Raspberry Wild One | Bell's Brewery - Eccentric Café & General Store

4.19/5  rDev -3.5%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25

4.25/5  rDev -2.1%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25

4.56/5  rDev +5.1%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4.75 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.5

4.54/5  rDev +4.6%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4.75 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.5

4.25/5  rDev -2.1%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25

4/5  rDev -7.8%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4

4.25/5  rDev -2.1%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25

4.34/5  rDev 0%
look: 4 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25

i have to confess, i had no idea bells made beer like this, and this really just blew my mind! i have seen the occasional wild beer from them at festivals and such, but nothing packaged, and nothing of this caliber. it looks lighter than any brown ive seen, strange to see that in the listing here, its soft pink in color, valentines day looking, with a short almost white head on it, not like many browns out there. aroma and flavor dont have much of that chocolate malt thing going on either, its far lighter than that on the grain side. instead, its driven by the fruit and the yeast in equal parts, with a nod to the yeast because its so interesting and delicious. the berries are jammy and tart at the same time, really capturing the essence of the entire fruit, without it ever seeming sugary. the yeast is amazing, bretty and funky and drying and mature, the kind of wild beer i really have come to love, and there is a pop of pucker here too, decent acidity pushing sourness, but wild wins over sharp, and it seems complete, whole, and fully satisfying. brilliant carbonation is cool too, it truly sings on the tongue, almost to the point where i dont want to swallow it, but of course i do. gorgeous packaging as well, a new high point for bells in many ways! absolutely loved this.

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4.29/5  rDev -1.2%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.25

4.25/5  rDev -2.1%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25

3.73/5  rDev -14.1%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.75

Pretty gross

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4.25/5  rDev -2.1%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25

3.5/5  rDev -19.4%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5

4/5  rDev -7.8%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4

4.4/5  rDev +1.4%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.5

4.02/5  rDev -7.4%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4

4.37/5  rDev +0.7%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25

4.19/5  rDev -3.5%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25

4.26/5  rDev -1.8%
look: 3.5 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4

Where was this one FW Invitational2? Pours looking similar to Supplication, its a brown base beer with red fruit mixed in giving it more levity. Aroma smacks of sourness. Some fruitiness there, can't really make a distinct impression whether I'm getting more raspberry or cherry or other unidentified fruit if smelling this blindly. Blindly? Is that only for sight or can you have a blind smelling?

Anyways, I really dug the taste, even more than regular Wild One. Has that fruitiness and sourness that takes away from the brown ale base. Wouldn't know if you didn't see the color/read about it. Easy to drink, clean, refreshing. A hint of leather, not heavy.

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4.65/5  rDev +7.1%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.75 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.75

4/5  rDev -7.8%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4

4.25/5  rDev -2.1%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25

4.57/5  rDev +5.3%
look: 5 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.75 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.5

750 ml bottle served in a Teku - Cork removal was not an easy task......worked up a thirst

Opaque redish maroon look

The aroma was of Raspberry and oak.

Taste was a wild tart raspberry bomb with a vinegar lemon funky finish...........Sour Yumminess

Medium body with a perfect amount of carbination

I really enjoyed this beer and look forward to trying after cellaring one for awhile

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4.49/5  rDev +3.5%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.5

4.27/5  rDev -1.6%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25