Abita Purple Haze

Brewed by Abita Brewing Company
Style: Fruit Beer
Covington, Louisiana USA

Tap at Epcot for the Food and Wine Fest. Pours a cloudy orange with a foamy almost soapy head. Nose has hints of berry and citrus but not much else. Taste is very refreshing but extremely weak. Kind of like a very tame Hoeegaarden with a very very very slight hint of raspberry. This could have used just a bit more berry to make it stand out. Cause right now its very much like the AB Shock Top. Refreshing on a hot day but not much else. Nose is better than the taste and the palate is very thin. Decent but I’d not get it again if I had better choices.

This one has a light weat and raspberry scent. I loved the light flavor of raspberry as well, i just wish it was a bit more pronounced. Over all I quite liked it.

355 ml bottle. Pours a cloudy apricot with a decent white head. Fruity raspberry nose. Light spritzy body. Mediocre wheat base with hints of apricot and raspberry. Tad sweet in the finish.

pours a semi-cloudy dark gold with a fleeting thin white head. Aroma is wet straw yeasty aroma, grainy wheat and a hint of berry. Flavour is better than the aroma at least. grainy malt and wheat body, again an earthy yeast flavour and a recognizable rasberry finish. A little thin in the body.

Cloudy amber pour with reddish hues. Thick white head and minimal lace. Grainy aroma. Cough syrup flavor

Bottle. Good beer. Poured a hazy gold color with a thin head. Aroma and flavor are of rasperries. Neither are over the top. A little thin for the style, but a good brew.

Up until rather recently, the only Purple Haze I knew of involved Jimi Hendrix, tie-dye, velvet posters, and black lights. While some of us may not want to revisit those days and some of us may not remember much of them, Purple Haze from Abita Brewing out of Louisiana is a different story all together. I’ll gladly go back and revisit Abita’s Purple Haze any day, in moderation of course.
Much like her name, Purple Haze comes in a rather purple splattered 6 pack case with a funkadelic purple label. But, what’s in a label doesn’t necessarily denote a good (or bad) product inside. Thankfully, Purple Haze neither induces neither a lucid or catatonic state, but instead bursts with flavor and life.
She pours a hazy orange into my hefeweizen glass, making Purple Haze an unfiltered wheat beer. And not just any wheat beer, a raspberry wheat beer with a thin puffy head that releases soft wheat notes and hints of raspberry in the nose. A rather full body which still manages to maintain a refreshingly light and wheat beer profile. A hint of tart raspberry in the back of the palate. A bit of tartness and a light crisp effervescence compliments the soft palate I feel as I drink my Purple Haze goodbye. If I’m not careful, she’ll disappear without me noticing and then I will wonder if something funky is going on...as she warms, no real changes in the overall soft, full, lightly sweet character and tart raspberry bite. A fine flavored wheat beer from a solidly performing craft brewery. I’ve had a few flavored wheat beers over the last year or so, and I really have enjoyed Purple Haze.

Hazy golden pour with a good medium head that stayed a while. Aroma of wheat and lightly toasted malt, with a hint of berries. Flavor is grain and malt, with the sweet-sour berries in the background. Definitely better than many fruit beers, which I find to be overly sweet. The light berry flavor actually improves this brew, rather than detracts from it.