Abita Purple Haze:
Bienvenue friends! Greetings from our friendly neighbors to the East and the land of air so thick with humidity you can see it. Today, we try one of those main staples in the Abita line, Purple Haze, a raspberry wheat beer that is actually a good beer for those nice hot Louisiana summer days. The beer is a basic wheat beer with raspberries added after filtration and then filtered again after a few days of flavor transfer. The beer was drunk out of a bottle so no clue on how it pours or how the head looks but the nose was a subtle berry smell and it’s a highly carbonated beer that tingles the tongue and mouth for the duration of the bottle’s life. The beer taste’s strongly of raspberries with a strong wheat aftertaste that seems to show up more on the back-end than anywhere else. It’s not highly uncommon to find bits of berry floating in the beer and it reportedly has a purple tint to the beer when poured in a glass. I can at least attest to the particulates in the beer since my the last few sips of beer were thick with debris of wrecked raspberries. A good summer beer, though this one beer seems to divide a lot of Abita drinkers since it is considered a beer for the fairer sex and thus has no place with other Abita beers. Of course most of these same opinionated beer drinkers drink up the Strawberry lager with no problem. Go figure.