Dundee Wheat Beer

Brewed by High Falls Brewing Company
Style: Wheat Ale
Rochester, New York USA

12 oz bottle from the Craft Pack. No way is this really a Hefe. I was 8 beers in when I tried this, but I was still sober enough to realize that this tasted nothing like a hefe. I guess thats why its listed as a Wheat Ale.

Hazy orange yellow body with a small creamy white head. Sweet light banana aroma. Thin banana flavor, light what hints. Fairly non-descript.

Bottle: Pours a hazy gold with a large, creamy white head. Nose is lagerish malt, a little honey, and a little wheat. Tastes thin with wheat tones, lager malt, and a bit metallic. Has this weird chalky sensation up front. Not good.

Nose: malty, sugarwheat and banana. Pours a golden colour beer. Some carbonation, maltybanana, bit of wheat. Artificial sweet taste that is off-putting.

all the hefe characteristics, but a strange amber dundee sweet after-taste that doesn’t go with the hefe. other than that, good for the price

bottle poured a yellow golden in color with a big two finger head when poured and a decent layer of head left on the beer. smell is grains and wheat, yeast spice, citrus, and malts. so far pretty good. taste is on the thin side, slides across the tongue easy, and has a fairly good wheat beer taste. definitely lacks the high end yeast and the creaminess that good malts bring to the table but for the price of the stuff it is not bad.

This one came to my very highly recommended by a fellow employee of the beer industry. While I was eagerly anticipating loving this, the moment the first sip went down my throat, I was left with a rather bleak outlook on life....and this brew! The aftertaste was just bloody awful! 12oz Bottle, poured a typical hazy orange, with the usual malty/citrus aroma. Initial taste was decent, at best. THIS is why I stick to German brews of this sort.

Pours a hazy gold with a dense, frothy, white head. While it looks quite nice, this beer is a perfect example of the adage that "looks are only skin deep". The aroma is a dusty, straight wheat and little more. Light-bodied and thin with a sour and lightly dry finish. The flavor is sour wheat with an acidic, almost metallic, finish. This is definitely not the refreshing easy drinker that I’ve grown to expect from an American wheat. Put simply, it’s just not very good. Perhaps I sampled an "off" bottle, but finishing this beer was not a prospect that I entertained for even a second.

Re-Rate on 4/2/08: I recently discovered the remainder of the six pack I purchased back in September ’07. I thought, "what the hell", and cracked one. It’s still a pretty poor example of the style, but it wasn’t nearly as offensive as I remember it being. Don’t get me wrong. It’s still a pretty poor example of the style and I will never purchase it again, but in hindsight, I’ve had worse. It’s pretty odd that 6 months of aging would improve a standard wheat but it did. I’m giving it a modest bump, because upon further review it doesn’t deserve to remain at the bottom of my rated beers. [Original Rating: 1.3; 4/4/2/2/1]