Grizzly Paw Beavertail Raspberry Ale

Brewed by Grizzly Paw Brewing Company
Style: Fruit Beer
Canmore, Canada

Serve in Flute

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I tried this as part of an 8 beer tasting tray at the pub. The tasting tray is an excellent value, featuring Big Head brown, Grumpy Bear Wheat, Powder Hound pilsener, Rutting Elk red, Beavertail Raspberry, Randy Goat pilsener, and two seasonal brews that are new: Bloody Hell Pale Ale and Burrowing Badger Summer Ale. This one was a cloudy pale yellow with a strong aroma of raspberry jam. The raspberry flavour was not all that subtle, and had more of a sweet candy flavour like the Rockets you get at Halloween. Still, not a bad lighter style for summer, and on this day in particular (28 degrees in the mountains is HOT!).

On draft at the brewpub. Pink gold in colour with moderate carbonation. the strong raspberry aroma dominates the nose. There is a bit more of a balance between the raspberry and light malt notes in the mouth, although the fruit takes on an unfortunate medicinal note. Light bodied with a long finish. My least favorite of the Grizzly Paw beers that I tried.

341mL bottle poured a cloudy pinkish golden color with big off-white head and some fine lacing. Aroma is predominantly raspberries with some wheat and yeast. Taste is tart raspberries up front with some wheat and a fruity sweetness in the finish. A very interesting look to this beer, but the taste offers little to be desired.

Very sour taste, faint notions of raspberry, no after taste really. A good beer to give a miss, elements just don’t come together for me. On tap at Grizzly’s

It pours a real dark cloudy golden color with some peach hue’s with a long lasting white head. It has quite a bit of carbonation and some patchy lacing. On the nose i am getting wheat but a dominate raspberry presence The flavor is huge on the raspberry front. But there is decent,wheat,yeasty notes as well some tartness. But as far as raspberry beer it’s not bad. It is what it is. It finishes with a lingering sweetness. I am not really getting any hops coming through. For me this is to sweet to be a session beer. But after a good meal it would make a nice liquid dessert.

Sample Tasting: Cloudy pink. Nose: tart tangy Aroma: Toasted malt, ripe raspberry, short finish.

"Brew appears to be a cloudy peach color, this looks strange and unexpected. Cap is thick and long lasting. Sour raspberry aroma that’s very fake and powdery not remotely interesting. Taste also fake and powdery with a wheat back ground. Taste is very simple and fake also slightly sour, no real enjoyment out of drinking this but wasn’t offensive either."

Draught at the brewpub
Muddy blond color. It has a light aroma of berries, not bad. But the flavors don’t mix well, mainly because of missing sweetness and too much bitterness.

On tap at the brewery, part of a sampler. Not a very well balanced, too sweet with an almost raspberry-seed flavor at times

Draft, at brewpub. Hazy gold with a thin white cap. A little bit of light raspberry fruit in the aroma. Flavour was tarter than expected, some raspberry notes and grain flavours. Light bodied. Not really belgian styled, more of an American Wheat with fruit.

On tap at Grizzy Paw. Poured hazy golden with a short white head and lots of lacing. Muted, sweetened raspberries with tart lemon and wheaty notes in the aroma. Raspberry seeds join tart lemon and wheat in the quite sweet flavor. Felt only decent on the palate... little tacky at the finish. Not bad... not good.