3.5 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 15/20
12 oz. bottle from Sudsy’s. Nice orange/light amber color with a foamy, off white head. Spicy and fruity nose, lemon and coriander. Medium fizzy, carbonic body with moderately lacing head. Sweet fruit, apple and pear with a mild sour/funk note. Very dry with just a touch of roasted malt. Spicy notes during dry after. This is interesting. I think it’s good, if this what it’s supposed to be, more like a farmhouse ale than a straight wheat beer. Nonetheless, I like the flavors dancing throughout. I really do hope this is what they were shooting for. Not bad.
3.3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
20070519 12oz bottle. Clouded golden color with lasting white head and visible eff. It’s a bit funky and weird, but in a good way. Phenolic and yeasty, biscuit dough.
3.4 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 13/20
A pleasant Belgian Wit that goes down well in the summer. Nice flavors of orange and a hint of spice balance well with the wheat backbone.
2.7 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 4/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
TAP. Appearance: Hazy light amber/dark gold with a very thin skim of white bubbles on the surface. Aroma: Yesty phenols and esters with some faint citrus. Flavor: mild spices & yeasty note dominant, faintly fruity with a citrus note but none of the malty flavors promised by the appearance. Palate: moderate mouthfeel with a crisp finish. Overall: underwhelming wheat that seems a little too phenolic/estery.
3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
12 oz. bottle. Pours a hazy dark golden color with a medium sized off white head. The aroma is light citrus with a bready malt backbone. The flavor is moderately sweet,citrus, earthy hops, a little honey, and wheat. Medium body, nothing too exciting here.
2.8 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
Bottle: Gold yellow in colour with white head. Aroma has honey sweet hints with a little malt. Flavour has mild wheat hints with sweet honey flavour hidden in the background. The body is smooth. The beer is decent and refreshing and maintains good flavour without being complex.
3.4 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 13/20
Bottle: Poured a golden yellow/amber with a nice head that disappeared quickly. The aroma was that sweet orange and honey. The flavor was well balance, sweet and light. A favorite of mine in the Wheat Ale category
3 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 10/20
Pours a foggy amber. Nose is slight woody caramel. Syrupy kind of character to it. Flavor is tangy in a wood kind of way. Hits my mouth and makes me go "eck". A bit more body than I would expect, but there it is. Slight bitter tone. Feel is thicker on the liquid with a decent carbonation. I have an announcement to make. I hate this style. I hate it, hate it, hate it. I don’t think there is one beer of this style that I tried that I liked. (Okay, that’s not true. Blue Star by North Coast and White Gold by Ithaca were good, but way different than the 11 others that I do not like at all) But hey, this beer is overall pretty decent I guess. I just wouldn’t mind never drinking another Pale Wheat Ale in my life; except Gumballhead.
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