21st Amendment Hell or High Watermelon Wheat

Brewed by 21st Amendment Brewery
Style: Fruit Beer
San Francisco, California USA

Yellow color. Has hardly any scent of watermelon. Smells more of stale malts and yeast. Taste has mostly malts with very little watermelon. If you don’t drink it in the first 5 mins, the watermelon flavor goes completely away. Not a great experience overall. A first and last.

SpringsLicker’s Fish Fry. Sample from a can thanks to Suttree. Hazy pinkish yellow with a thin white fuzz. Ugly watermelon jolly rancer aroma. Taste is simple watermelon juice, not very sweet though.

12oz can at home: Clouded gold with a fading and somewhat creamy white head. Sweet and fruity aroma of summer fruits. Seems more like light strawberries, but when you think about watermelon it does come out. Sugary malt foundation. Typical wheat notes only comes up when you swirl the glass. Citrus also gets played up. The watermelon is released on the tongue along with full blown grainy wheat. Fresh watermelon with a touch of watermelon Jolly Rancher coming from underneath. Touches of sweetener under some of the crisp and tangy wheat. A bit of grain is driven into the back of the throat by the CO2. The watermelon turns more "artificial" as you work your way down, but still works. Light metallic notes on the end. A refreshing twist and kept simple. Take it for what it is, not a complex quaffer but a simple summer wheat.

Tasted this at the Springs Lick tasting fish fry from a can. Taste of artificial watermelon flavor. More like a soda than a beer and not even a good soda. I doubt I will be trying this again.

Sampled at SpringSlicker’s fishfry. Hazy yellow pour with floating watermelon seeds. Sweet fake bready watermelon aroma. More like carbonated watermelon juice than beer. But the can and name is pretty sweet.

Sample at the KLCC microbrew festival. Pours out a sick yellow color with a thin and quickly dissipating white head. Hefty wheat aroma with a dash of watermelon. Flavor is more heavily watermelon with wheat mixed in. Initial sip was nasty but after chugging the rest of it...still gross, but kind of tasted like a watermelon jolly rancher. Not something I ever need to drink again.

Hazy light yellow with a fleeting white head. Sour lemon Aroma. The flavor is basically watermelon flavor without the sweetness. Thin, light body.

Can at the ’09 Fish Fry. Pours gold with small white head. The aroma is quite awful: buttermilk, stanky yogurt, hay, cardboard, and a hint of artificial watermelon candy. The flavor is rotting wheat (like wheat that’s been left in the field too long), cardboard, some random unpleasantness, and artificial watermelon. This is no good.