Precarious tart raspberry entry fades as shrill hop coarsening and washed-out soapiness outdo ancillary cranberry, cherry, strawberry and green grape souring to blandly astringent fruit finish.

Cloy Shandy-like Anheuser-Busch offshoot (with fluffy pink head sitting atop opaque magenta body) mistaken for fruity soda pop. Corn syrupy raspberry tartness allows tertiary pineapple-candied cherry, blueberry and strawberry sugaring to saturate champagne-fizzed misfire. Unassuming 8% alcohol volume will attract wine cooler crowd.

Blandly watered-down raspberry tartness reaches acrid Seltzer-fizzed solvency, neutralizing light 4% alcohol volume. Minor acidity slips into auxiliary cranberry wisp, dismissive cider souring, washed-out lemon-drop snip and teasing floral whim. White wheat spine can’t hold water. Barely betters fruitier low-alcohol beers from myopic mainstream macrobrew mavens. Serve with woodruff syrup to increase raspberry flavor.

Decent summer-fruited malt beverage posing as Belgian-styled witbier brings up-front raspberry-seeded rasp to coriander-spiced honeyed wheat spine. Candied soda-like red grape, watermelon, cherry, and peach subsidy underscores durable raspberry puree lacquering, becoming slightly cloy. A ‘sunsational’ summer shandy.

Ripe mega-raspberry theme and chambord liqueur mouthfeel counteract dry eye-squinting lime-like brimstone aromatics of opaque magenta-bodied pink-headed soda-popped fruit ale. Tart cranberry pucker overrides candied apple sweetness, medicinal black cherry coughdrop slurp, and pureed strawberry-blackberry pasting. Syrupy malt extract emulates carbonated soft drink for better or worse.

Losing none of its tart raspberry luster in bottled version, this medium-bodied amber-hued fruit beer picks up lemony cranberry sourness and wavered floral tinge above thin wheat base.

Floral perfume-hopped Pez-like raspberry tartness and soda-like alco-pop flow cannot overcome musty cereal-grained murk. Prickly carbolic fizz buries sweet wheat backbone while minor soapiness restrains lime-y mineral frolic. On second tasting, creamier caramel malts, tarter raspberry insistence, and tertiary blackberry-boysenberry-cranberry-black cherry illusions upped rating.

Sharp hop-fizzed ale flawed by over-carbonation and acidic nature. Pour slowly to avoid fluffy white head overload so as it settles the off-dry raspberry caress seeps forward better and pre-empts the waning grain-malt mesh. Mistakenly substitutes soft and sudsy for rich and creamy, retaining ample aromatic raspberry tartness.

Honeyed copper-hazed amber ale picks up raspy raspberry seed tartness and sour black cherry resin as caramelized biscuit-y wheat bottom sweetens mellowed hops. But soap-watered finish sterilizes any up-front stability. Note: In 2004, finer California version sampled.

Sweet raspberry tartness overwhelms dry pomegranate parch of clear straw bantamweight malt beverage. Some unripe white grape and cranberry undertones get strewn about thin wheat-husked backend. Gently fizzed lemon-limed seltzer-watered mouthfeel becomes artificially sweetened then completely washed-out.

Full-bodied fruit ale retains rich wheat base relegating explosive champagne-like fizz and faded bittersweet raspberry tartness. Not as distinct as better Star Brews. Brewery defunct: 2003.