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Melville's Raspberry Beer
Innis & Gunn
- From:
- Innis & Gunn
- Scotland, United Kingdom
- Style:
- Fruit and Field Beer
- ABV:
- 4.1%
- Score:
- 81
- Avg:
- 3.44 | pDev: 15.99%
- Reviews:
- 6
- Ratings:
- Status:
- Active
- Rated:
- Nov 01, 2014
- Added:
- Jun 19, 2011
- Wants:
- 2
- Gots:
- 4
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Reviewed by biegaman from Canada (ON)
3.25/5 rDev -5.5%
look: 3.25 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3.25
3.25/5 rDev -5.5%
look: 3.25 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3.25
Melville's Raspberry Beer has, to no surprise, a Grenadine-like complexion. For anyone unable to read a label, the fact that this is a fruit beer will be plainly apparent off the bat. Though it might smell and taste like it, the raspberry beer has much more transparency and a brighter colour than raspberry jam (just as many bubbles and as much head too, mind you).
While the aroma has enough raspberry flavour to conjure to mind frozen yogurt or a store-bought jam, it doesn't have the decadent fruit flavour to induce salivation. It smells of real raspberries and nothing else (save maybe sugar and pectin), but the allure just isn't there.
Though it is not without many faults, Melville's Raspberry Beer at least steers clear of having the artificial and gargantuan sweet flavour of so many other fruit beers. In some regards, a more saccharine taste might have been preferred, if only to give me more to write about. As is, it's a rather tiresome and straightforward raspberry jam flavour.
Still, I'll take an unexciting fruit beer over one that's synthetically stimulating. This has a more natural honeyed sweetness, one that doesn't overstay its welcome on the palate; there's no confusing this beer with juice, much less some kind of 'cocktail'. Still, this makes a weak hot-weather quencher and there's no way it could stand up to chocolatey desserts.
During the months of June-September, I can't get enough of raspberries. Raspberry beers, however, unless we're talking lambics, is another story altogether. While I appreciate that Melville's Raspberry Beer uses real fruit juice (not from concentrate) I've had beers that offer much more vivid fruit qualities by the same means. Hardly worth consideration.
Jul 17, 2013While the aroma has enough raspberry flavour to conjure to mind frozen yogurt or a store-bought jam, it doesn't have the decadent fruit flavour to induce salivation. It smells of real raspberries and nothing else (save maybe sugar and pectin), but the allure just isn't there.
Though it is not without many faults, Melville's Raspberry Beer at least steers clear of having the artificial and gargantuan sweet flavour of so many other fruit beers. In some regards, a more saccharine taste might have been preferred, if only to give me more to write about. As is, it's a rather tiresome and straightforward raspberry jam flavour.
Still, I'll take an unexciting fruit beer over one that's synthetically stimulating. This has a more natural honeyed sweetness, one that doesn't overstay its welcome on the palate; there's no confusing this beer with juice, much less some kind of 'cocktail'. Still, this makes a weak hot-weather quencher and there's no way it could stand up to chocolatey desserts.
During the months of June-September, I can't get enough of raspberries. Raspberry beers, however, unless we're talking lambics, is another story altogether. While I appreciate that Melville's Raspberry Beer uses real fruit juice (not from concentrate) I've had beers that offer much more vivid fruit qualities by the same means. Hardly worth consideration.
Reviewed by Mit from Canada (ON)
3.41/5 rDev -0.9%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.25
3.41/5 rDev -0.9%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.25
Pours a ruby red with a pinkish head that evaporates kinda like pop.
Sourish raspberries are the initial smell that hits the nose. Not sickly sweet though.
Initial taste from the bottle was very sweet...out of the glass it's much more balanced with a more refreshing sour finish...still raspberry sweet though. Probably couldn't have too many of these in a row before I got sick of it.
Mouthfeel is good for the abv...it's a nice light on the tongue beverage.
Overall I did like it but were I to pick out a fruit beer I would probably grab one that was less sweet. Def nice to try and if you like sweet you will probably love it.
Jun 19, 2013Sourish raspberries are the initial smell that hits the nose. Not sickly sweet though.
Initial taste from the bottle was very sweet...out of the glass it's much more balanced with a more refreshing sour finish...still raspberry sweet though. Probably couldn't have too many of these in a row before I got sick of it.
Mouthfeel is good for the abv...it's a nice light on the tongue beverage.
Overall I did like it but were I to pick out a fruit beer I would probably grab one that was less sweet. Def nice to try and if you like sweet you will probably love it.
Melville's Raspberry Beer from Innis & Gunn
Beer rating:
81 out of
100 with
28 ratings
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