Granite Brewery Ringberry Ale

Brewed by Granite Brewery (Toronto)
Style: Fruit Beer
Toronto, Canada

Serve in Flute

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Strong raspberry aroma -- tastes legit not syrup. Clean and light. Simple but pleasant summery beer.

Soft taste, comes on quite pleasantly actually. The best fruit beer I’ve had actually - usually I’m not much of a fan. On tap.

On tap at the Toronto location, clean yellow gold color, with a small white head, light raspberry puréed, juicy fruity nose with a faint honeyed pale malt note in the aroma follows through on a light-bodied palate with a yeasty, fruity, candyish raspberry, cherry character of artificial fruity sweetness, with a mild honeyed pale grainy malt undertone, leading towards a malty, juicy candyish raspberry finish.

Growler purchased at the Halifax Brewery. Raspberry aroma, very refreshing. Light golden colour with a thin white head and lace. Nice bitterness gives it a lovely refreshing texture.The beer is easy to drink and has a hint of raspberry. Enjoyable ale.

Glass, 3-ounce, at the brewery, savoured on September 16 2009; eye: golden, no effervescence, tiny tiny ring of white head, no lacing; nose: raspberry, slight malt, slight hops; mouth: raspberry, hops more present than nose suggested, light caramel, medium-light body, slightly grainy texture, light astringency, lightly bitter, slightly sweet, average carbonation; overall: fine FRANÇAIS Verre, 3 onces, en fût, bue chez Granite Brewery, savourée le 16 septembre 2009; œil : dorée, pas d’effervescence, très petit anneau de mousse blanc, pas de dentelle; nez : framboise, très léger malt, très léger houblon; bouche : framboise, houblon plus présent que le nez le suggère, léger caramel, corps moyen-léger, texture légèrement granuleuse, légère astringence, légèrement amère, très légèrement sucrée, carbonatation moyenne; en résumé : bien

Growler from the brewery. Pours a hazy orange-brown with thin white head. Aroma of raspberry, sweet but not overly so. Raspberries in the flavour, fairly tart with some vaguely piney bitterness in the finish. Fine carbonation. Decent fruit beer.

Tap at Toronto location. Porus a very light pinkish peach with a very faint violet tint - foamy thin white head. Aroma is slight raspberry and perfumey with phenolic spiciness, somewhat light jamminess as well. Flavor si light crackers with hust a touch of raspberry jelly on them- with more perfume, and off phenolics. Light and crackery finish.

Objectively speaking: Feels more or less like the ringwood ale in which a portion of raspberry juice was added.
I like: Not too subtle, you can guess raspberries were used without having the glass anywhere close to your nose.
I dislike: Not feeling particularly fresh and this is vital for a blonde fruit beer. More or less successful, the palate remains the same light-bodied, not particularly crisp palate than the ringwood, so does the appearance and the flavours are not a natural match where they could have gathered more appeal in a more complex malt blend.

on tap at the brewery in toronto. golden in colour with a tight white head. nice sweet raspberry aromas. flavour is initially sweet raspberry but this fades into pale malts and this finish is dry and tart. pretty solid and something id for sure have again. i dont think i could take a growler of this one but a few bottles here and there would be awesome.

Draft in Toronto. POurs golden with a slight colored tinge. The nose is heavy rspberry and the palate shows the same deep fruit flavor. This diminishes but you don’t get much after the hit of fruit.

draft at granite brewery in toronto. clean golden with almost no head, the aroma is rasberry and so is the flavor. i feel all rasberry beers are off balanced, and so is this one. so maybe it’s just me.