Dull sweet-tart raspberry theme gets delicately fizz-hopped, but dry-bodied fruit ale needs deeper fruit penetration, stronger wheat wafer resolve, and less soapy oxidized finish. In ’04, Pugsley Brewing (Portland, Maine) drafted similar version with honey-dripped lemony snicker detected.

Cloudy and creamy like Main Street Brown Ale, though rust-hued with tart raspberry distinction, puckered green apple parch, and floral honeysuckle whim. Fizzy wheat base lacks firmness, but luckily bittersweet raspberry puree finish doesn’t quit so easily.

Bone dry magenta-headed purplish red-bodied fruit ale spreads black raspberry soda-like thrust atop red wine spritz to effervescent Seltzer finish. Sharp oaken hops coarsen impending mouth puckered lemony sourness.

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.