I am getting mostly just vanilla bean on the nose, nothing cloying or artificial about it, pleasant aroma. This pours with a cloudy dark yellow color, a nice off white head to start that does fade to just a slight ring after quite a while.

Are we talking about coffee cold brew AND vanilla being used? Or is this some kind of cold brew made FROM vanilla? Neither the website, nor the information sent with the beer shed a whole lot of light on the subject either. This is described as a Vanilla Cold Brew Ale, which is kind of confusing. Certainly worth trying.Harpoon UFO Winter Blonde is an American Blonde Ale, 4.9% ABV, enjoy by date of 5/15/17. It's almost impeccable as it is, and interesting, refreshing, and massively drinkable if you like fruit beers. It finishes fruity and slightly tart with some residual malt and fruit lingering but steadily eroding from the palate. This one is a little sweeter (ahh, maybe not, just by a touch) but there is a light bit of tartness to it that helps to balance it, and the wheat in the malt comes through clearly. of beer followed by a splash of extract to liven the aroma which was a little more authentic. (via Cizauskas) and I'd use 126 pounds of raspberry puree in 15 bbls. I used to make a similar beer while I was at Manayunk Brewing Co. It's got a clear raspberry flavor to it, and although it's extract-like to a certain extent it's not that bad. I then got the recipe from Thomas Cizauskas who'd previously worked for Oxford, albeit it in a slightly amped-up version. In fact, it's a perfect example! My earliest memory of those goes back to Oxford Brewing in Linthicum, MD with their Oxford Raspberry Wheat Ale around 1993, a beer designed by the now famous Steve Parkes for his wedding reception, but then taken up and promoted by new ownership. it's very much like the raspberry wheat ales that were so popular in the mid 90's. Notes via stream of consciousness: This should be an easy review as I've had this beer several times before, and in fact, I could swear I'd already reviewed it here, but oh well, here goes. It's light, almost soda like, and if you can enjoy it's bold fruit flavor you could drink them all day. If you worship raspberries, you've found your hefeweizen. If you only like raspberries, be cautious. If you don't like raspberries, stay away. This was my favorite part of this drink: the fading raspberry being overtaken by the wheat and yeast before it all melts away. After you let it sit for a moment you can sort past the raspberry and find the hefeweizen hiding in it. The taste, thankfully, is more tame, but still quite strong with raspberry. I might call it overwhelming or oppressive, but I'm not the most fond of raspberries so that might be unfair. There's no subtlety here, it just hits you in the face with raspberry. The beer itself looks fine if unimposing, something like a late summers sunset. The bottle looks like shit it wasn't the same labeling as shown here. My buddy loves fruity shit, that's the only reason I tried this.

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