21st Amendment Hell or High Watermelon Wheat

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

Hazy gold with a bright white head. Aroma is a bit sour with strawberry notes, and a small hit of sulfur. Surprisingly, taste is very identifiable as watermelon, and there is a nice biscuit flavor into the finish that is somewhat cheapened by a tomato aftertaste. $3/12oz can

Light amber. Thick head in a plastic cup. Kind of an oaty Belgian scent. Watermelon starts faint and builds through the finish. Weird and wacky. I would not have thought that watermelon would be strong enough for a fruit beer. Still might be hard to place the flavour in a blind test. Lacks much in the way of wheat beer character. Not cloudy or wheat flavoured.

12 oz can. Cloudy yellow brown with a quick settling white head. Nose is dough and faint watermelon. Sharp carb, kind of creamy. Taste is banana, wheat, watermelon, pear and lemon pith. Slightly bitter, chalky finish.

Can: Vague baby food and clove aroma. Yellow with very fine floaties., no head. Flavor is wheat and watermelon rind, not the good part. Unique, but sickening. I’ve often thought that watermelon would be a good flavor for an alcoholic beverage, but the reality is it doesn’t work. The sugars break down too easily. Leave a cut watermelon out for 24 hours and you’ll see what I mean. A for effort but this was gross.

Can. Pours a golden body with a thin white head. Sweet end of the watermelon white pink part subtle and simple. A bit spritz y like seltzer. Eh.

I had this on draft at 21st Amendment. You really need to let this beer sit for a while before you get any of watermelon taste. Otherwise, it’s a fairly, clean,s imple beer.

I had this beer at the brewery once and in cans twice. At the brewery it was phenomenal! it was so fresh and the real watermelon flavor really stood out. Perfect. But.... since then I have had it in cans. In the can it is terrible! Stale funky and barely any watermelon flavor. So I won’t buy this again unless I am at the brewery.

12oz can, from Capone’s (Norristown, PA). Pours a pale straw color, topped with a small white head. Aroma of wheat, straw, and hints of watermelon. Flavor begins with grain and wheat, and exhibits nice, natural watermelon flavor. Finish reminiscent of watermelon Jolly Rancher candy. Refreshing.