New Glarus Raspberry Tart

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

Bad Mutha Pucker! This is something you spread around to guests. A little too sour to have more that a small glass. It is thick opaque red in the glass, and feels as thick on the tongue. I really different beer.

Pours a very cool dark ruby red with a pink tinged one finger head. The head fades fairly quickly to a thin swirling cap and ring, leaving behind a thin wispy lace. Smell; there’s a huge tart raspberry aroma, which is no surprise, but there’s also a bit of a sweet sugary presence underneath that. Otherwise there’s not much else going on in the aroma department. Taste; as with the nose, and to be expected, there’s big tart raspberry flavor. A little bit of some sweetness come through the tartness, as well as a mild hint of some caramel and cherries. The sweet and tart flavors seem to flow back and forth very nicely, and make this probably the best fruit beer that I’ve had so far. Mouthfeel is full bodied, and leaves a thick coating in my mouth after each sip, and the drinkability is really good, as the beer is just disappearing before my eyes.

Bottle. Aroma is full of raspberries and tart. Extremely well balanced. Like the belgian red, but much fruitier and tartier. Phenomenal beer.

Bottle. I wasn’t necessarily prepared for a fruit beer when I had this, but I can still appreciate it. Huge and balanced aroma. Like the belgian red but fruitier, if that’s possible. Definitely worth having.

Bottle from Capones. I was a big fan of the Belgian Red, but this Raspberry Tart may have 1 upped it. I’m typically not a big fan of sweet beers, but I just love how it was balanced. It’s not Cantillon tart, but still I applaud New Glarus for stepping out of the box on this one. Good for dessert.

Bottle from Capones. Definite rasberry\fruity aroma pours like rasberry soda and looks a little like a wine. Very sugary ,tart and alhocohol flavor. It was good but got annoying after first glass. Not a bad beer but different.

Bottle from Styles tried with my friend Tete. Pours like melted raspberry jam. Thick, cloudy. Small head, but nice microbubble lacing. Nice raspberry aroma. Sweet. Good medium level of carbonation. Not as tart as the name implies, at a perfect level. A little on the sweet side, and this is coming from someone who loves sweet, so it reduces it’s drinkability.

Date: 06/18/2005
Mode: Bottle
Source: Tasting, Noog I

opaque purple, frothy pink head, huge sweet raspberry aroma, velvet raspberry cream body, huge raspberry flavor, just a nip of tartness,
-------- /> Date: 10/10/2007
Mode: bottle
Words: Logan’s Pre-GABF Tasting

lots of tartness in the rich raspberry aroma along with the raspberry candy sweetness, rich raspberry flavor, sweet and tart are in perfect balance,

Aroma: 8/10; Appearance: 6/10; Flavor: 7/10; Palate: 8/10; Overall: 16/20
Rating: 3.8/5.0
Drinkability: 8/10
Score: **4