Searching for a certain beer

No idea but maybe some of our European members can help.

Shanex you up?

 

RRSniper are you talking about a Stone Brewing bottle or a ceramic stoneware bottle?

 

I bet Delirium Red is the answer. One other guess: there is a German raspberry spirit called Himbeergeist that sometimes comes in ceramic bottles. That has “beer” right in the name!

 

i was going to suggest it was a delirium beer as well.

 

Is this something he had a couple weeks ago, or while he was stationed in Germany back in the 70s?

 

Eliminating some other options, Lindemans Framboise is one of the most commonly-available raspberry beers. It’s Belgian, not German, and I’m not aware of it coming in stoneware.

Kuhnemann Raspberry Eisbock is a well-regarded (and harder to find) German-sounding beer with raspberries. But again, I don’t think it comes in stoneware.

La Guillotine doesn’t have a raspberry version, does it? That’s a Belgian Pale Ale that comes in ceramic bottles.

 

That's the one I immediately thought of. Straight-up cherry cough syrup in a stoneware bottle.

Just like revenge, best when served cold.

 

Mobile, AL has absolutely shit beer selection now, not to mention as early as 2008. Try the Lindeman Frambois. That’s a very good guess mentioned above. And, it would certainly be available there, seem German like in name, and certainly remind him of raspberries.

 

It could have been a limited release of a specialty brew to mark an occasion. Most likely from Belgium or maybe the Netherlands or even France. I just don't see any brewer in Germany brewing hopped raspberries unless he had this within the last 10-15 years. And if it was recent, it was a craft beer for sure...probably a small batch brewer. The stone bottle sounds pretty cool though. Would love to add something like that to my collection, even though I probably wouldn't drink the beer. Raspberry beer doesn't even sound nice to me.