Fitgers Raspberry Trail

Brewed by Fitgers Brewhouse
Style: Fruit Beer
Duluth, Minnesota USA

Serve in Flute

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Pours a hazy amber color with half an inch of nearly white head. Looks like a carbonated apple cider in the glass. Decent sweet raspberry aroma. Light tasting wheat beer with light to medium raspberry flavor. There is a mild bitterness that, based upon my own attempts making raspberry beer, I think comes from fermented raspberry rather than from hops. Light body, mild carbonation, mildly sweet even through the finish. Light (but not weak) raspberry tartness and a very faint grainy aftertaste. Both the taste and the aroma are stronger as it warms a bit. Absolutely nothing artificial tasting in the beer.

Tap. Orange pour with a nice size head. Nice raspberry nose. Taste is wheat, raspberry, and carbonation in very well balanced proportions. Easy drinking and pleasant.

Poured from a growler compliments of robertsrealty. Still quite a bit of carbonation after 2 months in my fridge. Decent head which dissipates quickly. Decent carbonation though. Had to mix it up a bit since there was a lot of very fine sedimant that had settled out to the bottom over time. Not yeast either but what looked like raspberry puree. Weak raspberry and tart aroma. A little stinky cheese in there also. Color is a muddy reddish brown. Flavor is big tart raspberries. Very dry and some strawberry presence at the end. Definately a wheat texture. Slightly gritty. Finish is clean and dry and tart. An ok fruit beer but not something that I would probably not try again. Seems like a bit of a gimmick to me.

I started off with a sampler of this, then had a pint after dinner and was more dissapointed with this afterwards. Cloudy hazel tan pour. Nice white head with good lacing. Fruit raspberry aroma, with a light pleasent musky red onion waft in the background. Flavors strongly of great fresh raspberry (this gets old). Taste starts sweet and strong, but finishes choclately dry. Pleasent, but is too watery and loses appeal. Smacks of thin apple wafts. Leaves a nice hint of strawberry on the tounge.

Good Raspberry Aroma. Probably The Best Part of the Beer. Cloudy Orange Coloring. Small Head. Wheat. Little Raspberry. Watered Down For Flavor. Nothing Distinctive about This Fruit Beer.

Ehhh...no. Probably the worst of the many fruit beer offerings at the brewhouse. Bland, boring and lacking character. Sort of has a mild raspberry jam flavor.

Raspberries clearly evident in the nose; smucker lip balm sweet. Beer looks like an Old Fashioned; murky reddish orange. Has no head. I don't prefer fruit beers but this one is fairly well done. Worth a try when it's available on tap.