Dundee Wheat Beer

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]

Pours a slightly hazy caramel-amber with virtually no head. Smells a tad grassy. Smooth in the mouth and carries a little bit of a sweet caramel flavor. There’s also a little bit of an aftertaste. It’s not bad but nothing special.

This is certainly no Hefe- and for an American Wheat, it’s kind of boring. I compared their Amber Lager to one of Michelob’s brews and the similarity between JW Dundee’s and mass produced MIchelob continues....

Aroma: freshly harvested grain. Nice cloudy straw color with persistent small bubbles. Flavor is respectable hops with citrus, pine and faint metallic notes, understated wort. Palate is full and satisfying with good carbonation and decent hop aftertaste. I am not much of a hefe fan, but I would drink this again.