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Abita Purple Haze

Abita Purple Haze - Fruit Beer

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 Percentile 
16
overall
Brewed by Abita Brewing Company
Style: Fruit Beer

Covington, Louisiana USA

bottled
common

on tap
available

Broad Distribution
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8082.54/5.02.55/5.04.75%34.8Flute
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Commercial Description:
Abita Purple Haze is a crisp, American style wheat beer with fresh raspberries added during secondary fermentation. Subtle coloration, fruity aroma and tartly sweet taste.
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 tomthompson89 (1460), Toronto, Ontario, Canada
3.4 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/102/57/103/514/20
Nov 19, 2006  
orange gold coloured, nice aroma of rasberries, not much head. sweet rasberry head but not too sweet, slight rasberry tartness. good beer


 decaturstevo (1971), decatur, Tennessee, USA
2.9 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/104/55/103/511/20
Nov 15, 2006  
A slightly hazed orange pour with a sticky lacing. An aroma of raspberries and wheat. A nice raspberry taste nabs you at first taste and lingers some to join the wheat and bitter after taste. I’m sure I appreciate this beer a little more than I would have a year ago. It isn’t a great beer but it is a good beer. Would I drink a sixer yep. Would I buy a sixer nope.


 pojo41 (315), Hattiesburg, Mississippi, USA
3.4 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/105/58/104/510/20
Nov 14, 2006  
Bottle. This is a dark gold-colored beer. Smell of raspberries is apparent but, not overwhelming. You can taste the fruit but again, it isn’t overwhelming. Very tasty wheat beer.


 bigbish (139), Colorado, USA
2.5 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
5/104/54/103/59/20
Nov 11, 2006  
Got a bottle at a cajun restaraunt in Bethesda, MD. Pours tan with a hint of purple/red. Thin head, smells of raspberries. Taste is crisp, with a raspberry flavor that seams a bit sour to me. Not quite as sweet as I would have hoped. An ok beer.


 Funknmilla (577), Phoenixville, Pennsylvania, USA
3.7 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/104/57/104/515/20
Nov 2, 2006    Updated: Nov 9, 2006
"fresh from the tap...smells like fresh crushed raspberies peach colored mingled with apricot and ruby red tendencies...the raspberries then engulf themselves in a blanket of subtle cream"-Funknmilla..."assocation with life savors rasp. & creme candy"...as thought by M.V.


 POD (198), USA
2 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
2/103/54/102/59/20
Oct 30, 2006  
I don’t like fruit beer. I don’t like fruit beer. Hey, did I mentioned that I don’t like fruit beer? Why? Because if I want something fruity, I’ll drink wine or a wine cooler. I don’t require fruit in my beer. With that being said, I am open minded and am willing to try pretty much anything as it relates to beer. Sample this from a bottle. Nice big white fizzy head topped a murky golden fizzy brew. I expected a big whiff of ultra sweet rasberry flavoring. Not so. Instead I smelled primarliy wheat and malt. Mouthfeel was medium bodied and watery. Flavor was watery wheat beer with a tart twang almost like a no suger added sweet tart candy. The aftertaste was pure bitter rasberry that was acceptable. For what it’s worth in the big scheme of things, this is the best fruit beer that I’ve tasted to date.


henryalvz (32), Tampa, Florida, USA
2.4 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
5/103/55/103/58/20
Oct 29, 2006  
Nice color cloudy medium golden. Very sweet rasberry flavor aliitle to sweet for my taste.


 blkitson (134), Westerville, Ohio, USA
3.4 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/104/57/103/513/20
Oct 27, 2006  
For a fruit beer, not too bad but I’ve had better. It’s rather cloudy in the glass and doesn’t really retain the head very well. After reading how it was made, I was rather surprised that the raspberry flavor wasn’t stonger. Maybe it would had taste better with a little Jimi Hendrix cranked up



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