Santa Fe Sangre de Frambuesa
Santa Fe Sangre de Frambuesa
Rated 2.950 by BeerPals
Brewed by Santa Fe Brewing Company
Santa Fe, NM, United States
Style: Fruit Beer
12% Alcohol by Volume
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This hand-numbered bottle of Sangre de Frambuesa is a tribute to the Santa Fe Brewing Company's 20 year legacy of brewing traditional yet unique beers, which are as enchanting as the southwestern state in which they are brewed. By uniting the highest quality ingredients from Canada, Oregon, Germany, Belgium, and New Mexico, this unique beer marries world-class complexity with playful levity. Enjoy this beer much as you would a bottle of good champagne: in the company of friends and in the spirit of joy. Chill it well, as its exuberant effervescence may surprise you when it is opened. As this beer dances across your tongue, you will enjoy an interplay of bright tart, sweet, spicy, and fruity flavors that bubble out of a crisp, dry body, linger for a moment, and eventually fade into a warm afterglow. The Sangre de Frambuesa is as close as anyone in the world has ever come to bottling a Santa Fe sunset.
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| Overall Rank | 48006 |
| Overall Percentile | 13.6 |
| Style Rank | 1099 of 1467 |
| Style Percentile | 25.1 |
| Lowest Score | 2.8 |
| Highest Score | 2.8 |
| Average Score | 2.800 |
| Weighted Score | 2.950 |
| Standard Deviation | 0.000 |
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Aroma: 8 | Appearance: 7 | Mouthfeel: 3 | Flavor: 5 | Overall: 5
Bottle 243 of 3156; Sampled July 2009
Well, I always seem to have one or two of this in the back of the beer fridge. I beer I am absolutely dreading opening. The last one was Dogfish Head’s Fort, similarly again is another, likely too sweet, raspberry beer. A solid pour nets me a frothy, three-finger thick, pink tinged, dirty off-white colored head. The beer is a deep, dark plum red color that shows a clear, bright red color when held up to the light. Sweet, candied raspberry notes are the first thing I notice about the aroma. No matter how hard I try though, I can’t really notice anything else about the nose; there is perhaps a touch of alcohol warming here, but this is actually fairly tame considering the strength of this beer.The beer is not quite as sweet as I had feared; in fact it is quite dry for a beer of this strength. Up front there is a light raspberry note, but unfortunately this just takes a wrong turn somewhere. The finish is actually foul tasting; it tastes of rotting raspberries and chemically harsh raspberry extract. A bit of hot alcohol in the finish even adds a touch of tartness (though this light tartness is also likely added by the raspberries). The base beer isn’t overly noticeable here (this tastes mostly of rancid raspberries and vodka), but there is a touch of toasty malt character that comes through from time to time. This beer is actually pretty light bodied (especially given its strength) and this couples pretty well with the effervescent carbonation, but somehow it still leaves me wanting a bit more (this is likely the fault of the flavor more than anything, but I can’t stop it from influencing the texture as well).
The aroma of this beer is not bad if you really like raspberries, the flavor however just isn’t something that I want to be drinking, though I might of used a bit of hyperbole is stating how bad it is. How this ever won an award at GABF is beyond me. This beer is not the worst thing ever, but I was certainly rightly afraid to open it up. Santa Fe is brewing some really interesting and tasty beers, unfortunately this is not one of them (though it is interesting I suppose).
