Abita Purple Haze

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

Aroma is light with a faint hint of raspberry. Color hazy gold with good carbonation and a lose head. Taste is light and clean. Starting with a light body it goes down easy with a crisp refreshing feel and a hint of berry comeing in. Finish is fresh with a very mild malt taste and a light berry flavor that has a tart feel on the very end. Iits a nice little summertime brew but its nothing special.

A very good beer for what it is. This is an excellent wheat beer with a nice fresh raspberry taste. Not too sweet, and not to snobby. This is a good drinkable warm weather beer. A score of 20 or below is very un just.

a difinite light purple haze. Aroma was scary at first. good flavor, probably the only thing i have ever liked with a raspberry in it. Seemed really weird at first, but it really grew on me. Nice change every once in a while.

Draught Cloudy straw pour with decent head. Raspberry flavor and aroma. Refreshing, but nothing I could do regularly. Good for the girlfriend.

poured into pint. pours a cloudy pale yellow with slight rasberry color. wheaty aroma, with mild fruity rasberry background. wheat thruought with rasberry, not overly impowering or sweet, but a rather good balance. a good compliment with food on an outside patio.

Cloudy red straw with decent off-white head / Slightly off, cooked raspberry nose / Light body with light finish / Restrained, fresh raspberry flavor over what tastes to be an indifferent wheat beer / Pleasant and easy drinking on a summer’s day.

What an abject failure this is. After succumbing to girldom and actually enjoying a Leinenkugel Razz (yikes!), I decided to give Purple Haze a try. Figured at $10.49 a sixer there was some value here. Decimal point should’ve been moved over one place. I certainly smelled the raspberries, but the taste was so watery I couldn’t even classify this as beer. There was no bitterness whatsoever, no carbonation, no anything that would resemble some yeasty, malty, hoppy, alcoholic beverage. Seriously, I thought this was flavored water from Kroger. Actually, judging from the way it looked, it may have been raspberry juice. That may have been the intent of the beer for all I know.

Pours a cloudy gold/orange with a white thin head. A nice light raspberry aroma. Taste of raspberries and a typical wheat. Not a bad beer for a warm day.