3.4 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
On tap at Barley’s Smokehouse. Gold/copper pour with a big frothy white head. Creamy and fruity aroma with wheat and hops. Wheat and yeast flavor with a bit of hops. Very refreshing and should make a decent summer beer.
3.5 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 15/20
Batch 7297 (March 16, 2006). The beer pours to a light golden body with lots of slow moving carbonation. Fluffy white head. Spotty lacing. The aroma is very bready. That’s about it, however. The flavor is bready, wheaty, yeasty with a nice refreshing spicy hop kick on the finish. Quite tasty. Easy drinking palate. Thirst quenching.
3.5 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 14/20
12 oz. bottle from John’s Grocery (Iowa City, IA). Pours a pretty cloudy bright orange with minimal head that quickly dissipates. Smells of malt and some light citrus notes. Taste is a very nice yeastiness that is followed by a small citrus bight. Finish is a small citrus bite and a wheaty smooth aftertaste. Well balanced wheat beer that is enjoyable and refreshing.
3.4 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 13/20
UPDATED: JAN 31, 2006 Pours cloudy yellow with thick white head. Aroma is banana, pine and citrus. Flavor is very fruity, bananas, oranges, grapefruit, and some apple. Finishes bitter and dry. Excelent summer beer.
3.8 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 15/20
Bottle from my girlfriend after visiting Michigan: Very cloudy honey colored pour with not clarity at all and a dense creamy white head. Crisp bright aroma. Wheaty, fruity, light grains, honey soaked lemon, peppery phenolics and lemon grass. Creamy and substantial feel- yet it’s refreshing. Creamy wheat malt flavors with a touch of grain, some lemon grass and a note of herbal honey and late zesty smooth grassy bitterness to make it insanely drinkable. Great summer beer!
3.6 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
12oz bottle. A great wheat ale! Poured a hazy golden yellow with a medium sized white head. Nose of citrus, European hops and yeast. light-medium in body and a very refreshing finish.
3.4 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
(12 oz bottle: Obtained in trade with Eyedrinkale, thanks Mike!) Mmm mmm, that breadiness is tasty as could be. But wait, I thought this is a wheat beer? Extremely bready, quite sweet and fruity, lightly spicy and hoppy, with a solid grain/wheat malty base. Okay, so it’s a really good American wheat beer. Lots of sweet, bready malt and fruit in the nose, but not really all that wheaty and certainly no aroma of hops. Medium bodied, and pretty substantial for a summer wheat beer. Pale golden in color, slightly hazy, with a lot of flaky particles suspended in the beer. The small white head settles to a thin ring, and leaves a number of thin, interconnected strands of lace on the glass. If only all American Wheats tasted this good, it might actually be a worthwhile style.
4.4 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 5/5 TASTE 9/10 PALATE 5/5 OVERALL 17/20
cloudy gold with lots of sediment under a medium sized fizzy white head. looks like grapefruit juice. bright, crisp, zesty wheat aroma with touches of peach, lemon, and banana. flavor is bright with wheat but has some peachy fruit notes with some marshmallow sweetness to balance the biting tart acidity. touches of hops as well. light body and refreshing. quite possibly the ultimate american style wheat ale. wow.
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