Bells Wheat Love Ale

Grassy wheat aroma with a nice sweet sugary citrus backing. A slight hint of caramel as well. Flavor is more of the sweeter side, light citrus and coriander notes coming through with a bubbly sugar taste sweetness. Palate is quite smooth, it has some initial grainy feel to it, but smooths out from the sugars mixing with the alcohol.

Bottle courtesy of hippie4beer. Pours blonde with a small white head. Aroma is of smoked malt. Flavor is again smokey combined with typical Belgian strong ale notes. Didn’t notice any smokey remarks in previous reviews, but this one is more like a rauchbier than a Belgian strong to me.

Wow, that’s some concentrated wheat flavor. Seriously, this beer is all about the wheat. Cloudy orangeish yellow, with a foamy head. Very light palate. The flavor and aroma are wheat beer. concentrated, like at said at the first. Weren’t you paying attention? Thanks to Jcapriotti for the trade!

(bonus brew by way of 1faststi)the "love" was a super murky yellow with a nice white head.aroma was loads of wheat followed by some belgian yeast,and caramel malts.flavor was much like a belgian strong ale with lots of wheat thrown in.mouthfeel was nice and thick.im usually not into wheat type beers but this was really tasty.

A nice way to cap the wheat series from Bell’s. Poured a very cloudy dark orange color, slight head to it. Typical estery aroma of a wheat beer, but tons of yeast as well. Tasted the same, tons of yeast and wheat flavor, with some slight sweet banana and citrus notes as well. This is like a stronger, thicker version of a hefeweizen. good beer, but this was a much slower drink for me than the other beers from this series. Good work, Bell’s!

Bottle. This stuff kicks up a good head when swirled but doesn’t kick out that powerful of an aroma. I get cake donut, and sweet but lightly toasted wort - very clean and pronounced malts in the aroma. The flavor and mouthfeel do great justice to the beer’s name sweet ’n creamy. Soft carbonation and a medium viscosity contribute to a great mouthfeel. The flavor brings clean toasty grain, green pepper (light) yeast spice, vanilla frosting and stemmy, barky hops. Toasty/sweet finish with stemmy hops. While the hops and yeast take second fiddle to the big malt backbone they’re interesting enough to stand out by themselves. My complaint about this beer is that the sweetness gets dull after a while. It’s very clean and tasty but it’s also one-dimensional.

I’ll preface this rating with my opinion that this beer is the best of the wheat series. Immidiatly I smell fresh cut wheat, reminiscent of my limited experiances at relatives farms. There is aslo a nice spice aroma. This beer is ver complex. Nice sweet malts start this one out with a quick follow of bitterness. This bitterness quickly dissapears into spices, banana and a bit of breadyness. This is a very nice twist on the belgian style. To add to it all, this could easily be a daily drinker/session beer.

Bottle courtesy of Pailhead: Bottle conditioned. Pours to a cloudy, mostly opaque amber-orange-yellow with a thick, frothy white head that lasts and fades to a thin coating and a larger ring around the outside of the glass. The aroma is grass, straw, light floral hops, spice, yeast, very slightly funky like a saison, light herbs, fruit, a hint of wheat, very mild bananas, and a touch of bubblegum. The taste is midly tart wheat up front, followed by a quick burst of saison spice/yeast, a bit of floral/grassy/earthy hops, banana, and then sugary wheat grains, toasted grains, mild lemon/citrus zest, and just a small amount of peppery alcohol in there if you look for it. Finishes with notes of dry wheat, sweet freeze-dried bananan, light esters, and a hint of spicy yeast. Medium-full bodied with medium carbonation, definitely naturally carbonated and the bottle conditioning helps this one, leaving the bubbles tiny, crisp, and restraining them from interfering with the flavors. Man this one totally defies "style". Nice.