BrewDog Prototype 17

Brewed by BrewDog
Style: Fruit Beer
Fraserburgh, Aberdeenshire, Scotland

Serve in Flute

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I found the fruit overbearing to the point of giving it a real tartness. Didn’t seem to mix well with the maltiness of the beer. Too acidic, generally quite tart and unpleasant to be honest. Obviously not my thing.

Thanks to Palme for this one !

Head: foamy, white
Colour: gold, amber
Smell: sweet, flowery, bitter hops, gfruity yeast, bit of malts, pineapple
Taste: Start is quite malty with bit of fruityness, lots of yeat, touch of earthy hops, end is bitter, refreshing ...

Bottle. Pours clear, light copper, with a fizzy, quickly dissapearing head. Aroma of yeast, alcohol, rasberries. Tastes like raspberry lemonade with some vodka added. Almost a drainpour for me.

Orange colour with a quickly dissappearing head. Smells raspberry mostly. Tastes whisky, oak and fruits. Okay carbo.

Bottle, shared with Palme and Kai-Sindre, courtesy of K-S and BrewDog, who accidently packed extra bottles in one of his mail orders - cheers guys! ;-) Pours a deep clear golden body with a small white head. Aroma is mild malty tones with subtle fruity hints - no traces of berries or whisky here... Taste is typical smooth 77 Lager tones with some sour-ish fruity hints and a very faint whisky-like burn in the aftertaste. Still, these are extremely subtle flavors; if I hadn’t known about the berries and barrels, I would not have been able to say this was a lager beer with special treatment at all. A fresh and nice lager, but I prefer the regular 77.

Pours a clear golden with a tiny white head. Dry and slightly tart. Aromas of raspberries and medicines. Also notes of perfume. Dry malty finish.

A surprisingly colourful, pinkish drink that looks deeper in colour the further down the glass you head. A very white head indeed, that lets off plenty of malty, belgian aromas with a suggestion of sour fruit. It really doesn’t smell like it’s going to be my cup of tea... but the flavour was a relief. While it sounds like a ’throw everything at it and hope for the best’ kinda beer, it’s actually not too bad - predominantly nutty candyfloss from the yeast, giving way to a sharp fruity finish that cuts through wonderfully. Some rubberiness holds it back, but acceptable considering how badly I imagined this would go...

330ml bottle from Stirchley WInes. I like this. Nice raspberry scent marks it out as different and is a nice and clean taste. Bit dry on the mouth and makes you a bit thirsty whilst drinking though. Not sure about the whiskey casks as it a whisky drinker but well worth a try for a lager that is a it different.

Bottle from Brewdog
Amber...frothy white head...reasonable lacing
Aroma of cereal...hint of rye?...light grassy hops...slight saison aroma...bit rustic...unusual
Taste - pale malts...light bitter hops...some citrusy notes...hard to describe...quite a good subtle flavour
Palate - medium carb...medium body...moderate bitter...Finish - dry...bit puckering..some bitterness...cereals..some lingering bitterness...cleans well
OK beer - bit unusual. Had no idea what was in it when doing the review. Couldn’t detect raspberries. So that saison-like was due to the Belgian yeast? Oh, yeah.....

330ml Bottle - Golden with lively carbonation and a foamy white head. Malt, dried fruit and some yeast in the aroma. Hops, malt, nuts and dried fruit in the taste. A slight sweetness is noticeable. I had no idea this beer had raspberries in before seeing the description on Ratebeer. It goes without saying that I found the addition of raspberries to be rather subtle.