Garrison Raspberry Wheat

Aroma: 5 | Appearance: 7 | Mouthfeel: 6 | Flavor: 6 | Overall: 7

6-pack from the NSLC in Halifax. Pours a clean golden colour with a very slight pink hue haze. Raspberry juice aromas over light grain. The raspberry fruit is milder in the taste, showing more the cereal graininess in the finish. Refreshing, grainy and decent fruitiness for this average Raspberry Wheat brew.

Aroma: 6 | Appearance: 5 | Mouthfeel: 5 | Flavor: 6 | Overall: 5

Bottle: Poured a light pinkish color ale with a medium size foamy head with average retention and light lacing. Aroma of light raspberry with some enhance syrup is not the most exciting; wheat malt do no play a big role in this beer. Taste is also dominated by light raspberry notes with a subtle tart profile with a light background of raspberry syrup and a bland malt profile. Body is a bout average for style with medium carbonation. Mediocre offering from a brewer that is known to brew better beer.

Aroma: 7 | Appearance: 7 | Mouthfeel: 7 | Flavor: 7 | Overall: 7

A decent enough Wheat beer, with some interesting hints. Nice colour and aroma. Very sweet on the attack but subtle. Very decent but still an acquired taste.

Aroma: 6 | Appearance: 7 | Mouthfeel: 6 | Flavor: 7 | Overall: 7

Fresh, sampled at the brewery. Color is a darker gold-amber with no hint of red from real fruit so I assume extracts were used. Small wheat protien heading and light lacing on the glass. Aroma was interesting bread and berry fruits with a light mustiness Medium light body delivers a decent malt backbone under a refreshing biscuit and fruit character and silky mouthfeel Malty and bicuity up front mingles with a subdued rasperry taste to give a biscuit and fruit decernment. Clean finish with light biscuit aftertaste. I usually unfriendly to fruit extract beers but this one has kept the fruit in the background and allows some excellent wheat and barley malts to come forward...very biscuity and fruity...nice effort

Aroma: 8 | Appearance: 8 | Mouthfeel: 9 | Flavor: 9 | Overall: 9

If you are a fan of fruit beers then this is a solid choice. I found the fruit essences subtle enough to drink an entire 6-pack in an afternoon. It is a nice, refreshing hot weather beer. Definitely a pounder, and not bad for people who are not 100% sold on beer.