Purple Haze - Abita Brewing Co.

taez555

Massachusetts

4/5  rDev +24.2%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4

This beer poured a small white head that died down pretty quickly. It had an orange/tan/reddish hue with a whole bunch of white specs floating in it. It sort of looked like gelatin or the fine bubbles in an ice cube that just hung motionless in place. Very odd.

The nose had a candy sweet raspberry smell. Almost like cough syrup, but at the same time a firm sugary sweet malt smell.

The taste was very smooth. HIghly carbonated. Surprisingly very malty with a lot of earthy hop flavor. Some soft citrus bitterness. Faint earth and wood. The raspberry flavor is actually in the background. Deffinatly present, but not as pronounced as you might expect. And it actually had an almost natural raspberry flavor.

The beer ended with a firm citrus bitterness.

Overall not a bad beer. Not what I expected at all. Very malty and easy drinking with a touch of raspberry.

Serving type: bottle

08-26-2003 07:13:32 | More by taez555

StevieW

Florida

2.73/5  rDev -15.2%
look: 2.5 | smell: 2.5 | taste: 3 | feel: 2.5 | overall: 2.5

On tap at the Tap House sportspub in Birmingham, AL.
Fizzy dull dark yellow, not quite the shine to be golden. Small white tight head, faded fast. Mixed smell of fruit punch, faint raspberries, and grains. Sweet syrupy taste breaks through, then fades. Some more raspberry flavors settles in. Flat, light carbonation and prickly sweetness. Not very refreshing. Overly slick. Sampled 2x while in Birmingham. Maybe there is a bad batch out there, but this one was a dissapointment.

Serving type: on-tap

08-23-2003 00:48:07 | More by StevieW

kelticblood

Massachusetts

3.33/5  rDev +3.4%
look: 3.5 | smell: 4 | taste: 3 | feel: 4 | overall: 3

Started out with a good looking head that reduced to almost nothing.Has an appealing color with a thin white head,Very cloudy with tons of junk floating around.I hope its wheat and not dead yeast.Very pungent raspberry nose thats very tart smelling.Color is a straw yellow.Foaming mouthfeel that leaves a "full" feeling in the stomach.No traces of lacing left.The raspberry flavor isnt that good.The aroma of raspberry makes the taste a big let down.Crisply carbonated thats easy to swallow.Its OK in my opinion.I wouldnt buy it again nor would I reccomend it.Maybe real raspberries instead of raspberry flavoring would make it better.

Serving type: bottle

07-29-2003 17:50:53 | More by kelticblood

86MonteSS

Connecticut

3.13/5  rDev -2.8%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3 | feel: 3 | overall: 3

I seriously think I could have thrown some rasberry extract in a glass of PBR and gotten the same results. The "wheat" mentioned on the label is barely detectable, much less delectable HAHAHAHA... ugh. Where am I going with this... Oh yeah, if I was in the mood for something fruity I'd eat a banana, dangit. I was really disappointed with Purple Haze, but maybe I expected too much. It's a cheap beer with a very slight rasberry taste. Nothing more, perhaps a little less.

Serving type: bottle

07-23-2003 03:11:42 | More by 86MonteSS

nixhecks

Rhode Island

3.33/5  rDev +3.4%
look: 3 | smell: 3 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3 | overall: 3.5

Purple Haze poured a cidery brown color, clouded with unappetizing chunks of sediment, and a weak, foamy white head. Aroma is light, a tiny bit of raspberry and banana. The taste is also very light, nice and fruity without being too much so, with a slightly sour aftertaste. Not extraordinary for a rasp-wheat, but not bad either.

Serving type: bottle

07-22-2003 23:57:09 | More by nixhecks

AtLagerHeads

Ohio

3.33/5  rDev +3.4%
look: 3 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3 | overall: 3

This is a murky amber brew with a minimal white head that dissipated much too quickly leaving only small hunks of lace on the glass. The aroma is definitely impressed with a raspberry presence and this carries through into the taste, a fruity presence that overlayed the wheat base. This is an ejoyable beer that fruit beer drinkers will enjoy in the good old summertime.

Serving type: on-tap

07-20-2003 00:25:39 | More by AtLagerHeads

Dogbrick

Ohio

3.23/5  rDev +0.3%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3 | feel: 3 | overall: 3.5

Pours a light and murky amber color with a medium off-white head. Decent lacing. Aroma is raspberries of course, but really nothing else. It might have something to do with the fact that I was building a deck in almost 90 degree temperatures, but I found this to be pretty easy to drink. Light bodied and very crisp, and fortunately the raspberry flavor is not as overwhelming as it is in other beers of this type. Clean finish. Nothing award-winning in my book but a passable summer beer.

Serving type: bottle

06-25-2003 06:37:34 | More by Dogbrick

feloniousmonk

Minnesota

3.2/5  rDev -0.6%
look: 3 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3 | feel: 3 | overall: 3.5

Quite a fun name, nice little gimmick, but, hey, how's the beer?

Appearance: a hazy pale orange color, with an initially fluffy white head, that's quick to crumble away.

Aroma: sweet and fruity, definitely berryish, the pure stamp of raspberries, comingled with the wheaty, yeast, citric nature of a hefe weizen. But, as a hefe weizen, it falls severely short. As an American HW, flavored with fruit, not terrible.

Decent texture, light body, extraordinarily drinkable, tasty, smooth, but all in all uneventful.
That does the trick sometimes though, and I'm sure this would be quite a hit with the ladies at the beach.

Serving type: bottle

06-14-2003 01:40:30 | More by feloniousmonk

Stubbie1

Connecticut

3.03/5  rDev -5.9%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3 | feel: 3 | overall: 2.5

This “Purple Haze” pours a nice light golden yellow. A fat head gave away to a thin lace. The aroma is raspberries, nothing else. The aroma is not overpowering like most fruit beers. The taste is a touch of wheat with the raspberries and a bitter finish with hops. The raspberry flavor washed away to nothing after the swallow. It started out nice but ended up watery. I was hoping for a bit more fruit in the taste. The watery finish doesn’t make me want to drink more so it is low in drinkability. Overall not bad, average or a bit above.

Serving type: bottle

05-26-2003 16:28:30 | More by Stubbie1

Jarod

Pennsylvania

3.25/5  rDev +0.9%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3 | overall: 3

Best by date of 06/29/2003
Brewed with spring water

This beer poured into the glass peachy in color that was fairly cloudy. It produced a minimal head that lasted a whole two seconds then formed a slight skim and ring along the surface. Very little lace to none was found on the edges of the glass. The aroma was fairly light. Noses of tart fresh raspberries, wheat grain, bread and a slight malt at the end. The taste was also fairly light and simple, flavors of light raspberries, wheat, grains, bread and bitter hops all were present. The over all feeling of this beer was it was watery and the flavors were overly diluted. I liked the raspberries and wheat combination just wish that they were combined better to give a crispier feel to it. Drinkable, but there are better fruit beers out there to try first.

Serving type: bottle

05-24-2003 06:27:35 | More by Jarod

tavernjef

Minnesota

3.68/5  rDev +14.3%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 4

Color is cloudy pale yellow, white fizzy head faded fast leaving a skim of whisper light white haze on top that stuck around the whole glass and had some very small spotty lace. Smell is mostly wheat, pretty sharp with a very slight note of raspberry. Taste completely mirrors the smell with lots of malted wheat, a tad breadish with a ever so slight presense of raspberry. Has a zesty sweet sharpness thats dulled a bit at the start and then airs out with a mellow smoothness. Feel is light to medium bodied, a bit zesty and grainy. not bad, drinkable, ya sure, but where's the raspberry?

Serving type: bottle

05-18-2003 19:48:34 | More by tavernjef

jlervine

Georgia

3.25/5  rDev +0.9%
look: 2.5 | smell: 3 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3

Orange in color on the pour, with little-to-no head - what does show up is gone quickly. I expected better. The smell is alright - yeasty with a hint of raspberries. The taste is crisp and malty, fading to a light hint of raspberry flavor. The mouthfeel is all over the place, finishing up with a tingle of raspberry at the back of my mouth. Drinkable, but I'm slightly disappointed.

Serving type: bottle

04-30-2003 17:50:51 | More by jlervine

bditty187

Nebraska

3/5  rDev -6.8%
look: 3 | smell: 3 | taste: 3 | feel: 3 | overall: 3

Lightly cloudy, golden-amber hue, small white head, fair retention, no lace. Weak nose, where is the raspberry? The bouquet is weakly wheat, ghost hint of yeast, awfully damn clean. The palate has the lightest kiss of raspberry (maybe I am being suggestible), this is basically an American Wheat beer, light toasted wheat, malt… not much other development, clean. It is crisp and refreshing, lawnmower material. Medium-light body with ideal carbonation and a dry finish, minimal aftertaste. Very simplistic and boring, a yawner… like I said, refreshing, good on a hot-ass summer day, just don’t go out of your way to try one.

Thanks to Morris729 for the bottle!

Serving type: bottle

04-27-2003 10:10:28 | More by bditty187

IrishRedRock

Pennsylvania

3.5/5  rDev +8.7%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 4

Purple haze all in my brain
Lately things don't seem the same

Indeed they don't, as this isn't the best fruit beer I've had by a long shot. Pours a cloudy golden color with a pinkish hue. Aroma is of tart raspberries and yeast. Raspberry flavor is pretty mild which is good-it doesn't overpower the other flavors. However, there arent many other flavors. Wheat flavor is present, but the aftertaste has a nasty malty macro thing going on that isn't too great. This beer is refreshing, but for a fruit or wheat beer, there's much better out there.

Serving type: bottle

04-20-2003 18:50:41 | More by IrishRedRock

stoutman

Michigan

2.25/5  rDev -30.1%
look: 3 | smell: 2.5 | taste: 2 | feel: 3 | overall: 2

Very little raspberry taste, more wheat tasting than anything. I dont really care for fruit beers - fer fruits only I guess. Golden-yellow hue. Sticky small white head. Nose of light rapberry, sweetness in the backdrop, dry palate, acidic finish. This is nothing I will seek out.

Serving type: bottle

04-08-2003 17:56:36 | More by stoutman

francisweizen

Australia

3.78/5  rDev +17.4%
look: 2.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 4

A very nice fruit beer from Abita! This beer pours a very pale yellow colour into my glass. The head lasts for quite a while and the aromas are very nice. The aromas are of raspberries and wheat. The taste is more of the same. Very wheat-beer like and very berry-ish. This tastes like a raspberry soda and it is very refreshing. Just the drink for your g/f or for you on those hot summer days spent doing yard work. The mouthfeel is a bit thin on this beer, but it is O.K. and the drinkability is good too.
Cheers!,
F.

Serving type: bottle

04-01-2003 12:14:32 | More by francisweizen

BitteBier

Indiana

2.93/5  rDev -9%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3 | taste: 3 | feel: 2 | overall: 3

Hazy pale straw color with tinges of lemon yellow at the fringes and an interesting suspension of sediment. A substantial head upon pouring, though it dissipates quickly. Nose is underwhelming with just a mostly clean grain smell and the slightest hint of fruit. Very watery mouthfeel with a taste that is grainy and weak, much like the nose. Sweet at the start, turning crisp, and then getting very smooth. Not unpleasant, but neither strong nor memorable. This one is certainly drinkable, but only because it is very smooth. Not a great beer but an OK beverage.

Serving type: bottle

03-24-2003 18:40:31 | More by BitteBier

GreenCard

Oregon

2.23/5  rDev -30.7%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 2 | feel: 1.5 | overall: 1.5

Drove through Louisiana recently, so I stopped at this brewery. I have to say, I was a bit disappointed...

Aroma: a delicate raspberry aroma (like raspberry blossoms), also a bit of framboise aroma though this isn't a lambic, not much else can be detected

Flavor: pretty bland, not much flavor from the base beer (no esters, no hops, no malt), a slight raspberry essence, very slight tartness, tastes like unsweetened raspberry soda

Appearance: has the reddish pink peach melba color, NO head, and is semi-cloudy

Mouthfeel: also like raspberry soda-water, very thin bodied, tight carbonation

Serving type: on-tap

03-10-2003 12:13:47 | More by GreenCard

ElGuapo

New Jersey

3.38/5  rDev +5%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 4

This beer pours to a very unusual golden color that I wouldn't say was cloudy, but seems to have a matte kind of look. The aroma is also very strange. The smell of raspberries is there, but there is also a very strong aroma of V-8 juice. As you drink it and swirl it around, the raspberries come out more, and the tomatoes die down. Once that happens, the smell is simply mouthwatering.

The body is fairly light and it has a very crisp mouthfeel that would make it an exceptional summer brew. The fact that it is 3 degrees outside and we are due for 12 -20 inches of snow is not hurting it though. Lots of raspberries hit the tongue, and you are then presented with a nice wheat flavor that really balances it out. This is a pretty good fruity brew that could give you a little variety from time to time.

Serving type: bottle

02-16-2003 16:56:00 | More by ElGuapo

HopheadEd

Pennsylvania

3/5  rDev -6.8%
look: 3 | smell: 3 | taste: 3 | feel: 3 | overall: 3

Pours yellow, slightly cloudy, no aroma to speak of. Thin head that does not last, no lace. Thin berry taste, more malt than fruit. Very little hop finish, tinny aftertaste. Not very good, one was enough.

Serving type: on-tap

01-01-2003 17:48:30 | More by HopheadEd

beerguy101

California

2.68/5  rDev -16.8%
look: 3 | smell: 3 | taste: 2.5 | feel: 3 | overall: 2.5

Medium gold color, slightly pinkish and slightly cloudy. Small to no head. Aroma is raspberry at the start but fades to a little maltyness. A fairly typical and very average fruit wheat beer. Berry flavor is mild and pretty subdued, it is also a little too sweet, so it just as well the flavor is mild. Pretty average. Mouthfeel is neutral. Finish is clean. Aftertaste is slightly bitter.

Serving type: bottle

12-30-2002 20:16:10 | More by beerguy101

JISurfer

South Carolina

4.03/5  rDev +25.2%
look: 3.5 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 4.5

Not a bad little bayou beer. Had a frothy head to it and orange/yellowish color to it. I like Dixie beer, so I thought I would give it a shot. Wasn't disappointed. I was happy with my six of it and couldn't keep my buds from stealing it! Now I have to go get another six! This time I'm gonna hide it. Anyways, it went down smooth and had a semi-dry finish to it. You can definately smell the raspberry in it, but the fruity taste is a little more faint. Give it a shot, you won't be disappointed ya'll!

Serving type: bottle

12-18-2002 23:26:31 | More by JISurfer

budgood1

Minnesota

2.65/5  rDev -17.7%
look: 2.5 | smell: 3 | taste: 2.5 | feel: 3 | overall: 2.5

it ain't purple, but it sure is hazy...a hazy orangeish color with no head and lace. slight grain and big raspberry aroma. crisp grainy tastes, followed by tart raspberries, sort of artificial. finishes crisp and grainy. i can see where this would be mighty refreshing in the middle of a brutally muggy and hot louisiana summer, but for a beer to enjoy and savor, it's bad. too much like a malternative.

Serving type: bottle

12-13-2002 14:58:15 | More by budgood1

Kwak

New Jersey

3.58/5  rDev +11.2%
look: 3 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5

Nice amber color small head nice fruity aroma.

Good clean body not to much on body good steady carbonation.

Sweet raspberry taste not to fruity nice wheat beer. No purple haze
but good nonetheless.

I like the good mix of raspberry and wheat !

Serving type: on-tap

12-03-2002 22:16:11 | More by Kwak

Morris729

Texas

3.5/5  rDev +8.7%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 4

Pours a hazy golden orange color with a thin white head that quickly dissipates. Aroma is sweet malts with notes of raspberry. Taste is light and crisp with tart raspberry flavors and a dry finish. A nice fruit beer.

Serving type: bottle

11-28-2002 08:42:32 | More by Morris729