New Glarus Raspberry Tart

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

Bottle from trade with kmeves. Deep red color, almost a merlot color. Nice thin head and AWESOME aroma. I am not a lambic fan, but this one worked for me. Nice tart fruit flavor with a sticky mouthfeel. Enough carbonation to make it not a juice/nectar taste. Nice framboise. (It also mixes nicely with the ST Choklat.)

Bottle, via trade with HogTownHarry. Pours a dark red. Raspberry aroma, a little vinuous. Flavor is smooth, sweet raspberries with a touch of sourness, but barely there. A nice beer.

Bottle: Courtesy nflmvp. Again, thanks Steve. Dense, ruby pour with a medium-sized light pink head. Nose of ripe raspberries, lemon zest, light malts, cinnamon and yeast. Damn this stuff is smooth, very full in body. Sweet and tart raspberries dominate the flavor with the same pie/cobbler-esque notes found in the Belgian Red. Very well carbonated, smooth as hell and a pleasure to enjoy. Absolutely amazing lingering finish to this. Great stuff and I can’t wait to get more of it.

Bottle. Pours reddish brown with a pink head. Aroma is straight raspberries, I’m thinking Kool-Aid. Taste is mostly raspberries, kind of like a raspberry jolly rancher, but slight oak and grain in the finish. Nice tartness and sweetness. Decent carbonation. Not bad, especially since raspberry is my favorite berry.

Thanks to Eben for this one. Deep purple color. A small light purple creamy head quickly fades and the bubbles streak the glass. Aroma is mostly tart, fruity raspberry. Raspberry sweet tart candy like flavor is dry. Spritzy, champagne like body. Delicious.

Bottle courtesy of Iowaherkeye. Thanks!
Pours a rich dense and hazy blood red with a lasting pinkish hued head in a flute-like glass. Smell is strong sour raspberries and sugar, and somewhat jam like. Taste is intensely sweet and almost as tart in the mouth. Very fruity, and drinks more like a thick raspberry soda or alcopop than beer, but still has elements of malted grains behind the huge raspberry sweetness. Strong flavor, and syrupy, but the mild mouth puckering tartness helped balance it out enough for me to really enjoy a couple glasses. Still easily one of the sweetest beers I’ve had, but I tend not to mind that too much.

Tasted at the 3rd Annual Woodshop Tasting. Thanks to cquiroga and company for throwing this epic session together. Very still, silky burgundy color that pours thick and syrupy. Absolutely amazing aroma of raspberry jam and fruity liqueurs, with some toasty wheat notes. Flavor follows up just as good, with more raspberry and strawberries, and a touch of grassy hay. A bit of grains on the finish, with a superb silky mouth feel. This is like a breakfast treat of toast and jelly. Nice!

750 ml bottle courtesy of mgumby10 -- thanks! I’ve wanted to try this one for a long time.

Pours a murky red-brown with a modest pink cream head. Aroma of raspberries, raspberries, raspberries, and yogurt cultures. Powerful raspberry flavors, quite sweet and very tart at the same time, some vinegar, raspberry jam, mild caramel as it warms.

I’m having a love-hate thing with this one, and it fluctuates wildly from one extreme to the other with each sip. I have no idea how to rate it. It’s too sweet, to over-the-top fruity; but it’s so great because the raspberries are so intense; and so on...