Spanish Peaks Honey Raspberry Ale

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

It pours a dark-amber with thick light-tan head and no lacing. An aroma of caramel malts, raspberry, citrus, and light spice. The mouthfeel is smooth although too thin. Flavors of caramel malts, light hops, raspberry, orange/citrus, and spice. Nothing spectacular but good stuff.

Aroma: 6 | Appearance: 8 | Mouthfeel: 6 | Flavor: 7 | Overall: 7

Presentation: It was poured from a brown 12oz, long neck bottle into a pint glass. Appearance: It has a deep amber colored body with good clarity, visible carbonation and a light tan head. The head is very light and soapy. It very quickly fades down to just a very thin wispy layer. Lacing is minimal and slick. Smell: The aroma hit me with a light waft of raspberry candy as I opened the bottle. In the glass and with a proper inspection I get the same raspberry candy but with notes of honey and biscuit like malt. Taste/Palate: The flavor is very much the same as the aroma. It has a light body with a sweet malty character. There are notes of sweet honey and sweet/tart raspberry with hop flavor way off in the distance. The hop flavor just kind of picks up on the tartness of the berry and adds a very mellow subdued bitterness to the finish. Its palate feels light and silky with light somewhat fizzy carbonation. Notes: Overall it is a nice sweet and average summery beer.

Aroma: 6 | Appearance: 8 | Mouthfeel: 6 | Flavor: 7 | Overall: 7

Poured a reddish amber with a small head that quickly dissapates. Raspberries are abundant in the aroma of this fruit beer. The mouthfeel was very simple, a little watery but very fruity. Overall a decent beverage, not a typical beer but a refreshing drink.

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

Here’s a cloudy reddish ale. A small fizzy off white head sits atop, if only for a brief time. Settles quickly into a very thin ringlet around the glass. The aroma is raspberries. But then this is a fruit beer. What would you expect, but? The body is light. Big carbonation. Really sweet beer with bold in your face raspberries. Fruit beers are not my favorites. I stil hold to ‘Man’s Rule’ “No Fruit in the Beer”. But this was drinkable.

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

First go at this type of flavored beer. Very refreshing and taste very good. But the fruit taste is more than the beer taste, is more of a wine cooler than a beer. Very good beer and will have again.

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

This is a very nice well balance fruit beer Extrodanary raspberry aroma with a sweet taste with just the right amount of malt to balance out the sweet.This taste best when enjoyed as a cocktail before a meal.

Aroma: 6 | Appearance: 6 | Mouthfeel: 4 | Flavor: 5 | Overall: 5

Somehow, my brother's neighbor got ahold of a case of this stuff (I think it was payment for something) and while he's not much of a craft beer drinker, he decided to donate it to the "general" fund, meaning whoever wanted some could get it. Well, to be honest it was incredibly better at room temp than it was ice cold, but even then that temp change couldn't save it from mediocrity.

The beer pours out a reddish-amber color with a chalky white head. Aroma is muted raspberry puree and as it warmed up a much more honeyish raspberry aroma was released. Mouthfeel was mineral-water like with a ton of overcarbonation that I really dislike in beers. Flavor had some nice raspberry qualities to it but outside of that there wasn't much to enjoy. Reminded me in some ways of a carbonated fruit drink. I didn't like it enough to buy any more.

Aroma: 8 | Appearance: 8 | Mouthfeel: 3 | Flavor: 3 | Overall: 3

12 oz bottle. Pours a hazy golden orange with a huge and very fizzy head that sticks around for a while.

The aroma is strong sweet raspberries and honey.

The flavor is pretty washed out and watery with some acidic fruits and a bit of a metallic bitter finish. The mouthfeel is light bodied with a ton of sharp carbonation.

Overall, not a very good beer. I thought I might be pleasantly surprised from the look and smell of the beer. But the flavor is subdued, bland and a bit off and it's way too carbonated.

Aroma: 7 | Appearance: 6 | Mouthfeel: 6 | Flavor: 8 | Overall: 6

I picked this bad boy up at Corridor Wine in Laurel, MD while I was looking for something different. I have always seen things from Spanish Peaks on the shelf, but have never purchased any. I figured now was as good a time as any to try.

The beer has a very nice orangy brown color and a slight cloudiness to it. It had a very light head to it that quickly went away. There was no lacing at all. There was a very slight berry aroma emitting from the glass. Nothing too special.

The flavor wasn't too bad though. This definitely is one of those summer sipping beers. There is virtually no alcohol flavor to it and a very sweet mix of honey and berry is what you taste.

Bottomline, my wife would like this beer. That usually means, it's run of the mill and sweet. Not bad, just nothing I'd go crazy over.

Aroma: 8 | Appearance: 9 | Mouthfeel: 5 | Flavor: 8 | Overall: 6

Wow! This beer arrived in the glass with almost no head at all. The body was a clear medium amber with no hint of any raspberry in the hue, and well carbonated. The aroma was a nice mix of honey and raspberry as was the taste. Lovely it was. Mouthfeel was a sadly different story, being thin and almost watery. It finished with some raspberry-like tartness.