Great Divide Brewing Company's Wild Raspberry Ale

On the one hand, I like very few fruit beers. On the other, Great Divide is one of my favorite breweries. Here goes.

Wow, throws off a huge sweet malt smell. Not really raspberry, but sweet and bready.

Pours a deep amber, like a red ale, not red like raspberry. Hopefully that means they were subtle about the raspberry.

Good for a fruit beer. It's as bitter as a pale, but not as sharp. It's dulled by the sweet raspberry taste, and then everything fades pretty quickly to a bitter hops and raspberry taste.

I wouldn't ever look for it again, but it's one of the better fruit beers out there. Not in your face like Fort (the one exception to the rule that too much is a bad thing), but enough to tell what it is without completely abandoning the taste and feel of a beer.