Founders Rübæus
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Loading ...Rübæus, from Founders Brewing Company, is everything you would hope to find in a raspberry beer.
If you’re looking for a sweet beer with just the right tang of tart raspberry, Rübæus is your perfect match. Founders knows how to make a good dessert beer.
If you’re only drinking one beer a day, and if you aren’t a fan of fruit beer — well, let’s just say I can forgive you for taking a pass on this one.
Either way, if you want to try this beer, you’d better grab a bottle quickly. Word is Founders will no longer brew Rübæus, due to the rising cost of raspberries.
Pretty beer
And they do use a lot of raspberries. Fresh berries are added at five separate stages, and the result is a ruby-colored beer. A tall flute would have displayed this beer perfectly. Alas, I was halfway through drinking Rübæus from a standard pint glass before I realized my Merchant du Vin Lindemans lambic glasses would have been more appropriate.
My wife enjoys lambics, and she won’t drink any other beer. But I was able to entice her to try this pretty beer.
“Happy pre-Valentine’s Day! Try a sip of this. It’s like a lambic.”
She looked at me dubiously. “It’s a lambic?”
“Like a lambic,” I repeated. “Doesn’t it look like one? Nice foamy head, ruby body…”
I was lucky she didn’t spit it back into the glass. Sweet, fruity, tart and tangy; yet still too much of a beer for my wife to enjoy.
For my part, I ate some heart-shaped chocolate candies while drinking the final half of the glass. They complemented the beer very nicely. I had intended to give the candies to my wife, but after she choked on that sip of Rübæus, she wouldn’t trust anything else I offered her.
Pardon the Soapbox
I’m no grammar saint. I groan over my own mistakes, trying to tidy up this blog in part of my own personal battle against grammar-entropy. Some improper forms — such as my frequent misuse and incorrect spacing of the em dash — I simply chalk up to my own idiosyncratic habits, leaving those beckoning corrections to some future, grousing copy editor.
But when errors are so egregious as to stop the eye, that’s when I break out my soapbox.
From the Founders website:
As promised Founders Brewing Company has created something unlike the rest. Amongst this summers [sic] over croweded [sic] race to cloudy wheat beers, we have decided to embark down a path all our own. Using only fresh rasberries [sic], rubaeus translates into intese [sic] flavors combined with a no hesitation malt bill. In fermentation we add fresh rasberries [sic] at five separate stages to achieve the ulttimate [sic] balance between tartness and sweetness.
I know I’m supposed to be writing about the beer. But quite apart from the awkward language choices above, there are enough grammar errors in the Rübæus description to make me [sic].
I can only conclude the person writing content for the Founders website had been enjoying a few pints of Rübæus for inspiration. And if that’s the case, I suppose I’ll forgive him or her.
Often enough, I’m guilty of the same.
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1 Comments
February 15th, 2009 at 1:33 pm
One of the odd things about their errors is the location. Sometimes you will see repetitive text errors related to a single finger on the mapping (I have no sensation in my left ring finger so I struggle to correctly use S and W and have to pull my hand away from the keyboard to find X). They seem to have trouble with the fingers that do the most traveling (index and middle) on both hands. They also commit two different kinds of errors, they leave letters out and put extra letters in. I think, yet again, you have hit the nail on the head. The person that typed that was drunk.