Funkwerks Raspberry Provincial

This delicious creation was truly a product of creativity, ingenuity and luck. In the summer of 2013 we took a test batch of our sessional sour summer ale, Provincial, that didn’t quite hit gravity, and decided to have some fun with it! We added a heavy dose of raspberries. The end result was so delicious, we decided to recreate it! This delightfully tart fruit beer is refreshing, with a citrusy raspberry aroma which transitions to a subtlety sweet and tart finish.

Notes of lemon zest and tart raspberries.

3.6

171 reviews

Fort Collins, United States

Community reviews

3.6 Draft. Pours pink with a lighter pink head. Jammy raspberry, a little bit of acidity, and a quick and balanced finish. Pretty good.

3.6 Bright reddish pink with white head. Tart lemon and berry aroma and flavor is straight forward but pleasant throughout. Light acidity. Session-able.

4.2 11.2oz bottle from Whole Foods in Cupertino. Lucky single bottle find for $2.50. Pink amber color. Nice medium raspberry aroma. Nice light sourness. Fine bubble white foam. Not dry or sweet, but medium body. Easy to drink. Excellent.

4.6 Big fresh raspberry nose. Some clean raspberry and slight spice in the taste. A nice sour. edit getting cans of these during boating season after quarantine way ups the rating. Yum

4.0 Probably drank my weight in this by now at 2018 Centennial Fest, Soulard Soiree at McGurks, and Great American Beer Fest. Mostly-clear pink colour with white foam, lasting with lace. Sweet and fruity, but not too much so, not like the Kool Aid or wine cooler it kinda looks like. Has characteristics in common with a fruited Berliner Weiss and a rustic saison. Earthy, herbal, a hint spicy, tart, tannic. Light body, strong carbonation, pleasant aftertaste with eventual semi-dry finish. Delicious and insanely easy-drinking.

2.3 I was disappointed with this. a light sourness but the flavor almost seemed more like strawberries than raspberries. eh.

3.4 Tart, sour aroma of raspberries. Salty, tart, fresh raspberry taste. Good carbonation. Nice thirst quencher.

3.9 Draft at Up-Down KC. Pours a hazy deep pink with a finger of pink-tinted white head that settles into a ring and film eventually. Really nice raspberries, more tart than sweet, with doughy malts, lactic funk, vanilla, lemon, and some zesty florals. Light-medium bodied, with moderate to medium soft carbonation and a tart, fruity, funky, bready mouthfeel. Really good.

3.1 Pour from bittle had little to no head. Hazy pink in color. Sweet citrus zip. Light and watery. Rasberry dominates. Finish lingers a bit sour. Nice sweet and sour balance.

2.5 Bottle from K&L in Redwood City, CA. Aroma is lite raspberry syrup, koolaid, hay, mild vitamins. Taste is thin raspberry with extremely mild beer taste, tart almost like Citric Acid. Similar to a watered-down EmergenC.

3.7 Sweet berry aroma in a strawberry pour. Laid back light tart taste makes for an excellent thirst quencher (and relatively low strength allows one to enjoy a few).

4.0 This is a pleasant sour. Not sour, but more tart. Natural raspberry taste. Very enjoyable.

3.6 Hazy red color with pink foam. Nice raspberry, bretty earthy dry aroma. Light bodied. Lightly tart fresh raspberries, dusty, cobwebs, dry hay flavors ___tasty

3.5 Smells like yeast, rasberries and a little mint leaf. Berry purple color and hazy. Taste is mildy sour, rasberry, mint, and yeast. Not a sour person so I like that the sourness is pretty light.

3.4 Bottle. It poured a pinkish color with an off-white head. The aroma was of raspberries, yeast and grains. The taste was similar to the aroma with more raspberries, yeast, grains and medium carbonation with a nice sweet aftertaste. Tasty.

3.8 Tap at union station. Pours hazy pink some head and lacing. Notes of tart berries, yeast maybe yogurt. Medium tart light sweet. Light body lively carbonation.

3.5 Bottle from Whole Foods. Clearish red-golden with a quickly dissipating white head. Smells like raspberries. Slightly tart raspberry taste with a touch of grain. Light bodied, smooth and dry.

3.8 On tap at Sir Ben’s. Pours grapefruit flesh pink with a little white head. Scent is fruity, raspberry, almost smells like a raspberry wine cooler. Taste is raspberry with lightly sour finish. Very little aftertaste. Just a bit of fruitiness. Very light body. One of the better sours I’ve had.

3.5 On tap at Shamrocks. Pours a hazy pink color with a small head. Aroma of raspberries, citrus, trace of vanilla and grass. Taste of slight tart raspberries, bit of citrus and grass. Slightly tart with a fairly clean finish. Moderate body, nicely crafted making it flavorful without being overly tart. Nice.

4.2 Pours a clear rose pink with a cotton candy pink massive head. Raspberry tartlett aroma. Moderately tart raspberry tartlett flavor. Notes: 750 ml bottle from Eamon, May ‘18

3.7 Bottle. Raspberry, light biscuit malt, and hay aroma. Ruby red with small head. Mildly sweet raspberry, biscuit malt, lightly sour citric acid, and mildly bitter hay flavor. Good body. Pleasant.

3.0 11.2floz bottle, BBD: 06.12.2018, $1.75 unit cost, tulip glass. This beer is opaque, fuchsia in color, and has a thin layer of head to complete the appearance. I find the aroma off putting, right there with the foulest 1%. It has a dank basement and dirty feet smell that I cannot even pretend to like. At least it is relatively mild. As I taste the beer, I can tell it is not a QC issue. Fresh raspberry provides a mild-moderate tartness that feels wet with light carbonation. A tad salty in the finish. A pretty good beer despite a bad aroma.

3.7 It pours hazy purple with a small head. The aroma has tart raspberries, lactic sourness and some vanilla. It has a crisp lighter body with semi sharp carbonation. The taste is pleasant with snappy raspberry, lemon and clean tartness without being over the top. Good.

3.4 Bottle. Pours a cloudy pink with a thin white head that fades. Taste is of tart and sour raspberries, wheat and some grass. Light raspberry aroma. Has a lighter body with a sour finish. Overall, pretty good.

3.8 Bottled on...No date. Unlike the other Funkwerks beers I've had. Pours red, very little foam and no lacing. Smells of tart raspberries first and foremost. I get some wheat and a smidgen of funk. Tasting an abundance of tart raspberries, wheat, funk, other fruity notes. Reminiscent of New Glarus Raspberry Tart but not quite up to that level. Light bodied with medium carbonation. Excellent and my favourite of the fruity beers from Funkwerks so far.

3.6 11.2 oz bottle. Holy carbonation. Cap shot off with a pop like a gun went off. Ricocheted around the kitchen like it was in a cartoon and we can’t locate it. Cloudy rose pink color with a huge pinkish white head. Aroma is a raspberry sorbet. Taste is sour raspberry, more tartness than sweetness. Dry for a fruited sour. Body is super carbonated. Almost champagne like.

3.3 Funky, musty aroma. Raspberry scent comes off as real, but not a good smelling beer. Looks great, cardinal red with a bone white head. Tastes tart up front with some funk and a clean raspberry aftertaste. Good carbonation, palate is dense for such a low alcohol beer. This was okay. I'm on the fence about funkwerks.

3.2 Highly carbonated. Reddish orange with an ultra fuzzy head. Light tartness with a decent raspberry notes. Lacking throughout.

3.4 Draught at St. Augustine's, Vancouver Hazy pink-red color. The raspberry is evident, the acidity is mild, it's a bit wheaty. Pleasant.

3.0 Pale pink with a bit of haze. Pretty basic raspberry nose. Tart, thin...there's some berry in here but the base beer offers little. Disappointing, as others in this series have been really good.