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Beaver Tail Raspberry Ale
The Grizzly Paw Brewing Company
- From:
- The Grizzly Paw Brewing Company
- Alberta, Canada
- Style:
- Fruit and Field Beer
- ABV:
- 5%
- Score:
- 82
- Avg:
- 3.5 | pDev: 7.43%
- Reviews:
- 7
- Ratings:
- Status:
- Active
- Rated:
- Dec 03, 2019
- Added:
- Dec 06, 2004
- Wants:
- 1
- Gots:
- 6
A light, unfiltered wheat ale with raspberries, this is a refreshing balanced beer.
The combination of tartness and sweetness derived from the raspberries create a light, crisp, yet fruity palate.
The rich golden colour is a combination of specialty malts and real raspberries added to the beer. The haze is a result of the yeast still lingering in suspension.
An enduring favourite, this is a pleasant beer that is enjoyable either on the patio or after skiing.
The combination of tartness and sweetness derived from the raspberries create a light, crisp, yet fruity palate.
The rich golden colour is a combination of specialty malts and real raspberries added to the beer. The haze is a result of the yeast still lingering in suspension.
An enduring favourite, this is a pleasant beer that is enjoyable either on the patio or after skiing.
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Reviewed by mwilbur from Minnesota
3.52/5 rDev +0.6%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
3.52/5 rDev +0.6%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
Poured from a 12 oz can into cervoise.
A: Pours a slightly hazy orange hue with 1/4 white head that quickly recedes.
S: Loads of raspberry.
T: Raspberry, dry cracker malt, and a hint of hops.
M: Light body. Light fruit sweetness and tartness.
D: Decent fruit session brew.
Sep 24, 2019A: Pours a slightly hazy orange hue with 1/4 white head that quickly recedes.
S: Loads of raspberry.
T: Raspberry, dry cracker malt, and a hint of hops.
M: Light body. Light fruit sweetness and tartness.
D: Decent fruit session brew.
Reviewed by Bunman3 from Canada (AB)
3.56/5 rDev +1.7%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
3.56/5 rDev +1.7%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
This beer has come a long way, baby! Over the weekend, I got a chance to tour the new Grizzly Paw production facility and see the brewing process for BeaverTail. The switch to real fruit has made a huge difference in the aroma and taste. It pours cloudy, with a bit of white foam that lingers around the edge of the glass. The smell is gorgeous - real raspberry and a hint of wheat. The taste is full on wheat and fruit - perhaps a bit sweet, but that is to be expected for this style of beer. I am very happy for this brewery - they are making good beer and their pride in the craft of brewing shows!
Feb 17, 2015Reviewed by joemcgrath27 from Canada (AB)
3.47/5 rDev -0.9%
look: 3 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
3.47/5 rDev -0.9%
look: 3 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
from notes, I believe at Ferguson Bix in Calgary
A - Cloudy pink orange, arrived with no head so tough to judge
S - Faint berry hint, bready grains, light leafy
T - Tangy creamy rasperry, buttery bread, slight crisp leafy hops, cream finish
M - lightish with a some berry tartness, mild hop dry finish
O - not a bad offering from this small Alberta brewer, definitely enjoyable on a warm summer patio
Sep 20, 2012A - Cloudy pink orange, arrived with no head so tough to judge
S - Faint berry hint, bready grains, light leafy
T - Tangy creamy rasperry, buttery bread, slight crisp leafy hops, cream finish
M - lightish with a some berry tartness, mild hop dry finish
O - not a bad offering from this small Alberta brewer, definitely enjoyable on a warm summer patio
Reviewed by biboergosum from Canada (AB)
3.5/5 rDev 0%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
3.5/5 rDev 0%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
Newly available in 12oz bottles, at least at Sherbrooke Liquor Store in Edmonton, for those of us not predisposed to stopping over in that southern Alberta mountain park area after a few leg-killing days of skiing in BC.
This beer pours a seemingly unfiltered, very cloudy burnt orange amber hue, with one finger of soapy, bubbly dirty white head, which leaves some sparse blots of remote islet lace around the glass in its brief wake.
It smells of tart, greenish raspberries, natch, bready pale and caramel malt, and a faint leafy hoppiness. The taste is definitely all raspberry up front, but the muted, earthy, vegetal sort, more like what you would get from a diluted mixture of ripe and unripe berries. This soon blends quite well into a semi-sweet grainy and bready pale malt, tempered more by a pleasant leafy and earthy hoppiness, since that raspberry essence is hardly the palate-killer of other 'framboises' of note.
The carbonation is quite low-key, just a wan frothiness, the body medium-light in weight, and a bit pithily fruity in its otherwise quotidian smoothness. It finishes with a minor bit of raspberry sourness, lingering bready malt, and earthy, vegetal hops.
While this is what a real, basic raspberry-infused beer tastes like, I still feel that I need me some more intense raspberry essence. Other than that, an easy drinking, summer-friendly brew, that much is certain - and it doesn't need any frozen raspberries floating in it to make it good.
Nov 04, 2010This beer pours a seemingly unfiltered, very cloudy burnt orange amber hue, with one finger of soapy, bubbly dirty white head, which leaves some sparse blots of remote islet lace around the glass in its brief wake.
It smells of tart, greenish raspberries, natch, bready pale and caramel malt, and a faint leafy hoppiness. The taste is definitely all raspberry up front, but the muted, earthy, vegetal sort, more like what you would get from a diluted mixture of ripe and unripe berries. This soon blends quite well into a semi-sweet grainy and bready pale malt, tempered more by a pleasant leafy and earthy hoppiness, since that raspberry essence is hardly the palate-killer of other 'framboises' of note.
The carbonation is quite low-key, just a wan frothiness, the body medium-light in weight, and a bit pithily fruity in its otherwise quotidian smoothness. It finishes with a minor bit of raspberry sourness, lingering bready malt, and earthy, vegetal hops.
While this is what a real, basic raspberry-infused beer tastes like, I still feel that I need me some more intense raspberry essence. Other than that, an easy drinking, summer-friendly brew, that much is certain - and it doesn't need any frozen raspberries floating in it to make it good.
Beaver Tail Raspberry Ale from The Grizzly Paw Brewing Company
Beer rating:
82 out of
100 with
23 ratings
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