New Glarus Wisconsin Belgian Red

This beer tastes more like fresh cherries than fresh cherries do. I’m not kidding. Great desert beer if there is such a thing. Tastes nothing like beer. Flavor is not incredibly complex(I have a hard time picking up some of the flavors listed in other reviews) but it is very enjoyable.

Pours a dark red color, with a beige head. Aroma is straight cherries, flavor is straight cherries. Medium mouthfeel. I must say i’m glad i shared this with my family for christmas desert, because i couldn’t handle a whole bottle myself, just too sweet, but i must say, then 8 or so ounces i had was very good. Very nice for dessert.

Bottle sampled with rudge75. and mnurda. Dark red in colour with hints of brown. Low to medium carbonation. Huge sweet cherry aroma with additional notes of vanilla, and some pale barley malt. Very large in the mouth with the cherries obviously taking centre stage, along with a bit of other red berry fruit. As sweet as it is, there are more dimensions than sweet fruit to this beer, with notes of vanilla and earth. It’s smooth on the palate, yet there’s enough earthy bitterness to keep things in check. Not something you could knock back a lot of, but this is one heck of a dessert beer.

Pours to orangey red from one of the most attractive bottles of all time, producing a pinkish beige head. The pound of cherries in my Belgian Red dances enticingly in the air, with silken oak and vanilla gracefully bedding it back down. Flavor is glorious, the taste of the Garden of Eden before the fall. Sour and sweet cherry with a hint of chocolate and the tears of angels. Tartly acidic in the mouth with a dry, distantly woody finish. Perfect for the holidays, or maybe the afterlife... a true achievement in artistic craft.

Updated. An undefinitively aged bottle. Spicier and less forceful aroma. Develops an odd beet flavor glazing what is more a thick fruitcake body than a brilliant mash of cherries. Less perfect but nonetheless intriguing and still satisfying.

From a 750 ml. bottle with a red wax dipped cap, a blurb and serving suggestion on the right side, sampled after three hours in refrigerator in a flute glass. Poured a ruby red amber, like cherry wood in color, with a red hued foamy, bubbly pale tan head that settled in a thin lacing. Aromas of freshly mashed cherries with light yeastiness and wheat malts. Good, even, steady carbonation and a dry, softly crisp, creamy smooth medium bodied mouthfeel, pretty close to perfect. Delicious tasting, fresh red cherry mash with a sugary tartness, a good acidity, a very light sour breadiness, a subtle hop flavor and bitterness, a slight alcohol warmth in the palate, and a dry cherry and malty finish. This is one of the better fruit beers I’ve had, an easy, smooth sipping drinkability, well worth trying.

(Bottle) Pours a hazy reddish brown color with very little head. Sweet aroma, with an initial juicy character. Excellent blend between a sweet cherry flavor, and a sour aftertaste. It’s amazing how much this beer tastes like cherries. All in all, a great beer!

Rating #500 for this beer and #325 for me! My wife and I and some friends were fortunate enough to visit the New Glarus Brewery while we were in that area in November... New Glarus Belgian Red is a muddy claret color with a fizzy white head that bubbles away quickly. The aroma is all cherry and is sweet, but also has a slight "tang" to it. Like the aroma, the flavor is cherry and has a wonerfully balanced sweet and sour/tart thing going on. There is a hint of "beer" flavor just before the enjoyable, fuity finish. The beer feels soft and juicy in mouth, medium body over all. This beer is well carbonated, but not too much to the point that it is fizzy. The cherry aroma and flavor are 100% real - no artificial qualities at all! This is a fantastic beer and was well worth the trip to the brewery to pick up a few bottles! On top of that, this is another beer that my wife actually likes (she would have given it a 4.9)! 25 oz bottle directly from the brewery! -- Now it’s time to go wrap some Christmas gifts...

aromas of sour sweet cherry with oak log cabin and the faintest hint of cigarillos. juice, vanilla. brinks to mind wrinkled marinated cherries like a sour old man. Pour looks cloudy and juicy, a weird maroon tan that makes me think this will be strange and delectable. Incredibly powerful and quite complex, hits you with a blast of sweet and sour. Not terribly refined but a fun overpowered ride. Short tan head. Sour medicinal, tangy. It does indeed look a bit like a cider and could be described as tasting like a cherry cider. This aged a few months in my basement, about six, and seems to have lost some of the supposed carbonation but gaine a lot of sour edge. Amazing, absolutely the best cherry beverage I’ve had.