Abita Purple Haze

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

Serve in Flute

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12oz Bottle: Not the best, but not the worst. Not exactly what was expected either. Pours a sort of pinkish gold color, cloudy like typical wheat/hefeweizen types. Head quickly forms and disipates, was sort of pinkish though. The taste was very light and thin, with the slightest hint of berries. Honestly, from reading the other reviews, I would have expected it to be like a can of Hawaiian Punch, but it seemed to be more like someone let a Jolly Rancher dissolve in my glass. Overall, a very weak tasting brew. It didn’t leave any weird aftertaste in my mouth at least, but that would have been better than the nothing it came or went with. Disappointing. At least it was only a single and didn’t commit to a sixer of it.

Pours a hazy peach amber color with a thin white head. Aroma is faint wheat and berry. Taste is similar. Pretty thin.

One of the most UNDERRATED beers IMO.... low ACL. % but its light and tastes good... I don’t believe in fruiting my beer, but if its done in the brewery, I don’t mind :)

bottle to pint. Looks decent; a hint of purple to the otherwise pale-colored ale. Smells okay, but not really fruity. Tastes like a slightly tart, earthy, local brew raspberry wheat. Not bad, but not what I remember it being 12 years ago. They need to evolve.

Tap. Pours cloudy amber with a small quickly dissipating head and little lacing. Aroma is fruity - raspberry and a little grain in the background. Taste is sweet, with obvious raspberries and malt flavors and a mildly bitter finish.

Draught from a shaker. Hazy light yellow-orange. Aroma is very sweet. Taste has some wheaty sweetness and mouthfeel with some super tart raspberry. Overall a decent beer. Refreshing, but the taste has a "cheap" macro feel to it.

Birch spell. Strong fruitiness. Sour. Grapefruit. A lot of thin lacing. Raspberry? Pale. Clear.

A good, light, refreshing beer with a nice fruity aftertaste. Not too overpowered by the raspberry puree that is apparently added after filtration. A perfect beer for the spring!

Probably one of the first fruit beers I ever had but still really to my liking. Raspberry aroma and flavor are okay but there’s not enough beer backbone to make it interesting.

Aroma is of sweet raspberries and alcohol and funk. Taste is not bad. A refreshing raspberry kick, a decent malt finish. A bit too much alcohol apparent and something a little funky. Worth a shot, girlfriend loved it.

Eh ok for a raspberry flavored wheat. Not too overwhelming fruit flavor. On tap at 4th & Jane ---Rated via Beer Buddy for iPhone