Brewed with a mixture of black and red raspberries this is a well balanced beer. Brewery publications say that the raspberries are pureed and added to the secondary fermentation. Definitely a wheat beer, though, it is cloudy and darkish with red overtones. The beer also has that crisp wheaty bite in the flavor. However, the wheat is offset by a pleasant berry influence (not as strong as in Celis Raspberry, but definitely one of the major flavors). The berries are also detectible in the nose.
The brewery describes this beer as "Medium in body, medium in color, sweet and well balanced throughout. It uses crystal malts to give the caramel and chocolate flavor and has a low hopping rate to create a nice clean finish."
The brewery describes this beer as "Medium in body, light to medium in color (copper color), a mildly hoppy beer with a mild finish. A British pale...uses Fuggles and Chinook but still retains a strong malt characteristic."
A copper colored ale with a more balanced approach to the IPA style. I've found most microbrewed IPAs to
be quite hoppy indeed (not that I'm complaining). This one, however, has a pleasant dose of Chinook
for the bittering phase and good old Cascade in the aroma (not a classic IPA hop to be sure, but tasty none the less). The
malty overtones are not buried in the hops, though. While it could use a dose of woodiness, overall a nice beer.
Curiously, the brewery describes this as an American Pale Ale in their promotions, which would be a more acceptable name for the beer, in my opinion.