What Even is Blue Raspberry Anyway?
Evil Twin Brewing

Murky light green body. Ectocooler look. Bright raspberry on the nose. A bit of earthy, nutty astringency on the taste with a bit of seedy raspberry. Slightly herbal bite as well. Mild lemony tartness, a bit herbal and nutty finish. Medium body, good carb

It pours green! The beer pours light mint green color with a vigorous and overflowing head on it. Aroma reminds one of lemongrass and perhaps some faint raspberry, though admittedly very faint. Taste is unlike an IPA and perhaps more like a Berliner Weisse fruited sour. It is light bodied (very light bodied). Some mild sweetness here as well. This is not a beer I recommend.

 

 

16oz can. Poured out a sickly green color with a small, off-white head of foam. It left minimal lacing on the glass. It smelled of raspberry, lemon, some caramel and floral notes. Doesn't really taste like an IPA at all. Tart berry taste with some lemon and raspberry sweetness.

 

*Poured into a Teku glass from a 16oz can*

This beer is BLUE! Well.. bluish green. This was definitely an interesting looking beer and it had a simple finger thick white head with moderate retention.

This smelled a bit like a Warhead. Straight up candy-like, almost reminding me of green apple candy or the blue raspberry jolly ranchers.

I found that this had a pretty one-note general sourness to it in the front-end and a raspberry-like tartness throughout. I thought that this mostly just tasted of blue raspberry jolly ranchers, which I think was Evil Twin's goal when brewing this. The sourness remained throughout the entirety of the beer, but it faded a bit in the back-end, showcasing a bit more of its malty notes. The finish had a bit of a saltine cracker note to it.

This was pretty much like drinking liquid blue jolly rancher. This had no alcohol taste to this whatsoever and I'd be hard pressed to call this an IPA, since this tasted more like a flavored seltzer. But with a light to medium body and a moderate amount of carbonation, this was super easy to drink and very crush-able.

 

 

Poured like green swamp water with about two fingers of head and then a few drops of deep saturated blue color dripped out at the end and dispersed throughout. Guess I should have homogenized it before pouring. Ended up with some of the blue coloring around the lip of the can even after shaking it out into the glass. Pungent sour candy nose, but unfortunately it tastes like artificial sweetener and has a slimy mouthfeel. Was very excited to try thia one in California having come all the way from New York and as an avid fan of fruit forward sours especially on the sweet side - would not recommend.

First off, the beer is BLUE.

I got very little hoppiness, not in a bad way, and a lot more tartness and fruit flavor. In my opinion, this drinks much more like a sour than an IPA but regardless, it's bright, crisp and refreshing. Creative beer making from Evil Twin.

 

Pours a bright teal color with a thick two finger white head that dissipates pretty steadily. Thin layer of foam remains on top of the beer. There is a dark blue residue that dribbled out of the can towards the end and eventually pooled at the bottom of my glass.

Aroma has notes of tart blue raspberry, light notes of wheat, and a slightly sweet candy like note.

Taste has notes of sour blue raspberry, candied green apple, jolly rancher, with notes of wheat and a moderate acidity on the back end. that acidity becomes a bit astringent and the beer is consumed. Also, not surprisingly, this is quite sweet.

Feel is light and spritzy. Really dry kind of abrupt finish.

Overall this is a unique but hella weird beer. Its like the beer version of a blue raspberry jolly rancher. Part of me loves it, part of me hates it. Regardless, I am glad I got to try it once.

Beer from the brewery in Queens during the 2020 COVID “pause”, pours a ninja turtles piss teal with an off-green head and cotton candy lacing, smell is Red Bull, crushed warheads, emergen-C, and strawberry nesquick, taste is laffytaffy, apple airheads, super sweet frost glacier freeze Gatorade, and sour raspberry, this beer is nicely carbonated and sticky sweet. Fruity sour taffy candy beer, what even is blue raspberry anyway, indeed.