2.2 AROMA 4/10 APPEARANCE 2/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 9/20
Light copper-amber colour. Slight breadcrusty malt in the weak aroma. Watery palate with dashes of whole grain bread.
2.9 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
Medium white head atop a sparkling apple juice body. Aroma is fairly sweet, oatmeal raisin cookie, light grassy. Taste is sweet, fruity, tart lemon, some bready, mild grassy. Light body. Very much a summer-time beer. Just not really up my alley.
2.3 AROMA 4/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 9/20
Poured a medium golden color with an averaged sized white head. Aromas of light lemons with light hops. Tastes of citrus, sweet malts and lightly bready. Thinner body.
2.7 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 11/20
Pours a clear clean golden with a puffy, thin-lacing, white head. Has a lightly fruity lager yeast aroma with a touch of adjuncts. Body is mild with some corny sweetness and a bland, faintly hoppy finish. Could use much more balance and complexity to live up to its style, but still drinkable.
2 AROMA 4/10 APPEARANCE 2/5 TASTE 4/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 8/20
Bottle. Pours a pale gold with a small patchy white head, lasts, some spotty lacing. Aroma is soapy, sour yeast and malt (grain, cereal) with fruity hops. Yeasty medium bitter and acidic hop flavor, finish is soapy and sweaty. Light bodied and fizzy palate.
1.9 AROMA 4/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 3/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 7/20
Bottle poured a clear yellow with a small diminishing white head. Aromas of bread, straw and earthiness. Palate was light bodied. Flavors of bread, an unappealing earthiness and some grassiness with an annoying dry bitter finish.
2.8 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 10/20
NABA ’04: Pale blond color, off-white head with some lacing. The aroma is citrusy with hops, lightly sweet flavor like an orange and some musky malts. Finishes malty, musky.
2.2 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 2/5 TASTE 4/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 9/20
Head is initially small, fizzy/frothy, white, mostly diminishing.
Body is clear medium yellow.
Aroma is lightly malty (toasted grain), lightly hoppy (flowers), with a note of lemon peel.
Flavor is moderately sweet, lightly acidic, lightly bitter.
Finish is lightly sweet, lightly acidic, moderately bitter, husky.
Light to medium body, watery texture, lively carbonation.
The commercial description doesn’t say this uses wheat, but it sure seems to be a textbook American Wheat to me. Not much in the nose, watery, thin, grainy/husky aftertaste. Not my first choice for a light summer quaffer (pass me that Reno’s Retirement, please).
2.9 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 11/20
Light straw color with a wispy white head. Light aromas of pale malt, honey and mild light fruit. Light bodied. Light sweet malt swart with a touch of lemony cirtus to crisp things up. A general lawnmow’n brew.
3.1 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
Orange gold color. Medium to large sized white foamy head. Aroma is fruity and sweet, orange, raisins and a touch of grass. A light to medium bodied kolsch. Malts are fruity and sweet. Lots of orange and apple flavors. A touch too sweet and a bit too much like apple juice, yet there is a slight hop bite at the finish, Light and refreshing. A good summer beer, if you are looking for something sweet. Mouthfeel is full and round. Finish is clean and smooth. Aftertaste is slightly sweet.
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