Sea Dog Raspberry Wheat Ale

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

Golden yellow with quickly diminishing white head. Aroma of raspberries and sweet malts. Mild taste of raspberries. A little chalky and astringent.

Looks exactly like their blueberry beer. I wonder if they make one ale and just add different extracts. Has an OK raspberry aroma with some grainy wheat supporting. Big raspberry flavor with quickly collapses into grainy astringency and with no supporting body. Has a chemical aftertaste. No too good.

Pours gold with average head. Bitter raspberry aroma and flavor, not much else... could have used more sweetness.

Of the 3 fruit Sea Dog beers I have tasted I like this one the best. The raspberry seems to mesh the best with the subpar wheat beer. This is the sweetest of the 3 I have tried. Again just to watery and thin on the tongue. Oh well.

Well what do you expect from a fruit beer. No surprises here. Golden colored, thin head and a beer with a whole lot of raspberries. Shocker. Leave this one for the females... Sorry but raspberry is really the only characteristic I can come up with. Tastes like he’s got a lot of carbonation, kind of like seltzer. Yeah, I didn’t really like it.

Obvious respberry aroma and flavor. Overall I think you get what is advertised, an above average flavored wheat beer.

Bottle - Nothing special about it at all. The aroma is all raspberry. Once again, the aroma is like a fruit covered waffle at Denny’s. At least it wasn’t too sweet. I’ve grown to like wheat beers, but too often, the fruit flavoring just overtakes the benfits of the wheat.

Light bodied, but not too watery. Light wheat flavor with raspberry flavor, but not too much. Not as sweet as I thought it would be. Lightly bitter finish. Highly drinkable, better than I expected.