Raspberry Brown
Lost Coast Brewery and Cafe

Raspberry BrownRaspberry Brown
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From:
Lost Coast Brewery and Cafe
 
California, United States
Style:
American Brown Ale
ABV:
6.5%
Score:
78
Avg:
3.43 | pDev: 17.2%
Reviews:
145
Ratings:
268
Status:
Active
Rated:
Feb 05, 2020
Added:
Feb 21, 2003
Wants:
  5
Gots:
  35
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Ratings by biboergosum:
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Reviewed by biboergosum from Canada (AB)

3.48/5  rDev +1.5%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3 | overall: 3.5
22oz bomber, with a plain-ass, raspberry icon-dominated label.

This beer pours a clear, rather dark bronzed amber hue, with two chubby fingers of billowy, foamy, and sudsy beige head, which leaves some decent spectral webbed lace around the glass as it slowly wisps away.

It smells of slightly roasted caramel malt, buttered toast, cocoa-tinted raspberry puree, and earthy, musty hops. The taste is fairly consistent with the aroma - toasty caramel malt, a bit of chocolate nougat, a game raspberry fruitiness, and earthy, weedy hops, all fairly deep and rich at this point.

The carbonation is a bit above average, manifesting in a swirling, somewhat edgy frothiness, the body medium-light in weight, and kind of prickly in its smoothness, perhaps in the manner of an ill-appraised raspberry bush. It finishes off-dry, the thin caramel malt and weak "framboise pas si veritable" playing well enough together.

Not the most fruit-forward raspberry beer that I've ever had, but still one of the more well integrated, neither cloying nor a victim of raspberry in absentia. Easy enough to drink, and while the underlying nut brown ale doesn't do itself any favours, it's all serviceable in its dessert-friendly renderings.
Dec 08, 2010
More User Ratings:
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Reviewed by stevoj from Idaho

3.19/5  rDev -7%
look: 3.25 | smell: 3 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3.25
Bottle from Winco. Pour is dark brown, spotty head. Aroma is raspberries, more candy than fruit. More raspberry candy in the taste, along with a nice drying feel from the brown ale. Not as sweet as you might guess from the aroma. Thin mouthfeel.
Feb 05, 2020
 
Rated: 3.47 by wc94wc from California

Jul 04, 2019
 
Rated: 4.15 by Mvondohlen from North Carolina

May 04, 2019
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Rated by FxLB from Washington

4.06/5  rDev +18.4%
look: 4 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
Raspberry smell. Taste of raspberries is mild and present with a bit of chocolate.
Mar 17, 2019
 
Rated: 3.16 by desint from Belgium

Nov 08, 2018
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Rated by Kurt49rs from California

4.29/5  rDev +25.1%
look: 4 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 4.25
I'm not a big fan of "fruity" beers, but I liked this.
Jun 25, 2018
 
Rated: 2.98 by Timcombs94 from California

May 06, 2018
 
Rated: 3.5 by tbone1384 from Wyoming

Apr 14, 2018
 
Rated: 3.5 by 1971bernat from Virginia

Jan 02, 2018
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Reviewed by matcris from Arizona

3.12/5  rDev -9%
look: 4 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 2.75 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.25
LOOKS: A slightly hazy reddish brown with a finger+ of khaki head that lasts, and leaves some mild lacing.
AROMA: Malty and raspberry sorbet.
TASTE: I think this a bit past it's prime, 'cause the raspberry flavor is really weak, the malt is very mild, as well.
FEEL: A bit watery, just not a lot of body, here. Average carbonation, and pretty dry.
OVERALL: Weak, and totally forgettable.
Nov 15, 2017
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Rated by Beerucee from Texas

3/5  rDev -12.5%
look: 3 | smell: 3 | taste: 3 | feel: 3 | overall: 3
It some kind of after taste I was not fond of. From Tucson Safeway bottle.
May 13, 2017
 
Rated: 3.83 by bshefftz from California

Apr 27, 2017
 
Rated: 2.73 by CJNAPS from California

Apr 16, 2017
 
Rated: 3 by Marvicsin from California

Mar 24, 2017
 
Rated: 3.72 by socon67 from New York

Oct 15, 2016
 
Rated: 4 by BrewskiBrandon from Missouri

Oct 06, 2016
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Rated by IDABEERGUY from Idaho

4.35/5  rDev +26.8%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
Kinda tastes like robitussin cough medicine which isn't all bad...
Aug 28, 2016
 
Rated: 2.97 by newcastlemike from Connecticut

Aug 13, 2016
 
Rated: 3.77 by LXIXME from New Mexico

Jun 07, 2016
Raspberry Brown from Lost Coast Brewery and Cafe
Beer rating: 78 out of 100 with 268 ratings