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Harpoon UFO Raspberry Hefeweizen

Harpoon UFO Raspberry Hefeweizen

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A Fruit Beer brewed by
Harpoon Brewery

Boston, Massachusetts USA

bottled
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1722.82/5.02.81/5.05.1%54.6 Flute P  Stats

Commercial Description:
UFO Raspberry Hefeweizen is our own interpretation of the European practice of adding fruit flavors to wheat beers. We have added natural raspberry flavor to our UFO Hefeweizen to give it a delicate fruit flavor and slight sweetness. The raspberry juice adds a rich color to the cloudy, unfiltered beer, yielding a soft reddish hue. The scent of the berries mixes with the lightly hopped beer aroma. The raspberries are balanced by UFO Hefeweizen’s clean, wheat beer taste, making this beer enjoyable and refreshing.

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 swoopjones (1115), Buffalo, New York, USA
2.7 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/103/55/102/511/20

Jul 16, 2008  
On tap @ Coles in Buffalo NY. Pours a pinkish orange almost Shirley temple color. Aroma is perfumy raspberry. Taste is of raspberries, artificial perfuminess & sweetness. Not horrible by any means but a little too sweet

 JamesD (156), Centreville, Virginia, USA
3 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/103/56/103/512/20
Sep 3, 2008  
I thought this was actually pretty good. Even better than the regular UFO. This beer has a delicious, juicy raspberry aroma and sharp, acidy raspberry flavor. It also gives a nice pucker when you swallow it.


TOSG55 (32), Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
3.5 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/103/57/103/515/20
Sep 1, 2008  
Bottle. Pours a pinkish orange, with an off-white head with large bubbles. Aroma of yeast and raspberries. Raspberries also dominate the flavor, which is sweet with a sour bite, and also has notes of grape/white wine, and a slightly bready finish. Yeast flavors are subdued for a Hefeweizen. Very tasty and drinkable, though it does tread dangerously close to being a wine cooler. Underrated nevertheless.


 rdelljh (100), Alabama, USA
3.5 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/103/57/104/513/20
Aug 31, 2008  
Medium body, good carbonation. Better than malt. This actually tastes like a wheat beer with natural raspberry flavor


 wyzzywyz22 (325), Wirral, Merseyside, England
2.2 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
5/102/55/102/58/20
Aug 29, 2008  
Bottle, Beer Ritz, Leeds. Cloudy light pink colour with lively carbonation. Yes , surprise surprise there is indeed raspberry in the aroma and flavour, but this was too sweet and saccharine for me. Very insipid and watery with a rather unpalatable artificial quality that is a straight up and down turn off.


 ucusty (1062), Wake Forest, North Carolina, USA
2.9 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/103/55/103/510/20
Aug 28, 2008  
Amber pour fluffy white head and decent lace. Light raspberry aroma. Big raspberry flavor. Slight tart finish




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