Whale Cake - Raspberry
Burlington Beer Co.
- From:
- Burlington Beer Co.
- Vermont, United States
- Style:
- Cream Ale
Ranked #79 - ABV:
- 5.5%
- Score:
- 85
Ranked #28,180 - Avg:
- 3.76 | pDev: 7.71%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 7
- Status:
- Active
- Rated:
- Aug 11, 2023
- Added:
- Aug 02, 2018
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
SCORE
85
Very Good
85
Very Good
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Reviewed by PSanger from Connecticut
3.37/5 rDev -10.4%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.5
3.37/5 rDev -10.4%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.5
This beer doesn’t have a good flavor. I am hesitant to crush this beer because I think a lot of the poor taste has to do with the raspberry and I know they make this beer with other fruits. The raspberry just doesn’t work well. All aspects
Aug 03, 2023
Reviewed by stevoj from Idaho
3.12/5 rDev -17%
look: 3 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3 | feel: 3 | overall: 3
3.12/5 rDev -17%
look: 3 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3 | feel: 3 | overall: 3
16oz can from Half Time. Dark pink pour, cloudy, relatively flat. Raspberry aroma, jam. Taste is more berries, but not as robust as the aroma. Gets a bit tinny towards the finish, and dries quite a bit as well.
Aug 19, 2021
Reviewed by dele from Massachusetts
3.43/5 rDev -8.8%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
3.43/5 rDev -8.8%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
A month-old 16 ounce can, poured into a tulip glass. The beer is a deep pink/light red color, not hazy, with plenty of effervescence. It's pretty.
The aroma is straight raspberry, with a touch of bready malt typical of a cream ale.
The beer tastes like raspberries and not a lot else. A light, crisp mouthfeel and a pretty simple palate - not bad at all, just simple.
Based on the word cake in the name, I was expecting this beer to be sweet. It wasn't, and I'm glad. It's a good summer drinker, but there are much better summer drinkers out there for much cheaper than this one.
Jun 14, 2021The aroma is straight raspberry, with a touch of bready malt typical of a cream ale.
The beer tastes like raspberries and not a lot else. A light, crisp mouthfeel and a pretty simple palate - not bad at all, just simple.
Based on the word cake in the name, I was expecting this beer to be sweet. It wasn't, and I'm glad. It's a good summer drinker, but there are much better summer drinkers out there for much cheaper than this one.
Reviewed by jrc1093 from Connecticut
3.03/5 rDev -19.4%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 2.75 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 2.75
3.03/5 rDev -19.4%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 2.75 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 2.75
Canned on 7/17/20
Pours a nearly opaque, deep cherry red body capped with ¾ of a finger of frothy, off-white/light pink foam; below-average head retention leaves a wispy layer of cap, thin collar, and webby rings of lacing sparse around the glass.
Aroma opens with fresh raspberry and vague cereal grains, transitioning to watery malt tones fairly quickly and accented with distant hints of red berry skins and sweet bread; raspberry continues to brighten and dominate the back end of the bouquet; notes of raspberry shaved ice and cooked corn hover in a secondary role.
Taste shows fresh raspberry and vague cereal grains upfront transitioning to husky malt tones and ginger ale fairly quickly over the mid-palate, with distant hints of red berry skins and sweet bread on the back end and edges of cooked corn past the swallow.
Mouthfeel brings a body just a shade above light, bolstered a slight, grainy heft and accentuated with a mild-moderate carbonation; a lowkey spritz across the palate offers consistency, while a juicy, fruit texture brightens a graininess on the finish.
Fairly authentic raspberry is dominant throughout as the cream ale base flutters in and out of focus along the way; nothing quite comes together, making even the stronger fruit presence pass as almost vague. Inoffensive overall, but this one doesn't win any points for being so tepid.
Sep 02, 2020Pours a nearly opaque, deep cherry red body capped with ¾ of a finger of frothy, off-white/light pink foam; below-average head retention leaves a wispy layer of cap, thin collar, and webby rings of lacing sparse around the glass.
Aroma opens with fresh raspberry and vague cereal grains, transitioning to watery malt tones fairly quickly and accented with distant hints of red berry skins and sweet bread; raspberry continues to brighten and dominate the back end of the bouquet; notes of raspberry shaved ice and cooked corn hover in a secondary role.
Taste shows fresh raspberry and vague cereal grains upfront transitioning to husky malt tones and ginger ale fairly quickly over the mid-palate, with distant hints of red berry skins and sweet bread on the back end and edges of cooked corn past the swallow.
Mouthfeel brings a body just a shade above light, bolstered a slight, grainy heft and accentuated with a mild-moderate carbonation; a lowkey spritz across the palate offers consistency, while a juicy, fruit texture brightens a graininess on the finish.
Fairly authentic raspberry is dominant throughout as the cream ale base flutters in and out of focus along the way; nothing quite comes together, making even the stronger fruit presence pass as almost vague. Inoffensive overall, but this one doesn't win any points for being so tepid.
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