Spanish Peaks Honey Raspberry Ale

Brewed by Flying Dog Brewery
Style: Fruit Beer
Frederick, Maryland USA

Bottle. Cloying raspberry extract nose. Pinkish-orange body with a sticking beige head. Way overcarbonated with a little stale malt and a bready, raspberry-tinged aftertaste. Lightly tart with light bitterness. Audible sigh.

Bottle. Orangey amber color with a collapsing frothy white head. Prominent aroma of raspberry jello or concentrated kool aid, which basically overpowers any subtler malt or hop notes. Flavor of light biscuity malt permeated with raspberrry sweetness--almost approaching an alcopop in character. A bit of tartness and mild hop bitterness on the finish. Thin to medium bodied, with a slight glycerine feel in the palate (maybe from the honey). Basically over the top in its raspberry sweetness in my opinion, especially given the light malt profile, but for fans of that flavor it could be the ideal spring/summer ale.

Bottle. Poured a slight red color but see through. Aroma of nothing. Taste is some honey and raspberry but the most taste is water.

Much more honey than raspberry in the aroma. Flavor is slightly more of the fruit than the honey. It’s pretty decent stuff really.

Pours a nondescript amber hue with almost no head. Looks very boring. Fairly pleasant raspberry jam aroma. Raspberry notes sit on top of a strangely bready amber ale. Not exremely sweet and not extremely interesting.

Rather bright amber color, with a hint of red. Small covering of light beige bubbles. Not quite ripe raspberry, cherry tomato and fresh pasta aromas. Al Fresco? I don’t know. Raspberry extract and white toast flavors. Somewhat watery in feel to match the flavors. A very light ale with raspberry syrup.

Bottle sampled with Stegosaurus. Pours orange with a white head. Aroma of raspberries and sweet malts. Refreshing raspberry flavor, thin and light, but decent.

Pours light orange, small head. Light raspberry aroma. Raspberry flavor up front, but a very watery mouth-feel. Not all too exciting.