Wittekerke Rosé / Rosarda

Brewed by Bavik-De Brabandere
Style: Fruit Beer
Harelbeke, Belgium

Draught at Sharp Edge. Saccharin raspberry syrup sweet. A little sour mash but mostly a very fruity sweet nose. Pink hazy body with white lacing head. Medium watery body with medium-light carbonation. Big syrupy sweet fake berry taste. Cloying and overly sweet. Can’t taste any other character in this beer. Cloying finish and sweet after that tastes like it had aspartame in it. Blech.

Hey! I’m drinking this out of a can…How am I supposed to know what it looks like (I’ll give it a 3 to be safe). Noticing the aroma from just out side the pull tab I get a musty, sharp yeast and alcohol scent. Not promising. The redbull like can spills its contents into my gullet where I find it to be a sweet, yeasty, raspberry, alco-pop. Funny stuff really. Wet carbonated mouth feel. This is not really bad, just not good.

ZBF2008: From tap. Pours hazy red/brown with a light pink/white head, dense. Solid raspberry aroma. Sweet raspberry, much like soda/juice. Fruity and sweet finish. Nice but more a sodapop than anything else.

Bottle. High creamy and lasting white head. Hazy orange to pink body. Lovely raspberry aroma. Raspberries flavor with a lot of sugar making it very sweet and a good deal of carbonation to to boost the flavor. Long sweet aftertaste.

ZBF 2008 on the Saturday This is a pink shocker, a bit like Barbara Cartland or a a pink poodle bloody awful and barely worth bothering with a rating still I will perservere. Pink fluffy head on dark pinkinsh body if it had wrinkles it would be a ringer for Barbara Cartland, the one difference is that she’s dead and this should just be put out of it’s misery. horribly artificially sweet, I’ve given this 1.7 in my notes I must have been getting merry.

Pours a ruby red grapefruit color from the 25cl can, with a very small light pink head that disapates quickly. Very spotty lacing. Aroma of light fruit, and light malt. Raspberry flavor. Very carbonated with no lingering aftertaste. The best thing about it is, I can ride around as a passanger, and the cops would think I was drinking an energy drink.

25 cl aluminum can. Brilliant raspberry aroma. Hazy reddish tinged amber color with a fizzing white head that ringed rapidly. Thin in body with mild fizzy carbonation. The flavors are raspberry and raspberry seed. Perhaps wheat can be detected. Perhaps a touch of oak as well. It’s really very tasty, and should go well with a number of foods. The finish is milder raspberry with a bit more recognizable wheat. All in all it’s a good drink.

Draft @ The Wharf, Aalborg. Raspberry, raspberry, raspberry, raspberry! Pours pinkish orange with a dense white head. Nice lacing. Aroma is almost all raspberry – only a remote sourish beery touch. But I like raspberries so that’s okay. Flavour is also raspberry, but a tad cloying here. Perfumy. A bit watery finish, but still with lingering raspberry. Raspberry! 24-01-08.