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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[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.

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.

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.