Groggs Raspberry Wheat

Pinnacle Brewing Co. (aka Groggs)
Brewed at Uinta Brewing Company
Style: Fruit Beer
Helper, Utah USA

Serve in Flute

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This beer has a nice aroma, full lively CO2 head and pink appearance, and a sweet attack. The body is a bit weaker, and leaves me wanting some more wheat characters and malt to balance the initial sweetness. Nice mouthfeel, with a bit of a sticky finish, again something I think that would be improved by a bigger body. A good first-beer choice in the area.

UPDATED: JUL 14, 2008 On tap at the brewpub. Pours a hazy orange with a thick white head. The aroma is mostly sweet sugars and wheat. The taste was quite surprising; tons of very sweet raspberry, and I mean very sweet. Some wheat and malt too, but man this was full of berry sweetness, kinda artificial, but not too bad either, Drinkable.

[Colorado Road Trip – 2006] A hazy deep amber colored brew. This was a unfiltered Wheat beer with a tad of raspberry flavoring added. The fruit flavor was so subtle that it was hard to get on the flavor scale. This was a poor attempt at making a good fruit beer. Needs more fruit and the wheat profile was off by a mile.

Orange, typical nose of sweet raspberry syrup, candy-like. Thin, watery, light semi-sweet fruit flavors... some honey even. It’s bad when the raspberry wheat is one of the better offerings.