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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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8072.54/5.02.55/5.04.75%34.9Flute
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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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 Bigassfish (140), Naperville/Chicago, Illinois, USA
2.6 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
5/103/55/103/510/20
Apr 10, 2006  
Pours golden yellow with white head. slightly sweet aroma with wheat. I agree with stoutlover72, i’m not sure this is a fruitbeer. I mostly taste wheat with a slight sweetness. I slightly taste rasberries maybe, but i could just be imagining it. this is easy to drink and better than any macro


 GG (1612), NorCal, California, USA
2.5 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
5/103/54/103/510/20
Apr 7, 2006  
Not something I buy with any regularity, I found this to be just slightly below average. It really didn’t have much aroma, but what there was, was slightly sweet and not much else. Appearance wasn’t bad, but nothing extraordinary and definitely nothing "purple" about it. Mouthfeel was definitely lighter in body. Flavor was yeasty like a wheat cracker, but I didn’t get anything on the palate that would make me think this had raspberries in it. Perhaps they waved a bucket of raspberries over the fermenter and called it a fruit beer. I don’t know, and don’t care. I didn’t really care for it enough to enjoy nor did I care enough to hate it.


 mynameisjonas (206), Grand Rapids, Michigan, USA
4.2 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
9/104/59/104/516/20
Apr 6, 2006  
very good flavor. nice rasberry kick to it. overall a good beer. even non-beer drinkers like the flavor


 argo0 (6842), Washington DC, USA
2.1 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
4/103/54/102/58/20
Mar 24, 2006  
(12oz bottle) Lightly hazed amber body with medium off-white head. Aroma is medium sweet, artificial berry, some tin (that fades as it warms), cereal. Taste is medium sweet, artificial berry, light metallic. Light-medium body with some syrup.


 michael-pollack (2601), King of Prussia, Pennsylvania, USA
2.6 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/103/54/103/510/20
Mar 24, 2006  
12oz. Bottle: Smells of berries and sugar. No noticible hop or malt scent. Just like raspberry jelly. Poured hazy, opaque, amber with shades of purple. Looks a bit like dark grapefruit juice. Large frothy head diminished quickly. No lacing. Tastes like someone stirred raspberry jelly into a wheat beer, rather than having brewed with raspberries. A bit wheaty. Medium sweet. No finish or lasting flavor. Light bodied. Average carbonation. Probobly the only time I will drink this one.


labattfreak (58), Coldwater, Michigan, USA
3.2 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
3/104/57/104/514/20
Mar 19, 2006  
Not much of an aroma, but it was a pretty color. had a really good raspberry flavor.


 patrick767 (2016), fort wayne, Indiana, USA
2 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
5/102/54/102/57/20
Mar 15, 2006  
bottle - Pours cloudy yellow with a hint of pink. Thin head. Smells lightly of raspberries. The taste is like a bad pale lager with some raspberry flavor. It’s also way too thin. The finish is light and uninteresting, much like the rest of the beer.


 IPFreely (1470), Lewiston, New York, USA
2.1 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
5/102/54/102/58/20
Mar 13, 2006  
On tap. Hazy golden color, white head, kind of fizzy. Aroma of light wheat and light raspberry. It really is lacking, kind of seltzerish. No finish. Real light raspberry in the flavor, a little soapy. Light bodied and fizzy. Meh.



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