Sea Dog Raspberry Wheat Ale

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

Nothing too special about this one. Faint scents of raspberry in it along with a little bit in the flavor. I have had better. If you want a good raspberry ale, try the UFO raspberry.

Light yellow with a big fluffy white head. As is typical of beers of this ilk, way too sweet but the raspberry flavor is not terribly cloying. The wheat aspect is muted which is a ok by me. Smells like a wine cooler.

Pale yellow with a thin soft white head. Faint but artificial raspberry aroma. Taste is syrupy sweet medicinal raspberry with a light wheat smoothness.

Pours a light hazy pinkish brew with a fizzy head. The nose is sweet, lightly wheaty, medicinal raspberry. The flavor is similar, sweet raspberry with a light sour wheatyness.

12 oz bottle from Binny’s. Up to my bung in raspberry beers lately for some reason. This one pours a respectable amber wheat color without the scary pink tinge, at least. No head. Smell is almost all raspberries, but not too strong. Now the label says “Wheat ale with natural flavor added,” which sounds kind of weaselly to me. But I guess if you want maintain a consistent abv, you need to add the fruit after brewing. Razz flavor here is the mainstay, but there is at least a hint of malt, maybe even discernible wheat, underneath. Just about stays out of wine cooler territory, and can be pretty good.

Pours an almost hazy amber with a soft white head. Aromas of raspberries arrive even before the glass is close enough to sniff, with a very light background of wheat. Sweet, almost like a watered down soda, and without much flavor other than raspberry. Very fine carbonation makes for an almost creamy mouth feel, but there is not much finish to speak of.

This fruit beer poured a light orange colour with a quick lived, rocky white head. Scents include raspberries, jam and vinegar. First taste was sweet and smooth but watery with a sweet finish. Flavours of raspberry jam and light lager mixed. Thats all.

Bottle from Sun Devil in Mesa, AZ. Pours amber with a frothy white head. Mild raspberry aroma. Light body with mild carbonation. Flavor is grainy with sweetish, very light raspberry. Sort of a nothingness.