Dukes Big Ass Beer (Hefeweizen)

Brewed by Jack Russell Brewing Company
Style: Wheat Ale
Camino, California USA

Serve in Shaker, Weizen

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~Pours a cloudy gold with white head. ~Aroma of banana, clove and yeast. ~Sweet banana clove flavor. ~Medium fizzy, frothy feel. Bittersweet finish. ~Enjoyable Hefe. Above average.

Pours from a large swing-top bottle hazy golden with a pretty white head. and a floral citrus aroma. It looks nice, but the flavor is disappointing. Kind of a thin skunky hay taste with a dusty finish.

22 oz. bottle - wow, poor ratings be damned but this was a great brew; pours bright gold and very cloudy; light carbonation and thin white head; strong and smooth aromas of lemons, wheat and yeast; wonderful texture and full bodied flavor; lots of sweetness; yummy

This is from a 12 oz bottle purchased from Corti Bros in Sacramento, CA. Poured a cloudy pale orange with almost no head. Nose is sour and kind of like a horse blanket. Not much mouthfeel. But it is the flavor that stops you in your tracks. It is awful. I am not sue what is in this but it is about as awful tasting a beer as I have seen in a long time. Both my brother and I were in complete agreement...this is a drainpour if you ever saw one. Gag.

Hmm... I did not think this was that bad really. For what it was. Poured a hazy orange brown with almost no head. Aroma of wheat, oranges, and light yeast. The flavor was much the same. Nice light orange accompanied by a little sweet fruit and a generic cereal wheat. Kind of thin, medium carbonation. It could have been a lot worse.

12 ounce bottle purchased from Corti Brothers in Sacramento, CA. Aroma is a bit sour, metallic, and musty. Kind of strange for a hefe. Moderately hazy golden-orange body with a medium, fluffy, manilla head. Fair lacing. Thin, lightly sweet, grainy start. There is some mild lemon citrus flavors towards the end. This is very undercarbonated, cardboardy, and very underattenuated. It’s really quite boring. Very rarely will I encourage a person to throw fruit in their weissbiers, but this is a beer in which I would totally approve of that practice with.

The aroma is not banana. It is more like citrus hop (or feline ....). Hazy golden color with a white head that filmed, leaving lace tatters. Very thin in body, light, almost creamy, carbonation. The flavor is indeed something glandular, with some clove and mephistolphian accompanyments. The finish is something metallic, with some citric aspects. The finish is astringently dry, and the mouth is not left in a happy condition. Strange stuff. PIne accents appear upon continued assumption (hence the earlier reference to cat ...?). Overall it is not really disgusting, it is just unexpected. So it is what it is. The mouth adjusts somewhat with the passage of time, hence the rating in excess of the average, I suppose.

One and done about sums it up. The name peaked my curiosity so I bought the 32oz bottle w/ the flip cap. The marketing is much better than the beer.

Bottle: Whoa, look at those ratings!!! I’m going to be blowing this one away with a good review here. I got my bottle through the beer of the month club and found it to be a nice made hefe, not exceptional, but certainly not bad. Misty yellow, orange, thin head, nice lacing. Nose of sweet malt and honey, clean tart and citric esters (orange, clove). The flavor is a bit musky, some sweet honey and sulpher notes. Not bad, needs more hops. Finishes a bit tangy and musky.

(33 oz flip-top bottle: $5.99 at BevMo in San Jose, CA) Uhm, I really don’t know where to begin with this beer. Those of us who would actually buy this because we haven’t rated it yet, we’re either stupid or hardcore, or both probably. This is a pretty dreadful wheat beer. The sweet, fruity nose smells like peach juice. That is, until I gave the beer a quick swirl to kick up some head. Whoa, that is some foul-smelling stuff. I’d try to describe the various aromas of plastic, fuel and God’s knows whatever else it smells like, but why bother, let’s just say it smells like Duke’s Big Ass and be done with it. I didn’t think things could get any worse, but amazingly, I was wrong. Taking just a single sip is making my stomach turn. I think it’s supposed to be a coriander flavor, but the base wheat flavor of this beer is so bad, the coriander just makes things even worse. Light in body, very watery in the finish, typical carbonation, but the flavor and especially the aftertaste are so bad, I want to spit this out. Light-golden in color and nearly transparent. The half inch of white head settles to a wide ring, leaving no lacing. One of the worst beers I’ve ever tasted, and I mean that quite literally. A drainpour if ever there was one.