Abita Purple Haze

Abita Purple Haze 12 oz bottle Recent bottling, sipped 08/-6. Medium pour in a pint glass. Poured a golden color with short lived 1/8 inch white head. Smelt of raspberries and slight hint of floweriness. Taste was pure raspberry on the attack and body with bland wheat finish. Short lived, watery and simple. Mouthfeel was light and fizzy. Overall, an overly simple raspberry beer.

Nose of tart malt with some raspberry esters; Hazy pink tinged amber with a small white head; flavor was tart raspberry with some wheatiness. Kind of watery body, Not great but it is my first beer from Louisiana!

The 12 ounce bottle poured a slightly hazy ripe apricot colored beverage with a small fizzy head that dissipated within two minutes and left almost no lacing on the glass. The aroma was dominated by fairly strong sweet raspberry fruit notes. There wasn’t much else that could be detected through that. The body was light with fizzy carbonation and a watery texture. The flavor started out lightly sweet and dominated by raspberry. This quickly changed to a pleasantly dry light tartness that lasted through to the finish which was medium in length and left a light alcohol warmth on the back of the throat.

Very hazzy peach color with a nice head of white bubbles. Strong respberry aroma. Wheat flavor with a very subtle flavor of respberry.

On tap @ Mellow Mushroom. Kind of pink in color with small white head. Aroma seems like bitter grapefruit and some sweet citrus. Flavor is a little like candy. I taste sweet berry flavor followed by some dryer malts and some tartness around my tongue. Good light weight summer day brew.

Bottle. Hazy orange body, small fast fading had. Tart fruity raspberry aroma. Slightly sweeter raspberry in the flavour, not much else. Average palate. Pleasant but fairly dull. Needs more everything as is often the case with raspberry wheats. Thanks Harry!

Sampled from a 12 oz brown bottle this beer poured a medium golden color with a small white head. The aroma is sour, tangy and sugary and is not at all good. The flavor is sugar and an almost grape like tangy finish. Not good.

12 oz bottle out of the bottle. Thanks to Ben for bringing this into the store...HAHAHA, maybe not. Aroma has a crisp wheat smell with an overtone of fresh raspberries. For some reason I am a sucker for these somewhat not very tasty fruit beers aromas. I always love the aroma and end up not liking the flavor. Like this one. Very tart and tanged raspberries taste is flooded with kind of a weird wheaty and yeasty mixed in with it. Fairly carbonated. Somewhat of a not-so-good bitter hop cleanse on the palate. Not overly impressed much with this one. Wish someone would’ve done something better with the name!