Sea Dog Raspberry Wheat Ale

Brewed by Sea Dog Brewing (Shipyard Brewing Co.)
Style: Fruit Beer
Topsham, Maine USA

Very Clear Gold Color with White Ring. Malt and Subtle Raspberry Aroma. Raspberry Bittersweet Notes...Light Dry Wheat Aftertaste. Increasing Dryness the More You Drink. Nice Session Fruit Beer.

The beer itself smells like raspberries, with not too much smell apart from that. The taste itself was rather fruity for a fruit beer, with the wheat beer taste going in the back seat. Pretty carbonated as well. Not really bad, but it is almost a soda rather than a beer.

Light amber color with fizzy head. Stong raspberry aroma. LIght and crisp. Not much wheatbeer taste.

a lot of raspberry on the nose with a hint of blackberry. mouthfeel is very dry and heavily carbonated. a touch of honey in the flavor as well.

Pours a clean golden color w/ a shallow, spritzy froth that dies quickly leaving only a thin ring of brewer lace. Smells like raspberry bubblegum. Light nectar w/ ample residual effers. Tastes like a raspberry popciscle. Sweetness factor is very mild. Finish is only lightly bittered leaving a cereal flavor that lingers.

once again this is quite fruity. raspberries are very present. too fruity

This was the third fruit beer we reviewed from Sea Dog, and unfortunately for it, we’d already reviewed the blueberry. By itself, this is a great fruit beer, but within its own house, it doesn’t hold a candle to the Blue Paw. It pours a medium yellow color with a large, creamy off-white head. Virtually no lacing is left behind the mostly diminishing head. Aroma is of light yeast and, invariably, raspberries. The initial taste is lightly sweet, ramping up to a moderately sweet finish with a very fruity taste with a long duration. Nice taste and flavor on the palate, as its light to medium body and lively carbonation leave us refreshed. Reviewer’s notes: "Smells like sour raspberries, not as potent as blueberry or apricot, they do fruit beers well, strong fruity aroma." Reviewed on September 17th, 2006.

Bottle. Stale grassy malt nose with lots of artificial raspberry syrup. Golden pour with a high degree of carbonation and an active, fizzy white head. Crisp, lightly sweet taste, malt with rasp somewhere in the middleground. Sweetish malty aftertaste. Light body. Not very natural and not at all alluring.