Arcadia Whitsun

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

Serve in Shaker, Weizen

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Bottle. A hazy golden color. Kind of chewy for a wheat beer with some malty and butterscotch flavors.

This is generally a very likable summer brew. The wheat flavor is perceptible but does not predominate. Definite citrus overtones. In the past, I have bought this beer and thought it tasted slightly of grape koolaid (sounds strange, but I don’t know how else to describe it.) Not quite the beer to drink in the middle of a hot day. But perfect for a warm summer night just after sunset.

Remember the old ’your chocolate is in my peanut butter’ commercials? Well, this beer is what happens if a guy with a good, rather malty EPA crashes into a guy with a flavorful Belgian wit. It has both an unexpected depth of fruity (even butterscotchy, olympian) malt for those expecting a light wheaty thing, AND the more predictable billow of witty spices - all bordered with hop action. I’m not sure that it comes off that well - the two styles clash a bit - but it’s a hell of an experiment. I was the one who originally called this thing an American Wheat - anyone with a better idea is certainly free to suggest otherwise!

dark golden body, good head. nicely sweet, very little typical ’wheat’ flavor and the honey barely peeks thru, or maybe the hops keep it in check.

Very strange. Nothing like Oberon. Not a bad wheat flavor though. A little to sweet for me i do taste the butterscotch and also honey.

A pretty good seasonal wheat, alcohol is well hidden, slight citrus flavor, not quite as good as oberon, but this and oberon got my wife graduated from domestics, so there’s some points for that as well.

As a seasonal beer, this varies year to year. I generally enjoy this beer, it has a nice wheat flavor. Other reviewers have commented on a butterscotch flavor, but they seemed to have toned that downa bit this year (or maybe just this batch). I thought it was a much smoother summer beer than Oberon this year, and much more to my liking all said and done.

Good, but if you like a drier German Wheat, this is absolutely not for you. A little bit of caramel, as in the commercial description: Check. Orange Blossom Honey, as in the commercial description: Check (Indeed this is a rare occurrence, when I can sense something right on, but I was primed by the Honey Brown Lager earlier tonight, I guess). Overall, As Hennes and others have said, some good hop presence, but just a tad too sweet for my tastes. Points for going off style, anyone?

Mondo Bizzaro! I had no idea what to expect trying this, but it tastes exactly like melted butterscotch candies. Can’t really rate it as a brew, as it is so wierdly different from anything I’ve ever tasted. The sweetness belies the fact it’s 6.1% alcohol - beware. Someone below compares it to Bell’s Oberon. Each to their own taste, but that’s like comparing Mercury and Pluto.

light haze, medium golden: pantone 1385. my head is weak. wait, that doesn’t sound right: whitsun’s head is weak, my own is highly variable. at my level of gastronomic sophistication, i can’t tell what it is about the flavor or aroma that signifies wheat. it tastes nothing like the german wheats i’ve had. i was practically vacuuming the suds trying to detect the ’orange blossom honey, but it’s too subtle for me. i get an airy fresh grass smell or white bread, a little fruit, okay, orange if you insist. but tasty and light. a perfect beer to attempt to gently ween your dad off that crappy budweiser.