Southern Tier Raspberry Wheat

The Beer Stats:

• Beer Name: Raspberry Wheat

• Brewery: Southern Tier Brewing Company (New York)

• Style: Wheat 

• ABV: 4.9%

• IBU:

• Pour Color: A golden slightly murky beer.

      It was easy to see through this one although its was slightly murky. Almost had a white ale look to it. The scent off the top was full of fruit, malt, and hop. The wheat comes through off the glass and the raspberry has a fresh scent. The hops give a slight grassy scent. On taste it is a nice mix of flavors too. The raspberry isn't very sweet at all. The wheat mixes well with the flavor of the raspberry. The hops bitter it slightly giving you a beer with a fruit flavor. Not just another fruit beer.
      This is the kind of fruit beer I find myself enjoying the most. Not just a fruit flavor like anyone can get but a beer taste too. Malts and hops mixing together with that fruit to taste good. This one isn't in the class of a Aprihop but it was pretty good. 

Rating: ***1/2

Harpoon Raspberry Wheat

The Beer Stats:

• Beer Name: Harpoon Raspberry UFO

• Brewery: Harpoon Brewing Company (Massachusetts)

• Style: Raspberry Hefeweizen

• ABV:5.1%

• IBU:10

• Pour Color: Dark red and murky.

      Looked very thick on the pour. Murky and unfiltered  as advertised. This mustache expected a lot of flavor out of it. The head was gone quickly and left no trace. The scent off the glass was a strong sweet raspberry scent. Upon hitting the follicles I began to wonder if we had messed up. This one was so sweet that it could have been a soda. The malts are a light after taste when you swallow. Not my favorite beer.
      This one is so strong in raspberry that I would only recommend it to non-beer drinkers. No real hop character or strong malt flavor. Just a strong sweet taste of raspberry. Not the kind of thing this mustache likes.

Rating: **