Arcadia Whitsun

Brewed by Arcadia Brewing Company
Style: Wheat Ale
Battle Creek, Michigan USA

Pours hazy golden with an overcarbonated wispy beige head. Pour this carefully or you may end up with yeast chunks in your beer. Aroma of citrus, spicy yeast, chamomile, and wheat. Taste is orange peel, chamomile, and spicy yeast. Mouthfeel is medium bodied with moderate carbonation. This is more like a witbier than the typical, soul-less American Wheat. Enjoyable, but the bottle seemed a bit old and the recipe is a bit overspiced.

Pours a clear golden color with a ring of white lace. Aroma and flavor of wheat and hay. The palate is light and creamy with soft carbonation. Not badly done but I’m not too fond of American Wheats.

Pour is a cloudy orange with tons of floaties and a huge white head. Aroma is decent. Some hops show up along with a a nice dose of citrus fruits. Flavor is also ok. A nice fruityness is present along with some fresh hops and a nice tart finish. Don’t know about a wheat beer, this is almost a fruit beer with peach being the strongest taste. Still quite tasty and refreshing.

Nice thick head that lasts fairly long. Pours a brown-orange color that isn’t very appealing. Sweet apple and coriander aroma is offset by strong alcohol notes. The palate is very one dimensional, like a sam adams. Tastes like an ok whit but nothing is pronounced and the flavor is merely average. I wouldn’t bother with this one again.

In the bottle at the Max & Joe’s Tavern Michigan Beer tasting (11/21/6). Pours hazy golden as a light tea color. Thin white head that dies quickly. Faint coriander aroma. Tastes citrusy like lime and peach. Has a quick finish. Bitterness is more like a citrus peel bitter rather than a typical hop bitterness. Quite orangey.

From a 12 oz. long neck bottle with a freshness date along the right side of label. Poured a hazy, cloudy reddish orangey golden with a foamy white head that settled into a thin lacing. Aromas of citrus and honey, a touch of toasted grain and a bit herbal. For a Arcadia brew, moderate carbonation and a wheaty crisp, smooth medium bodied mouthfeel. Tastes of oranges, melons and honey grain, soft clove spiciness, a peach-like fruitiness, and a dryish, sweet wheat malty finish. Another decent beer from Arcadia, very quaffable.

Good sized bright white head of medium and large sized bubbles. Light aroma with peaches, light hops and malts. Color is a medium orange. Light fruity flavor with some more malts and some straw and grass. Minimal wheat presence. Flavor is a little weak. Finish is slightly dry and tart. A decent brew.

Large fizzy head. Very fizzy body that is also hazed copper with little bits of what look like ground up seeds. Aroma is almost sour malty belgian like a malty saison. But that fades and I start to get more old water and twigs. Flavor is more like initial aroma impressions. A little sour citrus and sweet malted wheat. Not to bad in a belgian light.