Fort Collins Major Toms Pomegranate Wheat

Brewed by Fort Collins Brewery
Style: Fruit Beer
Fort Collins, Colorado USA

Serve in Flute

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Transparent and pale bronze in color with a creamy, jiggly, off-white and fluffy head. Lemons, raspberry seeds, pomegranate kernels, apple juice, clover and kneaded honey dough sum up the aroma. Spritsy qualities crack right out of the gate, receding to crescent rolls, lemons and pome juice. Light raspberry cream cheese danish flavor characteristics. Quite interesting, really, but just a step up from pale lagers when taking the big picture into account. Heavily effervescent, too carbonated, and void of wheat based malts. Finish proceeds in like fashion, with raspberry cider and diluted, extracted pome juice.

Pours a slightly hazy amber with average head that quickly fades leaving a nice lattice of lacework. Aroma is quite peachy with some wheat accents. Lively carbonation with a refreshing flavor for a fruit beer. Flavor is somewhat peachy with a very pinot grigio flavor and a nice bitter tartness on the finish.

UPDATED: FEB 12, 2006 Bottle, courtesy of pdee Thanks!

Pours a nice, frothy gold with cloudy highlights. Nice head, no clinging lace. Aroma is flat peach with hints of rose. Flavor is like a nice, exotic chardonay, with rose hips and peach to round it out. A nice balance of sweet and bitter; a good beer on which you should get your hands. Palate is thick. Good, good beer!

To approach this one you must have your palate cleansed. I tried a sip after eating some Tillamook "Special Reserve" cheese and it tasted like cow manure!! No joke. But it was the cheese combination at fault. After I cleared my mouth of the cheesy element I was able to briefly pickc out maybe a hint of pomegranate. At least a beery illusion of it. It smells very nice. It is a golden/grey in color, like gasoline but darker. Starts out with the bold manure-ish flavour, gets sweet/sour, and finishes sour. If it were a touch less sour and unfiltered it might be up a notch or two.

From a bottle into a snifter. Peer pours a clear, medium, dark, orange-yellow color with a large, frothy, mostly-lasting head and nice lacing. The aroma is a a lot like a wheat beer: moderately malty with notes of toasted grain, lightly hoppy with sunny notes of pine and dry straw. There’s only a trace presence of sweet fruit / lime in the nose. The flavor is moderately sweet and lightly bitter with an average-length modertely sweet, lightly bitter finish. The body is medium, the texture is watery and the carbonation is lively. Not a bad beer, but I’m not feelin’ any fruity love here, just a little tartness in the nose and sweetness in the flavor.

(12 oz bottle: Obtained in trade with Ughsmash, thanks Jason!) I don’t really think of pomegranate as a really flavorful fruit, maybe because I can’t take a bite of it and get a nice mouthful of fleshy fruit. Although it’s been several years since I last tasted a fresh pomegranate, I remember it being mostly just tart. Well, this is an extremely fruity beer, fairly tart with a mild sweetness to take some of the edge off. It reminds me of eating a fruit salad of grapefruit, passion fruit and a few peach wedges thrown in for a hint of sweetness. The fruit is flavorful enough that I really can’t taste much of the wheat in the background, but that’s nothing too unusual for a fruited wheat beer. Mildly sweet fruits dominate the nose, but the tartness is also quite evident. Light bodied but not watery. Carbonation is lively on the palate. Pale golden in color with slight haze, the steady streams of tiny carbonation bubbles are plainly visible. The white head pours to about an inch in height and settles to a thin layer with a wide ring. A dense curtain of lace is left on the glass initially, though it soon condenses to an ice crystal pattern. I have to say, I was pretty impressed with this one. Nice aroma, interesting and enjoyable flavor, and quite different from any of the fruit beers I remember sampling thus far. I’d definitely drink this again.

Bottle. Scents of last nights spilled beer and must on the nose. Very nice off-white head. Off tasting beery flavors, sour and bitter with no discernable pomagranate and no wheat either. Not very enjoyable at all.

Tap at the brewery. Very light straw body with a lasting foam head. Nose-kinda like bud light and apple. Taste-great crisp acid bite from the pomegranate. Very well done and different, in a good way.

My 100th Colorado beer. A medium and cloudy yellow body when poured out of the bottle. The aroma is that nice fruity note of pomegranate. It is like an apple with more tart raspberries. The taste is rich and dry. The pomegranate makes it slightly tart, similar to raspberries. Come on, I am trying to describe pomegranate flavor without saying only that. There is also a note of dry vinous character. This is a refreshing and crisp summer beer. I like this more than I should. Better than most American fruit wheats.

pours a slighly cloudy golden color with a large white head and decent amount of lacing. mild aroma overall, but strong with fruit (pomegranate) with a wine like aroma through-out. Flavor is very light and fruity with a very bubbly champagne like testure. this is a very fruity light beer and would be great during a hot summer day on the beach. I don’t usually like wheat’s and I enjoyed this!