3.3 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 13/20May 13th, 2011 - Well known for their dark beers and stouts, it’s rarer to find one of Samuel Smith’s fruit beers on the shelf. This is a somewhat sad state of affairs. Samuel Smith handles the fruit style with aplomb, demonstrating balance in skill and adaptability. The brew’s body is very dark purple and cloudy, almost magisterial, with slight hues of pink trailing from the beer and threaded throughout the foam. Fresh and flowery, the Organic Raspberries appear, though not as raspberries, but plying smells of thick strawberry jam and deep, ripe cherries. The mouthfeel is almost all carbonation and mineral water, and the fruit flavor makes me feel like I’m standing in the shallow end of the pool. This also reminds me Hansens’s soda, though not quite as unpleasant. The taste falls a little short, but after taking in the entire bottle, I think this is a satisfactory fruit beer, if a little light and ephemeral.
3.7 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 15/20
Purple color with a frothy pinkish head, a nice addition for a fruit ale. Aroma is raspberry malt. Flavor has a malty rasberry backbone a a good sprity bite and bitterness. Very good.
3 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 5/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 10/20
Raspberry in your face! I can’t say I’m a fan. The aroma and flavor are completly overpowered by the fruit. Very, very sweet and acidic.
3.5 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 15/20
Bottle. Rich reddish beer with a pink head. Nice raspberry aroma. Big raspberry flavor with malt backing. Medium bodied. Big raspberry lingers with backing malt.
3.2 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
Ruby in color with an average light pink head. Aroma is of raspberry candy, light tartness. Taste is raspberry, sweet , light cranberry.
3.1 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
Bottle. The look is clear, red in color, and has a pink head. The smell is fruit punch, raspberry, straightforward. Sweet. The taste is fruit, touch of tang, raspberry.
3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
355 ml bottle.
Originally rated on 20091030.
Pours dark red color with a small pink head. Aroma of berries, juice, some grass and fruits. Flavor of juicy berries, fruits, sugar and grass. Too sweet.
3.7 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 15/20
Red pour with pink head. Beer head should not be pink. Aroma is sweet raspberry and malt. Taste is the same, but throws in some sour. Nice, but too sweet for me.
3.4 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 15/20
Bottle at the Brass Tap pours a reddish color with aromas of sweet raspberries. Flavors are light grain and some tart raspberries.
2.7 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 2/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 12/20
Even further away from beer than the SS Cherry. Easy to drink but the raspberry is over-embellished.
3.2 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 5/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 11/20
Smells lovely, just not like beer. My favourite smell is probably thyme, but I wouldn’t want beer to smell like thyme (I think). So should I score this highly because it smells nice just not of beer? I don’t actually care what you think, I’ve gone for 8. Tastes of.... raspberries. Go figure.
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