The world's strongest fruit beer, brewed with Oregon and Delaware raspberries.
Beer Ratings and Reviews:
[1] Review by Chef Chad from Grand Junction, CO, USA who has tried this beer once. (12/29/2007 12:01:14 AM)
"I was suprised and Very Drunk after I drank this one!!! Great Sweet and tart aroma and a nice reddish head. I felt it was a bit to full bodied. Flavor was intense and way sweet. "
Aroma:
8/10
Appearance:
10/10
Mouthfeel:
6/10
Flavor:
9/10
Overall:
8/10
Final Rating, by Style:
(4.1)
Sampled: Bottle Sample Size: 750ml @ $20 Unit Cost: $12.62 per Pint
[2] Review by Sap from Tucson, AZ, USA who has tried this beer once. (12/27/2007 6:55:26 PM)
"Bottled November 2005, Sampled December 2007
Another beer that has been sitting ominously in the back of my fridge since I bought a bottle in its first 750ml release. The beer pours with a frothy, though thin, pale, off-white colored head. The beer is absolutely, stunningly, brilliantly clear and is a pink hued, deep golden color. The aroma smells strongly of raspberry cough-syrup, with just a faint wisp of rotten raspberry pulp. The raspberry notes are fairly complex, with a full fleshy, skin-like and even woody seed character to it. Having said all that, it is pretty one-dimensionally raspberry driven.
Not nearly as sticky and sweet as I was expecting, it is even somewhat light. The beer is sweet though, but not cloying and it has a clean raspberry flavor to it that is not nearly as syrup-like as I expected. Clean notes of raspberry pulp, mix with a touch of oxidized, sherry like, malt and only a hint of warming alcohol in the finish. The beer is fairly carbonated, which helps to lighten thing up a bit as well. Raspberry notes dominate the flavor profile, with just a hint of aged and caramelized malt character noticeable.
That slightly rancid aromatic note seems to pick up a bit with time, though it never really becomes entirely off-putting. This beer is not nearly as bad as I was expecting (I was expecting something more cloying and syrup-like), but it is not all that great either. Worth trying, but I just can't seem to get into these super high gravity beers. I wonder if an unfiltered version of these beers would be more complex tasting, cause that is really my main complaint. These come off tasting so clean as to be down-right simplistic in character."
Aroma:
6/10
Appearance:
7/10
Mouthfeel:
7/10
Flavor:
6/10
Overall:
6/10
Final Rating, by Style:
(3.2)
Sampled: Bottle Sample Size: 750ml @ $0 Unit Cost: $0 per Pint
[3] Review by KrazyKarl from Tucson, AZ, USA who has tried this beer once. (12/15/2006 12:43:07 AM)
"Pour is a vibrant red with a fizzy white head that dissapates quickly like a soda. Aroma is of sweet rasberries and a spicy alcohol touch that tingles the nostrils. Taste is to match, sweet and alcoholic; extremely robust. Thick and spicy mouthfeel. Took me an hour and a half to drink half a bottle but left me feelin' toasty. Another great aggresive beer from DFH."
Aroma:
8/10
Appearance:
5/10
Mouthfeel:
7/10
Flavor:
8/10
Overall:
8/10
Final Rating, by Style:
(3.6)
Sampled: Bottle Sample Size: 750ml @ $20 Unit Cost: $12.62 per Pint
[4] Review by Clash from Chattanooga, TN, USA who has tried this beer once. (9/2/2006 5:37:04 AM)
"This was one interesting beer. A big raspberry aroma with some alcohol showing. The flavor is sweet and warming with raspberries and not much else going on. It was almost brandy like in character. The alcohol is not very noticeable. Too easy drinking for the 18% so I advise you dont play around with this stuff or you’ll be on the floor wetting yourself and mumbling about aliens taking over your brain."
Aroma:
8/10
Appearance:
7/10
Mouthfeel:
7/10
Flavor:
8/10
Overall:
8/10
Final Rating, by Style:
(3.8)
Sampled: Bottle
Value of this beer for its style: Not Sure
[5] Review by biegaman from Toronto, Canada who has tried this beer once. (5/25/2006 12:42:34 PM)
"Poured a fizzy, orangy pink appearence, bubbles but no head - though it did leave somelacing. First impression is the 18% - yup, you can certainly tell its there - each and every one of the 18%, for sure. This is like a harsh and potent raspberry syrop that really burns. Raspberries seem authentic but not sweet, and the beer is honestly too pinsing and drowned out with alcohol to make it any way fruity. Aroma did evolve sniff to sniff though. Liquere like, actually very reminscent of a cognac and became continuously so as it warmed. Syropy and an alltogether different fruit beer. Perhaps slightly enjoyable (in a small dosage) but overall, flavours are scraped out by this burning cognac taste and mouthfeel is void of any finish or aftertaste. Where does this stand? Nothing in any way completes this beer. Couldn't tell you how this one would age, but I wouldn't be willing to try it. A neat one for sure, though I wouldn't revisit I was very happy to try - big thanks to northyorkSammy!
This beer seemed to hit the head more than it hit the tastebuds. A beer of this strength is hard done by to have any grace, and it doesn't.
Like other DogFish Head products, they've crafted this creative, over-the-top beer that I appreciate more for it's quality and creativity, than I do enjoy it for it's taste. "
Aroma:
7/10
Appearance:
8/10
Mouthfeel:
5/10
Flavor:
5/10
Overall:
6/10
Final Rating, by Style:
(3.1)
Sampled: Bottle
Value of this beer for its style: Not Sure
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