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Abita Purple Haze 2.55 818

Abita Purple Haze

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8182.55/5.02.55/5.04.75%34.7Flute
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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 pivo (2537), Germany
2.8 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
5/103/56/102/512/20
Nov 25, 2003  
Smells and tastes like blackcherry soda. Hazy gold color with a light disappating head. Some barley malt up front in the taste, turning to a sweet flavor - like Capt'n Crunch. Just ood. OK maybe there are raspberries in there, but this isn't good overall.


 kramer (2531), Sunbury, Pennsylvania, USA
1.8 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
4/102/54/102/56/20
Jun 27, 2008  
12 oz bottle. Pours slightly hazy straw yellow body with a very quickly fading fizzy white head. The aroma is a mix of sweaty grain, wheat, and light raspberry puree. The flavor is pretty low on the fruit with much more of that sweaty sickly wheat than anything. A little yeastiness and an earthy very seedy note on the finish with a lingering mineral note. It reminds me of poor quality wild raspberries where there isn’t much juice, but lots of those tiny grainy seeds. Mouthfeel is limp and thin with an excessive amount of prickly fizzy carbonation. Overall, not only is this a bad fruit beer, it’s just a bad beer period.


 jgb9348 (2515), Arlington (Pentagon City), Virginia, USA
3.5 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/104/57/103/513/20
Mar 10, 2003  
A nice smell, especially if you spend a bunch of the time in kitchen with some odd ingredients. A great colour which shows its differences compared to normal beers. The aroma of some Lavender flowers or even Violet emerges, even though the label only mentions an infusion of Raspberry flavours. Not a bad beer!


 OhioDad (2491), Hilliard, Ohio, USA
2.9 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/103/57/103/510/20
Aug 5, 2005  
12oz bottle from sampler pack - Pours light purple with a short head of the same color. Very odd looking beer. Aroma and flavor both of raspberries but not overpowering. Some wheat flavor comes through. On the palate this is light and airy and carbonatated pretty well. Not a bad summer beer at all. Probably the second best beer in the sampler pack.


 Volgon (2490), Manchester, New Hampshire, USA
1.8 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
4/103/53/102/56/20
Apr 18, 2002    Updated: Mar 11, 2005
Hazy orange with almost no head, fizzy mouthfeel, very weak taste, starts and ends slightly sweet finishes dry. This beer will disappoint fruit beer lovers as well as wheat beer people.


 KAggie97 (2485), Ugly, Hot, and Humid Spring, Texas, USA
1.6 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
4/102/53/102/55/20
Mar 18, 2005    Updated: Sep 29, 2007
Re-taste. I was very high on acid my first rating... anyway... Try to find the berry in this beer. It’s the new "Where’s Waldo." Watery, little flavor, and disgusting. ’Nuff said.


 robertsreality (2460), Minnesota, USA
2.8 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
5/103/55/103/512/20
Feb 25, 2007  
Light Amber Color with White Ring. Sweet Raspberry Notes on the Aroma...Artifical Smelling....Crisp, Clean....Sweet Raspberry...Even Aftertaste... Increasingly Dryer After Drinking For a While.. Overall..Just a Decent Light Fruit Beer.


 unclemattie (2447), Georgia, USA
2 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
5/102/55/101/57/20
Jul 18, 2006  
Had it on tap, at Copeland’s on Barrett Pkwy, for beerlamb’s 25th B-Day. Hazy golden color. Looks like a wheat. Obvious aroma of raspberry is almost chemical. very light tasting throughout the pint. Not worth $4.50! Not worth $2



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