Wittekerke Rosé / Rosarda

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

Damn whatamyone else says I like this. It did make me slightly embarresed to buy it because of the pink can obviously marketted at women. Also I know the bottled version would taste better. While the can gives it a slightly tinny taste the quality still comes through. The flavor tastes natural, unlike Lenies which tastes like nutra sweet. However it is a little too sweet. If they water it down slightly they could challenge the Lindemans. All in all pretty good

BB May 2005. Slightly hazy orange color, medium lasting pinkish head. Aroma is sweet, sugar, some raspberry. Sweet taste, slightly sour, fruity of raspberry. Sticky palate. Actually quite drinkable.

Aroma of over-ripe raspberries. Pours an outstanding light red, with a pinkish head that last a long time. Sweet & tangy, like pure fruit juice with a beer chaser. This is very, very similar to Leinenkugels Berry Weiss. A little too tangy though. I got mine at the Grape & Grain in Mequon, WI.. Cans: 8.5 ounces each. At only 8 1/2 oz. drinking one or 2 is an easy treat. Any more than that and it gets sickening. I recommend giving this a try if you like raspberries. Something even better in the raspberry/beer department is Founders Rübæus. Try them both!

Had a black berry and raspberry aroma. Dark golden body with a hint od red. Decent head and good carbination. Good raspberry flavor and mild sour and tart to it. Carbination aftertaste of berrys. Decent fruit beer.

Bottled (BB 05/2006)
Hazy red-bonk, small reddish head. Quite fresh rasberry aroma, but lemonade-like. Sweet rasberry juice flavor, sugary (saccarine), in the finish artifical plastic notes. Harshness in the aftertaste . "Beer" for kids.

Pretty good raspberry aroma at first then got a bit too sweet. Flavor is watered down, tart and a bit sour. Flavor got almost medicinal towards the end.

The important thing to remember about my rating of this beer is the circumstance in which I drank it. I went to a show tonight. PBR was $2.50. I brought a six of this beer in 8 oz cans so that I could chug beer outside without missing too much. This beer is pink, it smells and tastes like raspberries and it’s fairly cheap. If it was served in a corked 750 mL bottle I’d hate on it til the cows came home. But as a quick and easy alcohol delivery system it serves its purpose. Basically, this is Abita Purple Haze in easy to drink cans. Feel free to hate it for being a commercial ass fruit beer, but love it for playing a role in getting people drunk quickly and easily. Brilliant marketing saves the day.

Smells like raspberries. A little lambicish in texture. Mostly though, the can and the carbonation remind me of energy drinks. Hard to think of it as beer.