New Glarus Wisconsin Belgian Red

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

Jan. 2006 - I don’t really like fruity beers. They should either taste like beer with just a TAD of fruit or be so fruity that you can barely tell that it is a beer. This fell in the latter category. Aroma and flavor was like fizzy cherry soda, maybe a touch of wheat thrown in.

BBB63, thanks so very much for sending me this beer in out first trade! What was that, 7 months ago?

Rating # 395
Well smack my ass and call me Sally, this was one of the most delicious dessert beers I have ever had, and my girlfriend says Belgian Red it is now her Favorite beer of all time, but the single 750ml bottle was not enough for her.
Pours with a pale and foggy mahogany and crimson body, then amassing a frothy cloud with a sailors red sky delight behind it. - The aroma is so enticingly delicious that it is almost discussing. Jars of syrupy Maraschino Cherry’s and cinnamon fill the aroma. The use of a caramel malt brings it’s likeness as well as notes of vanilla to the sautéed to caramelized cherries. This beer has the most amazing tart bitter / sweet flavor, and woody oak company make this very much a Flemish Sour, but more of a syrupy sweetness here of a fruit beer. Spices to know end .. cinnamon …clove, sage, and some apple blossoms. Notes of apple ring out beside the cherries, as well as a yeasty, and toasty beady crust similarity. A light, sticky effervescence adjacent to the fresh tart country cheery pie make this a welcome treat for most any special occasion!
I believe it would be a sin to neglect giving a beer of this caliber world class scores- Truly a Delicacy!

pink cranberry color with a fizzy jet away head. nose of sweet cherries and syrup. fizzy mouth feel c a dominance of cherry fruit. not tart like i expected but quite sweet. almost like a cherry soda. is there alcohol in this stuff?

Bottle courtesy of theisti. Pours a cloudy pinkish-brown with a loose, frothy, pink head. The nose is amazing: Grandma’s cherry pie; not just pie filling but the whole shebang: tart cherries, gooey pie filling, and sugar-coated crust. Very nice. Light to medium-bodied and slick with a dry, tart finish. The flavor is of sweet, tart, round sour cherries and a light, dry woodiness. This is a damned fine beer. Thanks again for bringing this back for me, Tim! Don wishes to extend his thanks as well; he said that he thinks he’s in love. ;)

Bottle sampled with rudge75. and mnurda. Dark red in colour with hints of brown. Low to medium carbonation. Huge sweet cherry aroma with additional notes of vanilla, and some pale barley malt. Very large in the mouth with the cherries obviously taking centre stage, along with a bit of other red berry fruit. As sweet as it is, there are more dimensions than sweet fruit to this beer, with notes of vanilla and earth. It’s smooth on the palate, yet there’s enough earthy bitterness to keep things in check. Not something you could knock back a lot of, but this is one heck of a dessert beer.

GABF 2002: Awseome tart cherry aroma, smells like a fresh cherry pie! Reddish-ornage colour with a pink head. Nice cherry flavour without being too sweet. Very nice!!

bottle thanks to thirdeye11. poured a cherry red with no head....hey that rhymes, i do it all the time. aroma of cherry, syrup, just plain sweet smelling. flavor was cinnamon, cherry, and just plain sweet. body was medium slick with low carbonation.

No matter how many times I try this it never ceases to amaze me. Just the right amount of tartness, creamy and rich mouthfeel, that is wonderful with food or with desert. Fills the palate with wonderful fruit flavors, and just the right amount of carbonation. Beautiful!