Wittekerke Rosé / Rosarda

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

Keg at new Wheatsheaf (though also available in the next door Katsjammers German beer cellar). Hmm. Tinned raspberries and raspberry ice-lolly. Sweet start. Good fun and very drinkable.

Brown bottle, 250 ml, best before 16/01/10, purchased at the LCBO, savoured on November 2 2009; eye: amber with a pinkish hue, hazy, average effervescence, creamy white head that turns into a tiny ring, slight lacing; nose: raspberry syrup, sugar, artificial aromas; mouth: raspberry syrup, sugar, artificial aroma, finale in syrup, medium-light body, quite sweet, sticky texture, slightly acidic; overall: once is enough FRANÇAIS Bouteille brune, 250 ml, meilleure avant 16/01/10, achetée à la LCBO, savourée le 2 novembre 2009; œil : ambrée avec une teinte rosâtre, trouble, effervescence moyenne, mousse blanche crémeuse qui se transforme en un petit anneau, très légère dentelle; nez : sirop de framboise, sucre, arôme; bouche : sirop de framboise, sucre, arôme artificiel, finale en sirop, corps moyen-léger, très sucrée, texture collante, très légèrement acide; en résumé : une fois c’est suffisant

250 mL Bottle. Slightly murky and curiously pinkish body with a creamy white head. Citrus, unripe fruits, and raspberries stand out in the aroma with notes of wheat, wild berries, yeast, and earth. BLECCHHHH!!! The unnecessary addition of aspartame in this beer ruins what could otherwise be a very impressive beer. Adding such a vile substance to beer ought to be considered legally a crime and the brewery ought to be shut down. Why? WHY does anybody add $h!t like that to beer? What is this supposed to be? Some new-fangled diet drink? This beer is a Belgian national disgrace as well as an international disgrace to the world of fine beer drinking. I will never again buy any beer that I know to contain Aspartame. ATTENTION BREWERS: if you really want to sweeten your beer with an unfermentable sweetener, try something natural like stevia.

25cl can. This hazy amber ale poured with a decent pinkish-white head and a sour raspberry aroma. This is basically Petrus pale ale with some raspberries added. Unless you are craving a fruit juice, the addition served only to cause the pale ale not to taste like beer anymoe.

250ml bottle, slight hazy amber-pinkyish hue, with a white head, yeasty, raspberry fruity nose, with some faint wheaty, honeyed pale malt accent, with a light acidic fieldberry, candy cotton aroma follows through on a medium-bodied palate with a crisp, spritzy, super sweet artificial candyish raspberry, pinkgrapefruit juice, bad aspartame sugary character, with some faint strawberry, candy cotton flavors leading towards a candyish raspberry finish.

Bottle. It’s a hazy pink orange colour with a tall white head. The aroma is full of sour raspberry, rhubarb, sugar. The mouthfeel is quite fizzy on the tongue and medium to light in body. The flavour is fairly artificial; there is plenty of aspartame with raspberry candy, lemon, light banana and wheat.

Looks like champagne with a head. Very pink as the name implies. Pinker then expected. Sour scent. Like sweet tarts. Way too sweet at first but that fades quick. Kind of synthetic. Tastes more like a cooler then a beer. Meh, not my kind of drink, but palatable.