This is a summer seasonal beer from Schlafly. I've been holding on to this beer for over a month just to write this entry about it. When Schlafly first made this beer they had a problem of having too much whole Raspberry in the brewing. Causing the transfer lines at the brewery to clog and leaving a lot of sediment in the bottles.
This beer pours with so much head that I have to be careful not to overflow the glass. The smell starts off fruity but I'm not sure if it Raspberry. The beer has a pinkish color with a bright white foam. The good foam comes for the wheat in the beer, and the color is of course from the raspberry.
The beer has a strange taste, its fruity thats for sure but I don't know what plant it came from. Its got some citrus but again its not like a raspberry. As I drink more the taste moves from fruit to something unnatural. If they used whole raspberrys again I think some fruit went bad somewhere along the way. This beer does have the nice smooth wheat taste, but the raspberry just isn't right.
This is a beer that first encouraged me to start blog. I really liked it the first time I had it last year, but when drinking this batch and really thinking about the taste I started to notice how much I didn't like this beer. This beer does not really taste like anything fruit I want to eat, and really I have trouble finishing the glass after too much thought.
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