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Overall similarity
hopIQ take
Mikkeller Raspberry Blush if you want bright, modern fruit candy sweetness,
New Glarus Wisconsin Belgian Red if you want tart cherry complexity that actually tastes like beer.
Both sit at nearly identical IBU levels, but Mikkeller leans dessert while New Glarus respects the baseline—neither will knock you over, and that's the point. The ABV difference is real enough that you'll notice it in session drinking.
At a glance
Generated from the four anchored axes — never hand-written.
Beer DNA
Body
Δ 4
Sweetness
Δ 10
Situations
In words
Mikkeller Raspberry Blush
Mikkeller Raspberry Blush hits like someone liquified a fancy pastry shop. There's genuine raspberry character upfront—not artificial, but unapologetically sweet and candied. The 6.5% ABV sits behind the fruit rather than under it, so you're tasting confection first, yeast warmth second. It's a dessert beer masquerading as something you'd pair with food, and it owns that without apology.
New Glarus Wisconsin Belgian Red
New Glarus Wisconsin Belgian Red is a different animal entirely. The cherry is earthy and slightly medicinal, like drinking from a wooden spoon someone used to stir preserves. You taste the Belgian yeast character—that peppery, slightly funky baseline—underneath the fruit rather than buried by it. It's more austere, more intentional, more likely to leave you wanting another sip instead of feeling done after one.
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Similarly hopped
Within Δ 0. Neither reads as noticeably more bitter on this axis.
Bitterness 13 vs 13 · Δ 0
Bitterness
Δ 0
Texture
Δ 3
Only Mikkeller Raspberry Blush
Shared character
Only New Glarus Wisconsin Belgian Red