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: **

UFO Hefeweizen

The Beer Stats:

• Beer Name:UFO

• Brewery: Harpoon (Massachusetts/Vermont)

• Style: Hefeweizen

• ABV: 4.8%

• IBU: 19

• Pour Color: A very murky yellow color

      This one was a golden color with a nice thick fluffy head. It didn't last long and then i saw the murkiness. A splash of this one and you don't get what you expect. With most unfiltered beers you have a thicker body. The UFO doesn't seem to have that quality. It's quite light in body in fact. On top of that the flavors of the normal Hefeweizen isn't really that strong. I would consider this one more of a wheat beer then Hefe because of it's really light character.
      The other Hefeweizen I reviewed was Dreamweaver. That one went heavy on flavor and blended it well. This however is a different animal. It blends it's flavors well but they are really more subtle then I personally like. My follicles forgot this one soon after it splashed up, and that usually doesn't happen. I could see the face grabbing this on a hot day but that's about it for such a mellow beer.

Rate: ***