Clipper City Oxford Organic Raspberry Wheat
In Belgium, one of the world’s greatest brewing regions, the tradition of blending fruit with beer has achieved cult status. We decided to create an American interpretation that we present as Oxford Raspberry. The beer is light and refreshing and finished with real raspberries giving it a fruity aroma, and quenching tartness.
2.8
165 reviews
Baltimore, United States
Community reviews
12oz bottle. Provided by mwelsh13. Amber brew with light haze and a small head. Musty brine like aroma that seems misplaced. The flavor is also fraught with this same brine like distraction. Any berry that might have been in this has been overpowered by what is most definitely a brine like finish. I prefer salt on my food…Not in my beer. Especially what is supposed to be a fruit beer. Infection?
Bottle. Pours amber with a small off-white head. Aroma of sweet raspberry and wheat. Flavor is tart raspberry, wheat and a touch of honey. Light bodied with soft carbonation and a crisp and sweet finish.
12 oz bottle poured slightly hazy and light brown with a small white head. big aroma of raspberries that was artificial. very sour taste. artificial raspberry flavor with very little body. slightly syrupy as well. funky aftertaste. not sure about this one. they used to be decent before going organic.
very nice appearance and nose, but very mild flavor with no discernible malt but a sourish raspberry flavor. not good
Uh yeah.. not sure why I bought this one. I didnt know what it was, and since I am running out of beer to buy locally that I havent had (except for all of the English beers), I figured what the hell. It was only a dollar. When I went to open it, I noticed the ’clipper city’ on the cap and thought to myself: "oh shit". Those guys brew alot of beers, and not many of them are good with the exception of hop3 (that shit is great!), but this beer falls into the not so good category. Bland, not sour, raspberry flavors which are fake tasting. Not a really good beer, not much to say about it either.
on tap-pours a thin white head and gold color. Aroma is mild raspberry, honey. Taste is raspberry, honey, wheat, secondary continental hops (perle).
(Bottle (labelled as "Oxford Organic Raspberry Wheat", best before 9/08, from 1828 Vintage House) Pours lightly reddish light amber, cloudier on last pour. Tall, meringue-like white head. Strong initial aroma of fresh berries but as head recedes it turns sourish and wheaty. Mouthfeel a little thin, light soda effervescence, light and fairly smooth. Dabs and patches of weepy broken lacing. Flavor is lightly wheaty with a sourish tang, notes of raspberry but kind of lost behind the sourish wheat. Not really one of the better-tasting fruit or wheat beers I’ve had.
bottle. raspberry is well done. its definitly dominant but not too acidic or artificial tasting. the gritty wheat flavor provides a nice background. the berries might wear on me after a while but the tastes i had were very tasty. underrated - definitely deserves to be in the 3’s.
Bottle. Pours a hazy amber hue with an average frothy white head that mostly lasted with fair lacing. Good wheat and rasberry aroma. Medium body with soft carbonation. Medium well balanced fruity flavor with a good sweet finish of moderate duration. Good soft drinkable beer.
aroma is wheaty, hints of raspberry. poured redish color with white head. flavor is refreshing spritzy with some raspberry and wheat. easy drinking, summer time fruit beer. nothing complex, but it is what it is type of beer. goes over well with the women I’m sure while still not being a malternative.
Pours an amber color with a slight pink tint to it and a white head. Aroma is light with caramel malts, wheat, and raspberry. Flavor is also light with caramel, wheat, and raspberry. No lingering flavor. Not good.
Yellow pour with an over the top head. I taste the wheat beer but the raspberry is seriously lacking. This is not a bad brew just lackluster
Short small head, off white. Smells of sugar and raspberry. Very over the top with the fruit and sweetness. Simple.
12 oz. Foggy, orange-copper with a small, but lasting head. Aroma is tart raspberry. Flavor is the same, with a touch of dry wheat. The light body is smooth, but acidic-tingly, and crisp on the finish. Pretty much what you would expect from a well-done raspberry wheat.
Bottle. Pour is a slighly reddish amber color with a two finger or so head that is kind of soapy looking. Aromas are grainy with a touch of raspberry. Flavor is watery but has a nice little crips tartness from the raspberry presence. Not going to win any awards from me, but not bad...
Bottled as Oxford Organic Raspberry Wheat Beer. Sweet, syrupy, cloying raspberry aroma. Pours pink-tinged orange with a beige head. Taste a little flat, dry wheaten notes overpowering the sweet raspberry, which serves as a nice accent. Malt base is a bit weak and thin, as is the body and feel. Comparison with seltzer or mineral water is apt; taste isn’t too far behind, reminds of the flavored bottled water that is en vogue these days. Very mild and timid. Slightly disappointing as this brewer has certainly brought the noise, the funk, and the robust flavor in other brews.
Sampled as Oxford Organic Raspberry Wheat Beer, brand new in May 08. Amber with red hues on the pour, normal head and lacing. Strong raspberry aromas over top of a light wheat base. The flavor was predictable from the aroma, sweet raspberries, syrupy, light than the amber, yet still too sweet to be thirst quenching. I think I could enjoy a raspberry wheat beer in the summer if only the raspberry was a faint background accent. Too bad brewers don’t ever try to pull that off vs. making seltzer sugar water.
Draft at Tap and Mallet in Rochester. Pours red with a thin white head. Sweet aroma, a bit tart, and all raspberry. Light, crisp body. Flavor is sweet raspberry juice and not much else. Although there is a good balance of sweet/sourness. It’s at least refreshing.
12oz bottle, courtesy of HighGravity. Dark amber, creamy off white head. Aroma held light notes of raspberry seltzer and touches of citrus and wheat. Balanced raspberry and soft wheat flavors run from start to finish. Light bodied and thin, soft carbonation, fruity finish. Disappointed in this local showing...
12oz bottle, courtesy of HighGravity. Thanks, John! Pours a murky, peachy-orange color; off-white head with patchy lacing. Kind of a medicinal, fake-fruit aroma; some wheat husks and chemicals. Relaxed carbonation. Medium mouthfeel: fake red fruit juice, wheat, and a touch of sugar water; not very good stuff. Light finish: touch of wheat, and still medicinal; slightly dry.
Bottle. Pours a copper color with a tight head that leaves good lacing. Aroma is full of raspberries, wheat, and bread dough. Taste is very much like the smell somewhat doughy but filled with raspberries. Its light clean and refreshing... good for a nice hot day at the park or even a cookout.
Bottle: Light amber color with an almost reddish tinge. The head stands on it’s on right, clinging doggedly to the sides of my glass. The aroma is full and well presented, full of fresh berries. But that promise doesn’t live up to itself in the quaff. The berries are barely perceivable -- instead this comes across as a musty brew. (#3345, 3/16/2008)
Bottle at the brewery tour. There are a lot of raspberries in this one, and the beer is very smooth and easy to drink. There is also a hint of wheat in the taste and aroma. There isn’t much else to it though, and I was hoping for a bit more.
From bottle : Pours a hazy orange color, with a half finger of white fizzy head, that last a minute or so. Fairly high amount of carbonation. Nose is very sweet raspberrys with a hint of wheat. Taste is very carbonated, some sweetness, and ends very blandly with a tiny raspberry flavor. Medium body with a sticky feel, not all that impressive at all.
Did not particularly enjoy this one.Nice aroma of raspberries. flavor was tart and sour with no sweetness to balance it out. Big fan of CLipper City’s Heavy Seas collection, but could have done without this offering
12oz bottle poured in a tulip glass. CCORW pours orange colored with a very minimal head. It smells like raspberry bushes, including the green parts. There are some little "somethings" floating in my beer that I’m not certain are supposed to be there. Being the man I am though, I shall press on. The body is thin and carbonated just right for a fruit beer. The raspberry doesn’t come out as heavily in the taste as it does in the aroma. This is a good thing actually. This beer has the tarteness I would expect from raspberryies without the candy-like flavors that a lot of fruit beers have. And yet, somehow, they miss the target by a little in some undefinable way that lowers the overall score.
Bottle. Hazy dark gold body with a few floaters. A decent lasting off white head. The aroma is the typical fake raspberry candy that I expected. There is some bubblegum with that. The taste is tart raspberry with some light bread crust and green bananas. At first I liked this, but as I drank a little more, the after taste bothered me. It is kind of like bug spray, not pleasant. Then it kind of mellowed, but that chemical finish ruins an otherwise decent fruit wheat beer.
had it in both bottle and on tap.. Much better from the tap. Not bad in the bottle, just different. Tastes nice if you haven’t had any other beer yet that night. Otherwise it doesn’t pair well. The raspberry finsih in the bottle seemed ’dead’. It just lacked the brightness of the fresh from the tap
I liked the palate on this beer. It was fairly full bodied, though it is very filling. The raspberry is nice and potent enough, but not overbearing. For a style I’m not fond of I enjoyed this one. Get this one on tap if you can.
12 oz bottle. Aroma is reallly fruity. I enjoyed the raspberry and wheat flavor. Would def try this one again.