New Glarus Wisconsin Belgian Red

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

Nose is dominated by cherry puree, mint, slight tartiness, mostly smells like xmas. Poured brownish red with a pink head. Tastes like a pound of cherries. Just doesnt taste like a beer, too much cherry, too sweet, very juicy. I applaud them going out and makinmg a VERY natural flavored fruit beer. This one just isnt for me.

From a 750 ml bottle this poured a very rich and dark cherry head with almost no head. The nose is very strongly cherries and some hard to identify spices. Very lively mouthfeel. Flavor is sweet with the cherries dominating. This is a remarkable fruit beer.

Cherries and a whole lot more cherries! Special trip through superior WI after breaking my foot to pick it up. I don’t pick up much of the oak, but this is a great beer. Even if I don’t care for fruit beers. Usually taste fake. This has more of a taste of cherry butter rather than a cherry itself.

Every once in a while, you come across a beer that changes the way you think about beer. This is one of those beers.

Pours a hazy redish brown with a thin head. Fresh cherries on the nose along with some spice. Sour cherries on the pallet with a sweet malt backbone and cinnamon in the finish. A great dessert beer.

Dark red pour with white head with a red tinge to it. Sweet, yet tart aroma of cherries. The cherry flavor is like taking a bite of cherry pie- flavorful, fresh, wanting more. There is a slight tartness just at the end. I must remember to buy more the next time in Beloit., a 200 mile round trip is worth it.

&50 2008 vintage (1 year old). Great fruitty cherry profile on the nose. A bit of a muddy red pour (even when yeast was settled). Sweet with just a slight bit of tartness -- a bit bitter due to the hops. A bit out of balanced with the bittersweatness. The hops are n attempt to rebound the sweetness. Just a bit too sweet. MEdium body with perfect carbonation. Overall: too sweet to take down a whole 750, glad I shared this one. I can;t imagine drinking more than 6 ounces of this as a dessert beer. If you want to know a summary of this beer: your kid couldn’t tell the difference between this and his/her juice box.

Bottle thanks to thirdeye11. It had a dark red cherry color w/ very little head. Aroma was of cinnamon, black cherry, and grenadine. Flavor was tart with black cherry, grenadine, and cinnamon. Not a fan of this beer!