New Glarus Wisconsin Belgian Red

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

Pours a slightly cloudy brownish red, with a light pink-foam head with poor retention. Aroma is fresh cherries & black forest cake (probably kirsch). Holy fresh cherries, Batman! Montomrency, sweet and syrupy. Lightly tart, but not puckering - overwhelmingly fresh - just a note of dijon mustard? Good carbonation, lightly creamy, coats the throat very well. Wow! What a treat this was to try. Fresh, tasty, sweet, many thanks to my secret Festivus santa, Ughsmash!

Amazing flavor of cherries is blasting out. Tastes like fresh cherry pie. I may have had a skunky bottle, but the nose was slightly smelling of wet cardboard. Overall i enjoyed it immensely and hope the second bottle i have smells better.

not too much in to fruity beers but this one is in another league. from the first whiff i knew i was about to taste something like i’ve never before. kinda reminded me of a jones soda since there was no alcohol presence. well done

Huge sweet and sour flavors of cherries, no alcohol which is nice and some malts. Very good.

Easy enough to make a sweet fruit beer enjoyable, and this certainly was enjoyable. Nose of sweet cherries and tart fruit; people with me kept saying cranberry juice. Lovely hazy reddish color with a small head. Taste of sweet cherries, lightly malted, could use more offsetting bitterness, and a sourness that might also have come from the cherries or some lambic activity. Average mouth feel, not cloying or syrupy as I had feared. Maybe a bonus point for being low alcohol. Easy to get a high rating with a sweet fruity beer, but this one was nice.

Pours ruby red with a one-finger light head with red highlights. Smell is all cherries, this is going to be good.....on to the drinking: Tastes incredible with tart cherries and a medium mouthfeel with just the right level of carbonation. I’m going to have to drink this one slowly, a real treat. Putting this in my top 5 beers, would love to have more.

[1000-20071223] 1pt9.4floz (c/o GregClow, w/ him, jerc). Super red sweet cherry pie aroma. Cloudy, dark bright red body with a long-lasting off-white head. Sweet cherry pie continues in the flavour along with tart cherry skins in the background. Medium body has a tart finish. Lingering on this simply allows even more exceptional characteristics to reveal themselves.

Other notes: Just before this bottle, we had been rating a superb <A HREF=http://www.ratebeer.com/beer/ottos-jolly-roge Roger Imperial Stout (c/o boboski) and had decided on a whim to see what would happen if we mixed a little of the Red and the Roger together... The two beers on their own are lovely, lovely beverages, but together they made a remarkably memorable experiment for a cherry imperial stout...
Lastly, yay 1000 ratings! That was pleasantly unexpected. I should definitely thank the Toronto boys for letting me join in with them this past year -- now I’m totally hooked and it’s all your fault, jerc. ;)

Courtesy of Dragonstout. Pours a opaque red with a white head. Has huge hints of cherries. Alcohol not present. Seemed like a fruit juice more than a beer. Finished refreshing and clean on the tongue. Great for a fruit beer.