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Shock Top Raspberry Wheat
Anheuser-Busch
- From:
- Anheuser-Busch
- Missouri, United States
- Style:
- Fruit and Field Beer
- ABV:
- 5.2%
- Score:
- 66
- Avg:
- 2.82 | pDev: 28.37%
- Reviews:
- 166
- Ratings:
- Status:
- Retired
- Rated:
- Apr 11, 2021
- Added:
- Mar 16, 2011
- Wants:
- 13
- Gots:
- 247
Raspberry Wheat delivers the same smooth taste of Shock Top, with a hint of raspberry flavor. This traditional Belgian-style wheat ale is brewed with essence of wild raspberry and hand-selected hops. It’s this combination that gives it its crisp and distinctive Shock Top taste, with its own flavorful twist. This unfiltered ale has a light-golden color and a smooth finish, and if you’re curious, it technically doesn’t, not count toward your daily fruit intake.
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Ratings by CurtisPeacock:
Reviewed by CurtisPeacock
2.57/5 rDev -8.9%
look: 3.5 | smell: 4 | taste: 1.5 | feel: 3 | overall: 2.5
2.57/5 rDev -8.9%
look: 3.5 | smell: 4 | taste: 1.5 | feel: 3 | overall: 2.5
A: This beer pours a hazy light gold with a moderate 1 inch head. On the thinner side of lacing with just a little sticking around after the initial pour.
S: Light wheat smell with a rich burst of raspberry. Very pleasing smell, really gets you excited to try
T: Fail. Not a fan in any sense of this beer's taste. The first sip is not bad. A good amount of your typical wheat beer taste and a strong punch of raspberry. Unfortunately, after the first drink it's out with the good and in with the bad. The raspberry is overwhelming. One of the sweetest beers I have ever had. If you do enjoy really rich, sweet beers than this may be worth a try. The smell drew me in but the overwhelming sweetness drove me away.
M: A little on the watery side. Not very wheat beer like.
Overall: This beer is just too sweet for myself. If you are a fan of beers such as Leinenkugel's Summer Shandy or like wine coolers than this may be for you. Otherwise I would suggest looking elsewhere.
Nov 14, 2012S: Light wheat smell with a rich burst of raspberry. Very pleasing smell, really gets you excited to try
T: Fail. Not a fan in any sense of this beer's taste. The first sip is not bad. A good amount of your typical wheat beer taste and a strong punch of raspberry. Unfortunately, after the first drink it's out with the good and in with the bad. The raspberry is overwhelming. One of the sweetest beers I have ever had. If you do enjoy really rich, sweet beers than this may be worth a try. The smell drew me in but the overwhelming sweetness drove me away.
M: A little on the watery side. Not very wheat beer like.
Overall: This beer is just too sweet for myself. If you are a fan of beers such as Leinenkugel's Summer Shandy or like wine coolers than this may be for you. Otherwise I would suggest looking elsewhere.
More User Ratings:
Rated by TommyG22 from Wisconsin
4.46/5 rDev +58.2%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.5
4.46/5 rDev +58.2%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.5
One of my all time favorite beers. Always watching for it to return. Crisp citrus flavor with raspberry.
Apr 11, 2021Reviewed by Caleb_the from Arizona
4.37/5 rDev +55%
look: 4 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.25
4.37/5 rDev +55%
look: 4 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.25
Beautiful orange color, mixed properly and poured gives it a beautiful cloudy glow. Strong fruity aromas fill the area. Before the spices mix, it's rather acidic and sour. After, though, it's noticably sweet, fruity, and smooth. The flavor was more of a tangerine, and was a bit confusing. More drinks never hurt the experience. Was really impressed with the overall drinking experience. No lingering bitterness, or unpleasant flavors. Will buy again, given I can find it.
Apr 02, 2017Reviewed by Squire from Mississippi
3.16/5 rDev +12.1%
look: 2.75 | smell: 3 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3.25
3.16/5 rDev +12.1%
look: 2.75 | smell: 3 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3.25
Appearance of light hazy yellow with white cap and some lacing.
Aroma is surprising. If you handed this to me blind I would've said blueberry rather than raspberry. Two other tasters whose opinion I sought said apple or "something". It is a pleasant scent though no matter how described.
Taste is where I get raspberry. Not a sharp, tart raspberry, rather a creamy sweetened flavor. Hop presence is minimal. The slight prickly sensation I get may be hops, or carbonation and I suspect the latter. Of course it's a fruit dominant taste and one shouldn't be surprised. It is lightly textured, heavily flavored and just a bit more sweet than I like. I wonder if it would be more appealing if the color was red. Anyway, it is what it is.
Lighter side of medium texture. More carbonation might make it more mouth filling but I can't say that would make the flavor stand out more.
Overall it's a decent, well made, highly fruit flavored wheat beer that wasn't designed to sip and savor, rather to drink and enjoy.
Feb 14, 2017Aroma is surprising. If you handed this to me blind I would've said blueberry rather than raspberry. Two other tasters whose opinion I sought said apple or "something". It is a pleasant scent though no matter how described.
Taste is where I get raspberry. Not a sharp, tart raspberry, rather a creamy sweetened flavor. Hop presence is minimal. The slight prickly sensation I get may be hops, or carbonation and I suspect the latter. Of course it's a fruit dominant taste and one shouldn't be surprised. It is lightly textured, heavily flavored and just a bit more sweet than I like. I wonder if it would be more appealing if the color was red. Anyway, it is what it is.
Lighter side of medium texture. More carbonation might make it more mouth filling but I can't say that would make the flavor stand out more.
Overall it's a decent, well made, highly fruit flavored wheat beer that wasn't designed to sip and savor, rather to drink and enjoy.
Reviewed by AngusOg from North Carolina
2.69/5 rDev -4.6%
look: 3.75 | smell: 2.75 | taste: 2.5 | feel: 3 | overall: 2.5
2.69/5 rDev -4.6%
look: 3.75 | smell: 2.75 | taste: 2.5 | feel: 3 | overall: 2.5
If you like the taste of sweet, kind of artificial raspberry dominating your beer, so much so that you cannot taste any other aspects of the beer, then this is absolutely the brew for you. Poorly made fruit beer. Choked down about half a bottle before drain pouring the rest.
Jan 15, 2017
Shock Top Raspberry Wheat from Anheuser-Busch
Beer rating:
66 out of
100 with
1021 ratings
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