is extremely tart and refreshing. I’m not big on fruit beers, but this one is tasty.

Bottle shared by ajm at the 09er. Pours a brilliant shade of amber that seems to glow. Bursting with the aroma of sweet raspberries which carry into the flavor along with notes of cherries and red grapes. A juicy confection, like something Willy Wonka would serve. Fairly one note, but that note is rediculously good.