New Glarus Raspberry Tart

Brewed by New Glarus Brewing Company
Style: Fruit Beer
New Glarus, Wisconsin USA

Bottle. Pours a brown red with a thing white head. Very pleasant aroma of fresh raspberries, medicine, and sugar. Flavor is sweet with the slightest hint of tart raspberries on the finnish. Very creamy. Raspberries with whipped cream. A great dessert beer. Neat brew

Much more tart and sour than the Belgian Red makes this an equally fine beer. Pours a dark ruby red with a dark pink head. Aroma of tart raspberries and cherries. Flavor is solid and very tart, but still a little too sweet for my tastes. I wish it was dryer and less syrupy. I really enjoy the sour funk that is present, but I think it would benefit from being bottle conditioned with some live bacteria.

It is somewhat difficult to review to style on something of a catch all style, so I will try my best with this one. One of my few remaining top 100 that I have in my cellar, been sitting on this for a while. New Glarus’ Belgian red was fantastic, and this one gets similar love. I hope it gets similar love from me. Here we go! Look is something like a cranberry or grape juice which looks good. I am going to penalize it a bit for the lack of head retention and lacing, but otherwise no problem with the appearance here. Scent is, no surprise here, very strong sugary raspberry. A slight bready scent as well. Good, but one dimensional. It’s difficult to not judge this against wild ales which would be penalized for not having a bit more to it, but this is exactly what it says it should be. Taste however is very very good. I don’t even like raspberry, but I like this. Not cloyingly sweet or sour, a pleasant (surprise) raspberry burst that has some candy character. Very good but just a little too rich, so rich that I will probably not be able to kill the bottle in one sitting. Mouth is great, syrupy and bubbly. That is to say it’s thick, which again would seem off in a wild ale or lambic, but works here. Overall I’m going to come in slightly below the average rating on here, but this is a very good beer. Given the option I am going to opt for it’s Belgian Red brother every time, but this is still a damn good beer.

Delicious! Everything you could want in a sour fruit lambic style beer. This is probably the best lambic I’ve ever had, and it’s not even from Belgium! Another great feature is that it’s very likable by non-beer-drinkers. Will probably serve some of this at my wedding.

(750ml bottle) Pours a ruddy red with nice oily white head. Nose is tart raspberries, taste is sour and tart raspberries as well. Pretty one dimensional but man it is good. Cheek puckeringly so too. The linger on the palette is oaky and sweet.

Bottle graciously shared at BCTC by yet another wonderful person. Whomever you were, thanks. This was delicious. Pours a clearish ruby brown with a thin white head. Enormous clean fresh raspberries and a faint touch of vanilla. Big and chewy. Nice tang to it. Crisp. Delicious. Not sure how they do it, but New Glarus manages to do fruit beers so incredibly well. Clean and distinct, not cloying, not artificial. Just real and up front.

I’ll take my raspberry tart as is, please, maybe a little dab of fresh whipped cream. The real thing please; no oil or nitrous added. As for the raspberry tart, only the freshest berries, natural sugars, and homemade crust for me. As my lips wrap around its sweet, succulent, moist, and raspberry-rific body, a playfully tart kiss lingers while warm crust provides a soft chair to lean back upon. Delightfully delicious. As I open my eyes, I realize that I am not partaking of a real raspberry tart, but instead I am supping on the Raspberry Tart from New Glarus Brewing in New Glarus, Washington. Let me elaborate.

She came to me on a quiet, starlit night, deep burnt ruby-red eyes sparkled like a precious gem unfettered and unadulterated by the corruptive touch of mankind. This is made all that more ironic by the fact that this particular beer is a product of man’s tender loving machinations, but machinations none-the-less. Her voluptuous bouquet is picked up by the gentle breeze and wafts past me fully aware of their irresistibility. Vanilla bean and pie crust are content to linger in the background, allowing the raspberries and cream to take center stage, as they very well should. There is a finishing playful nip of tartness, a reminder that not all things in life must be saccharine to be enjoyable. There is no resistance or shyness; all that has been thrown to the wind as I greedily sup on her liquid ecstasy. Creamy milky vanilla center with raspberries all around, sour and sweet, resting in a warm pie crust fresh from the oven. There is very little lingering dryness, though I easily thirst for more. If there were ever a perfect dessert beer or sophisticated aperitif, the Raspberry Tart from New Glarus is all one needs. A gentle coating within my mouth blossoms raspberry and cream with a touch of vanilla and crust. She doesn’t last long in my glass at all. As I savor the last drop, a whisper of dry wood touches the roof of my mouth, and is gone. All that is left are sweet memories of freshly served raspberry tart.

I’m not into really sweet things anymore. I prefer a more artisanal interplay of opposition and cooperation. The Raspberry Tart could be sickenly sweet, but New Glarus understands the artistry of balance. This is the perfect aperitif, after dinner delight, or party highlight to show off to your friends, family and strangers. Grab some champagne flutes, pour, sip, and lose yourself to her sinfully delicious delights. You deserve it.

Bottle shared generously by footbalm. Pours a bright red-brown color with a medium white head. The aroma is sweet raspberries, tartness and super sweet. The flavor is similar; amazingly natural flavors of sweet and in the finish quite tart raspberries. Light oak and vanilla perhaps, but this beer is all about the fruit, and I like me some red raspberries. Very awesome for what it is.