New Glarus Raspberry Tart

Brewed by New Glarus Brewing Company
Style: Fruit Beer
New Glarus, Wisconsin USA

Serve in Flute

Shared bottle with Timfoolery. Poured a dark red color and of course, smelled of raspberries. I could drink a ton of this and probably forget theres alcohol in it. Great fruit beer.

Absolutely delicious. The name Raspberry Tart says it all. It literally makes my mouth water. Champagne-like mouth feel. Very good sparkling fruit ale.

Poured from a bottle into a becher. Beer is about what you expect as far as color, looks red and hazy, forms a white head made up of medium to small bubbles. Head falls away leaving lacing on the glass. Beer looks good. Aroma is full of raspberries and sweetness. Beer is sweet and full of tartness from the raspberries. Medium to low body, lots of carbonation on the palate. Sweetness is up front and the tart is in the back of the mouth. Beer finishes rather cleanly and there is no aftertaste. Its a very pleasant experience and I love drinking this beer. If raspberries are your thing, I would check this out totally. Drinkability high, good mouthfeel.

750 mL bottle. Pours a coppery, slightly pink color, with an off-white head mixing orange and pink. Raspberry aroma, some funkiness, light tartness. Juicy raspberry flavor mixes with toasty malts, some tartness. Juiciness makes it seem sweeter than it actually is. Quite well done, nicely balanced.

25oz bottle. I’ve had this one many times, cracked the most recent at new years. Pours a beautiful light red hue, rich raspberry tones with a pink frothy head. Aromas are ripping ripe raspberries with a hint of acidity making my nose dance. Palate is very light as the ABV indicates and the fruit hitting right up front spreading through the mid and the tartness hitting the edges gracefully. It’s like candy, really delicious.

(Bottle) Pours red with small off-white head. Authentic and fresh aroma of raspberries. Reminds me a bit of raspberry pie and Swedish fruktkräm. The nose doesn’t have much that reminds me of beer, maybe a touch of malt. The flavour is near medium sweet and light acidic. No bitterness. The mouthfeel is light sticky and juicy with a light carbonation. Light to medium bodied. Throat burn-like aftertaste from the raspberry seeds. A raspberry bomb with too little beer taste if you as me.

This is the first beer that I have had from this brewery and one that I have been eager to try for quite some time. I was not disappointed. +++ Sampled from a 650 ml brown bottle this beer poured a dark red-brown color with a medium sized beige head that faded quickly and left decent lacing. The aroma was tart sugar and raspberry. The flavor was very tart yet sweet very strong raspberry jam with a nutty honey undertone. The finish was very long tart and tangy raspberry jam, bread and honey. Fairly full bodied. Excellent.

Tasted on 1/1/12 from a waxed and capped 750mL bottle purchased at Discount Liquor, probably around 18 months ago. Pours cloudy amber red with an average beige head that recedes to nothing more than a thin collar of lace. The nose is tart and dusty raspberry with some raspberry syrup sweetness and a touch of light malt. The flavor is more syrup sweet than the nose, with the tart, dusty notes underlying, and just a hint of some light malts. The body is medium with a syrupy texture, medium carbonation, and a long tart and sweet raspberry finish, and some tannin.