Slushy - Raspberry Dessert
450 North Brewing Company

 

Sweet and tart raspberry, cinnamon pie crust nose on this one! Taste follows with a cinnamon and berry-vanilla smoothie vibe...flavors a bit muddled on the finish. The tartness is subdued a bit. This is really soft and viscous on the palate. This is good, just not as raspberry dominant as I was expecting.

Had on tap. The first beer I have tried by 450, even with their abv issues, I have a morbid curiosity with these slushy beers. Pours a slushy thick reddish violet, it really is something, points for pushing the boundaries in my book. Smells strongly of raspberry, brown sugar, and cinnamon with some pie dough, vanilla, and lactose., very sweet and fruity. Taste was more muddled, raspberry starred, but where I hoped the brown sugar and cinnamon would elevate the beer, it weighed it down. Feel is slightly tart, sweet, thick, and well a slushy. Feels a little gimmicky, but people need to lighten up and have fun once in a while.

L: Right off the bat, this thing looks straight up like a pulpy puree. Thick, full bodied and murky. Color is just like the color represented on the can. About a finger of head on the pour with a decent amount of sludgy sediment. Mild amounts of residual lacing.
S: Smells extremely juicy with raspberry being the star of the show. Vanilla and graham cracker is also detectible with soft sweet undertones lended by the brown sugar and lactose. Smells sweet, tart, and subtly spicy from the cinnamon. Overall, I can't really knock it, since all the ingredients are detectible on the nose. The more I smell it, the more rounded out it is presented.
T: I literally haven't had anything like it. First off, this is hardly a beer. It has a greater potential to passing as an elementary school drink than a beer. In all seriousness, 450 nailed that flavor of a raspberry dessert slushy. Everything the berliner is made with is detectible. Raspberry tartness throughout the whole flavor, vanilla and lactose at finish, with cinnamon, brown sugar and raspberry lingering in the after taste. It is rather sweet, but luckily the tartness tends to balance it out. Brown sugar really comes out as it warms up.
F: DUMMY THICC. Thick, full bodied, viscous, pulpy and sludgy. It works really well here.
O: 450 made something exactly as advertised - a raspberry dessert smoothie-styled berliner. I appreciate I can detect and pick out everything it is made with. I am splitting it with the wife and we are both taken aback by how different it is; can't say I've ever had anything like it. It is hype right now, but I'll try anything from 450 I can get. I am very glad to try, and the wife approves. Cheers!

 

God god. A blood thick brick red pour builds a puffy magenta-pink head that jiggles and settles slowly, leaving cobwebs of raspberry pulp stuck all over the glass like oily stretch marks. I literally don't know whether to hate or love the appearance.

Raspberry Dessert is the ridiculous pastry sour it wants to be. Visually thick, chunky and pulpy raspberry puree actually glides smoothly and roundly on the palate. Still thick, but velvetty. Notes of cinnamon graham and vanilla spiked pie crust meet the juicy sweet berries before a wet, only mildly clunky finish.