Bells Oberon Ale

Brewed by Bells Brewery
Style: Wheat Ale
Kalamazoo, Michigan USA

Serve in Shaker, Weizen

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Thanks to Pailhead for this beer.

Poured a cloudy golden with a small fizzy off-white head. Sweet aroma of clove, a touch of banana, caramel, and lemon. Taste is light citrus, grass, a bit of sugary sweetness and lots of dry toffee. Reasonably full body with good carbonation for the style. Goes down very well for the style, even though it’s still a style that fails to impress me.

Cloudy straw gold body, small white head. Aroma is sweet and somewhat fruity. Flavor is mild overall, with some Saaz hoppiness and a bit of lemony zest. Not a bad quaffer.

Bottle. Batch 9855. Cloudy orangish yellow pour with a medium white head. Aroma is clove, wheat, citrus, spicy. Flavor is wheat, a bit of spice, some citrus. Effervescent mouthfeel.

On tap and bottle. Appearance: Pours a dark shiny orange with lasting white head, nice. Aroma: Spicy and fruity hops, I get pepper, mango and pinneaples. Taste: Some spiciness too, but even more fruity. Orange peel, pinneaple, banana The wheat caracter is more noticeable is the taste. Palate: Full bodied with a nice bitter finish and quite dry. Overall: I like this one a lot, very crisp and refreshing. Nice hybrid between a wheat and a PA.

Pours a great thick white head and has a moderately carbonated. Color is golden with big chunks of yeast, far from a smooth cloudiness. Aroma is wheat and orange. Flavor is mostly wheat with a soft orange to follow. Mouth feel on this beer is a light and the chunks of yeast add a gritty feeling in the mouth. Drinkable but have enjoyed other beers from Bells a lot more.

Poured into a weizen glass. 4.0 A: Hazy golden yellow color. Big frothy white head with good retention and moderate lacing. 3.5 S: Aroma is just chock full of wheat and mainly just wheat. No spiciness of any sorts and just a touch of herbal hops. 3.0 T: Overall, this is pretty bland. Neutral wheat flavor. Not really any hops. I’ll admit that the subtleties come through after the second or third beer, but that’s not good enough for me. 3.5 M: Medium body. Good carbonation. Not bad. 3.5 D: This is incredibly smooth and not bad, but it is a little boring. Still, I wouldn’t mind having a few every once in a while. Serving type: bottle Reviewed on: 06-26-2009 03:27:51

Thick yellow/orange with a floral nose. Nice honey and dried fruit tones with somewhat of a hoppy finish.t

Thanks go out to the Hot and Spicy BeanDip for bringing the Oberon and Porter back from her travels, BeanDip Rocks!

I’m drinking this baby out of my Erdinger Weizen glass…Poured in the sediment to make it a cloudy blustery sunrise of gold and orange, a head of frothy white sea foam blows to shore.
The flavor and aroma suggest a dusty wheat likeness, orange zest, a pinch of cinnamon, bananas, and peach juice. The palate is sublime….smooth and creamy. Bitter fruity banana and orange peel finish….. Quite enjoyable

had this on draft in chi town: this one was poured out a rich orange color haze with bits of a white whimsical head. nose of yeasty mites and citrus blanching. this one reminds me alot of pyramid heffe with a little extra special twist of spice and thickness. a good beer.

12 oz. bottle. I don’t really understand why so many raters are dumping on this beer?! the stats page looks like a yo-yo. why not rate a beer for what it is, within the style it has been placed? IMO this is one of the better thirst quenching flavorful Amer. wheat I have sampled. I may have just found a new summer session beer.