Alley Kat Razzykat

Formerly brewed at Alley Kat Brewing Company
Style: Fruit Beer
Edmonton, Canada

Serve in Flute

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"Beer appears to be a dirty straw yellow to brown and way more chunks floating in then there should be I mean it looks like a handful of tapioca was thrown in. a sour powdery raspberry aroma with hints of flowers is coming up from the glass. Very dry taste with sour raspberry, wheaty malts and a extreme clean finish. Beer never gets to sweet or fake tasting. Ok beer to drink nothing to special."

341mL bottle poured reddish-golden with small head and little lacing. Aroma is sweet malts and raspberries. Taste is sweet malt balanced nicely with the tartness of the raspberries. Nice carbonation and light body make this beer very easy to drink.

Somehow, this stuff is quite drinkable! Pours out a golden orange brew that is a bit cloudy and is topped off by an ok white cap. My bottle has a bunch of large chunks sitting on the bottom - and those chunks have virtually zero substance in my mouth... how odd. The aroma comes across decent enough but nothing here jumps out to make you say "wow": candy raspberries that still have enough tartness to keep the sweetness down, mild malts and light wheatiness (is that a word?), The taste comes across tart and totally void of hops which is great, raspberry flavour wanders between real fruit and candy, mild, well balanced malts and a hint of wheat. I’d say that this is just on the thin side but can’t really because what do you really expect? Good tartness, no lagging thick sweetness, finishes strong on aftertaste but that only lasts for a short bit. A pretty good product from Alley Kat.

Bottle: Poured a light pink/red color ale with good size foamy head with good retention and no lacing. Loads of protein flake are also discernable,which makes this somewhat gross to drink. Aroma of lightly sour raspberries with no fake syrup is quite enjoyable. Taste is also sominated by some lightly sweet and sour raspberry with some malt also noticeable. A bit gross to look at but more enjoyable then I had anticipated.

Draught at Hop In Brew Pub, Calgary
Cloudy blond color; creamy head. It has a creamy aroma and flavor, with delicate raspberries, light residual sweetness and no acidity, and the bitterness is correctly low. I don’t fancy fruit beers, but I have to say this one is well brewed.

Last year, at a small festival, the Alley Kat spokesperson said this beer was being retired. I guess they weren’t prepared to let it go just yet! Bright clear burnt orange colour, decent short-lived head. Raspberry candy aroma dominates, but there is a sweet malt under there too. Unfortunately this came across as more raspberry candy synthetic flavour for me (I think I’m sensitive to this particular ester, because it really turns me off once I’m cued into it), however there is a bit of a perfumey element that at least made it interesting. There is some nice malt as well, making this drinkable in the end.

341ml brown bottle (fresh, Summer ’08 seasonal) Orangey gold colour, very light haze. Full white head, some lace. Strong sweet, candyish raspberry nose, though not unpleasant. Flavour has wheaty dry base malt udnerneath some sweet raspberry notes, faint tartness. Finish is quite dry. effervescent, light bodied, ok summer thirst quencher.

Brown bottle, 341 ml, purchased at the brewery on May 23 2008, savoured on June 13 2008; eye: copper, clear, no effervescence, quickly disappearing tiny beige head, some lacing; nose: strawberry, light malt, light caramel; mouth: strawberry, light malt, light caramel, strawberry’s acidity, finale in strawberry with a hing of malt, mildly sweet, thiin-medium body, a bit thin, rather carbonated; overall: correct FRANÇAIS Bouteille brune, 341 ml, achetée à la brasserie le 23 mai 2008, savourée le 13 juin 2008; œil : cuivrée, claire, pas d’effervescence, petite mousse beige fugace, un peu de dentelle; nez : framboise, léger malt; bouche : framboise, léger malt, léger caramel, acidité de framboise, finale en framboise avec une pointe de malt, moyennement sucrée, corps léger-moyen, un peu mince, plutôt carbonatée; en résumé : correct

Summer 2008 Edition... Pours a light amber with a thin white head... strong raspberry aroma, tastes like a light ale with mild raspberry sweetness... no hops... Very light malt taste... A nice fruity beer for the summer...

Raspberries and wheat malt in the aroma. Pale golden coloured with very shy, white, fully diminishing head. Distinct American wheat beer flavour with slightly tart raspberries. Body is medium but mouthfeel is somewhat lifeless. Bottle. Thanks Presario.