Raspberry DriBeer
Browary Warmińsko-Mazurskie Jurand Sp. Z O.o.

Got this for free, somone pawned it off on me. Thought I'd give it a shot, its free.

Poured from a 500ml bottle into a mug. 1 finger champagne like white head. The beer looks like apple cider in a transparent golden orange color.
Small webs of lace and zero retention.

Aroma is actually quite good. Sweet rasberry aroma, mixed with a nice lager like smell. Almost smells like Heineken in rasberries.

Wayyy to sweet up front. I feel like I'm drinking intensely sweetend soda with a big shockwave of carbonation. This is just too sweet. There is a bit more Heineken like flavors in the backround, but any other flavors that want to come out of this are killed with over sweetend rasberries.

I'll pass on buying this, but would drink it if it was the only think to drink on a desert island.

1.99 for 500ml...why not, eh?

Body is champagne mixed with water. Head is small, like 1/2 a finger (which may not be too bad a sign for a style generally brimming with noxious, gas flavored carbonation) and stark white. Lacing is less than moderate. Looks like a Euro lager.

Sort of interesting; nose is a mixture of buttered toast, raspberries, and skunk. Is it the green glass of the bottle that does the skunk, and is it supposed to smell this way on purpose? Anyways, I will say that the smell is intriguing and above average for Euro lagers.

Odd taste. Less skunky than anticipated, malts are warm and sweet, yet not overdoing it. Raspberry is sugary sweet, which leads me to believe some kind of sweetener was added, though it doesn't taste to syrupy to me. Skunk is in the back of the palate leaving a strange, though not altogether unpleasant salt aftertaste; skunk is not overpowering at all. While it isn't as bad in the areas I predicted it would be based on reading other reviews, that is where the flavor ends. No further complexity is noted stopping this beer a bit short.

I have no complaints on mouth. Not as watery as it appears, and a step above other Euro lagers, the mouthfeel for this brew is a little light. Too light for the style? Just a tad.

Man, if you know a guy that loves Heineken then get him/her this brew. It is better than a Heini, I'll give it that. Also, considering the price I'm not unhappy to have bought this brew. I would like to try it without the raspberry, however, and see if the lack of sugar affects it at all. If it didn't, then I would be happy to see this on tap (raspberry free) at a local non-beer savy bar in place of Heineken, Becks, or other hard to pronounced Eastern European brews (I'm looking at you Zwyciekwhatever!).

$1.99 for a 500ml bottle. 4.7% ABV per the green bottle. Pours out to a sparkingly clear peach with aubrun accents, forming a rocky white head with average retention and moderate lacing. Moderate carbonation. The aroma is quite peculiar, but in a good way. Skunked, and when swirled, I get this cheesy/wheaty grain husk nose, then a touch of raspberry, then more raspberry, then a suggestion of mead and husky amber English Ale yeast, akin to Traverse Brewing Co. Manitou amber ale. Quite interesting, and I have to admit, I like it. Mouthfeel is somewhat flimsy, medium-light with a syrupy, cloying mouthfeel. Taste begins with sickeningly sweet, sugary raspberry flavor and lots of aspartame. And that's pretty much where it ends as well. Very unidimensional, and very artificial tasting. Mild hop extract bitterness is in there somewhere.

Hrmmm, barely able to finish this one. Nice nose, but it's way to sweet. Stay away.

Poured from the bottle into a pint glass, beer is a clear peachy-bronze color with a thin, soapy, white head. The smell is definitely of raspberries and has a slight graininess to it as well. Initial taste reaction - metallic. I'm not sure if it's the green bottle or the fact that there is no expo or possibly even that it came all the way from Poland and who knows what happened in between. Anyways, I can't imagine this is how the beer is supposed to taste. It has a sweet raspberry taste, with a dry, grainy finish that isn't very nice. The skunkyness is killing this one for me. The mouthfeel is very light and has a good amount of carbonation. This beer was bad, I like to think this bottle had a hard life and most of the stock would be better than this, but I have to rate the drinkability lower than I would due to the horrible taste.

Pale peach with straw colored edges. I was expecting something with a little more red in it. The two finger cap is bone white, has a creamy texture and melts in an appealing fashion. Wavery rings of lace settle hesitantly on the glass. Even though it doesn't look much like raspberries, this is a decent looking beer all told.

The nose smells like raspberries left too long in a stainless steel drum. I'll have to give it credit, though, for actually smelling like the fruit in question. Besides, the unpleasant part of the aroma isn't that unpleasant. I'm excited because DriBeer might be a second decent offering from a brewery whose last few beers (that I've reviewed) have been somewhere between fair and horrible.

Sorry to say that the flavor is much closer to horrible. How is it possible to mess up a simple raspberry beer so completely? It's sickly sweet and tastes like a large quantity of saccharine was used to get it there (due to the bitterness that's right alongside the sweetness).

I'm amazed that the quality of the raspberry flavor is so much more artificial on the palate than it was in the nose. DriBeer tastes like a Eurotrash alcopop gone bad. Of course that assumes there's such a thing as a good Eurotrash alcopop. One of my rules is that any beer that causes an involuntary grimace gets no higher than the flavor score that I've given this one.

The mouthfeel is both light-medium and syrupy at the same time, an interesting combination. Other than a short spritz of carbonation when beer hits mouth, there aren't many bubbles to go around. In short, the mouthfeel is just about as offputting as the flavor.

It looks like Kozlak Bock Beer is the only decent drinker from this boil on the buttocks of Polish brewing known as Browary Warminsko-Mazurskie Jurand. In fact, after drinking most of the rest of their lineup, I'm beginning to question my praise of that beer. Raspberry DriBeer is one of the worst fruit beers that I've ever had. Two thumbs waaay down.

Pours to a straw color with a pinkish hue. Just has a ring of white for a head, and leaves spotty lacing. It has a pretty steady flow of carbonation.

The aroma is well, of raspberries and a toasted, bready malt background. Not a bad aroma.

The flavor is sweet up front of raspberries, it then flows to a toasted bready maltiness.

It is a bit too syrupy and cloying for me, and that detracts from the drinkability. Overwise I don't find it too bad. If you took away the raspberry it would be a good drinking lager beer.

This bottle was drank to kick off last night's tasting. Not necessarily a horrible beer, but I would not want to drink it again.

The beer pours to a clear pink color with a light pink head that fizzles out to nothing in seconds. None too impressive, particularly for somebody who isn't a fan of fruit beer.

The smell is just as I suspected. Rasberry, masking a crap Polish lager aroma. A fair bit vegetal, but mostly just the rasberry coming through.

The taste is a slight bit tart with rasberry at first, but as it progresses through the palate more of the vegetal flavors reveal themselves. It finishes very dry with a mix of fruit and veggie flavors. Interesting, but not necessarily good.

Chilled 500ml bottle poured into snifter. Bottle purchased for $2.09 at B&B liquors in Grand Rapids, MI.

Appearance: Frothy bubbles surge while pouring, they dissapate quickly to a little skim of bubbles on the surface. light peach color.

Smell: fragrant aroma of raspberries, I can picture them in my mind when I smell this. great smell.

Taste: sweet beginning, slightly tart middle, and an unfulfilling finish. it tastes a bit like a cheap candy. If it had a lambic beer sourness it would be much better. no trace of hops.

Mouthfeel: very thin, very bubbly, a little too bubbly for me.

A good beer for beginners, to show them that there is a beer out there they can drink. It is too sweet to want to drink more than one bottle, but I dont mind it.

(Served in a strange)

A- This beer pours a crystal clear pink Champagne body with a feverish carbonation racing to the surface. The head is a big white cloud that is pretty rocky with large bubbles rather quickly.

S- The smell of fresh raspberries with a slight sweet and tart note dominates the smell. A faint hint of green hops at the finish is barely noticeable.

T- The flavor of sweet red raspberries is strong with a faint creamy taste and a carbonic bite to the finish. There isn't any more depth than that in this beer. No malt or grain flavors noted.

M- This beer has a light mouthfeel with a big fizz texture that makes a creamy note. There is a fizz bite at the finish aswell.

D- This is a raspberry soda with a splash of alcohol. I was intrigued by the label and letdown by what was inside.

$3.00 gamble from Case & Keg World in Boca, FL.

Pours like a craggy clear champagne with true cranberry pink hues loaded with carbonation and topped with a sparky ivory smattering head cap. If you don't mind your brew with a pink hue, then 3.5.

Floral clean wood bouquet of dry straw and of course some snappy berry mix. Slightly wine cooler-esque with a sugary fruit tart juice.

First swigs: Vacilating raspberry and cherry 7-Up, eventually settling for a berry cooler style.

Feel is bright carbonation, zesty and clean crisp. Towards the finish of a 500 mL bottle, this is a sugary cloying throat choker.

Last swigs: Nothing too Earth shattering. Just a clean delicate floral berry blend beer. Some have done it better (like Sly Fox) and some have done worse. Nary an off flavor, albeit thin. If you stumble across it, check it out for kicks.

Beer is good. Happy beering.

Pours a reddish orange color with white head. Nose is dominated by raspberries with a little grassy bits as well. Very raspberry flavours almost tastes like slushie syrup. Very sweet followed by an odd tartness that puckers the lips. Very peculiar mouthfeel, not pleasant. Eh, iffy beer at best.

Clear, very pale orange color, with a thick white head, slowly settling...
Aroma, bright fruit, nice, and little tartness...pretty enough...
Taste: like Kool-Aid, sickly sweet, tart, yet overly treacly, syrupy...medium-bodied, at best, light fruity finish...
not quite a beer, though...kind of sad... not sure why they made this, or imported it...no "Mike's" in Poland?...
I'll stop here...nothing to reccommend it, nothing to talk about ...move along...

Very clear orangey amber appearance, white head struggles in an open chalice. Small dots for lacing. Has a berry aroma but with some annoying sulfurous qualities as well. This comes through in the flavor as well, there's a highly sweetened raspberry sense going on, but its mixed with an eggy quality. Initially spritzy mouthfeel, gets thicker later. Finishes with less of a distinctness, less flavor and some standard-grade honey cloying notes. What an odd brew, in some cases, it mixes the wrong things at almost exactly the wrong time. Not a fan of this one, myself.

Pours an odd light brown/pink body, with a sizable bubbly white head. Smells strongly of raspberry candy, and possibly a small amount of malt. Taste is grainy and malty, but has a strong raspberry flavor thatbegins very sweet and candy-like, and finishes tart and sour. A very oddly flavored beer, brightly flavored, but not cloying or bad. This beer does help fulfill my lifelong goal of drinking a Polish raspberry beer. ;-)