Wittekerke Rosé / Rosarda

Brewed by Bavik-De Brabandere
Style: Fruit Beer
Harelbeke, Belgium

Serve in Flute

Cloudy orange with medium beige with orange glimts. Sweet aroma with artificial beeries. Sweet flavour with candy like raspberries.

Poured from 8.4 oz can a hazy yellowish pink. Aroma of berries, malt and hops. Flavour of berries, full on. Girlie beer, yet tasty, bring on the hot days of summer again.

Bottle. BB4 12/12/08. Dirty pink grapefruit juice with a very thin white head. Definitely get the raspberry in the aroma. Sweet, raspberry, a touch acidic from the fruit or the Aged Pale. Not sure what others are expecting. A small sweet, somewhat refreshing, summer drink. With slogans "The Fruity Pink Beer" and "The Original Rose Beer", grapefruit colour, 4.3% ABV and the girl on the label it appears to attempt to be a beer for girls. If it supposed to be a fruit wheat then it misses the mark by a wide margin. Closer to a Floris.

Sampled at the 12th Annual Knoxville Brewer’s Jam. Pinkish cloudy with a light frothy white head. Harsh raspberries, medicinal. Taste is more raspberries over a decent smooth wheat body. Extremely sweet.

Personally, I think this beer gets a very bad rap. I had it on draft, and while the raspberry came across as a bit artificial, it was nowhere near other raspberry wheats I have had. Body has very, very good carbonation that makes it drinkable and not too cloyingly sweet.

Rule number one of fruit beers: Do not make it with aspartame. The dry, plasticky taste you detect in this is the stuff they put in diet soda.

Pours a slightly red amber color with a pinkish off white head. Aroma was of sour cherries and thats about it. Flavor was very disappointing, tasted like raspberry syrup, not natural at all.

very little aroma. its a belgian wine cooler, sweet acidic fake raspberry. wouldnt call it a beer