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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Name: Major Tom’s Pomegranate Wheat
Date: 02/20/2007
Mode: Bottle
Source: Roadtrip

hazy yellow, fine white head, lots of drippy lace, slightly sweet fruity aroma, delicate flavor, light fruity character that continues to grow, touch of sweetness, nice light tartness shows up to add complexity, light hop flavor and bitterness provides balance, bitterness grows to balance the growing fruityness,

Aroma: 5/10; Appearance: 6/10; Flavor: 5/10; Palate: 5/10; Overall: 10/20
Rating: 2.6/5.0
Drinkability: 7/10
Score: *4

(12oz bottle) Medium off-white head atop lightly hazed apple juice body. Aroma is medium sweet, dough/bread, flower, some pomegranate tartness. Taste is medium sweet, wheat, dough, some pomegranate, light lemon. Light-medium body, light acidity.

Barrel Draught from the jug at the GABF, Colorado Convention Center 29/09/2005 Light golden coloured with a slightly hazy appearance. Extremely hoppy. Some dryness and bitterness in the finish.

12 oz bottle-pours a foamy white head and yellow color. Aroma is sweetish, grain/wheat, chamomile?, slightly off. Taste is musty/sweet grain/wheat, some fruit/chamomile? Is it pomegranate juice concentrate or real pomegranate, read the label-its both. Mild carbonation. Not my taste.

Bottle from Supermarket Liquors in Fort Collins, CO. Pours light orange gold with a large foamy whiteish head. Very llght pomegranate aroma. Med body/foamy carbonation. It starts a bit sweet, but per advertisement the pomegranate turns it tart. Does that each quaff. Pretty drinkable when you are looking for a non-hop brew.

Bottle… Pours clear and yellow with a small, transparent head. The bouquet is built upon piny, musky hops and pale grains with a restrained fruit component. Medium-bodied with tingly carbonation. The flavor starts with a pomegranate twang, but that quickly cedes to moderate, earthy, bitterness. Finishes lightly bitter, earthy and a touch dry.

Bottle from Keg Liqours. Poured a clear dark amber color with a large off-white head that was mostly lasting with good lacing. Moderate sweet citrus aroma. Medium body with sticky texture. Moderate bitter flavor with a smooth moderate bittersweet finish of moderate duration. Interesting beer.

12oz bottle. Poured a medium and slighty hazy golden color with an averaged sized white head. Aromas of I guess pomegranate (I can’t place it and I don’t have too much experience with pomegranates) with some faint wheat in the background. Tastes of pretty much the same. Has a lighter tartness to it.

A hazy golden ale with a thin white head. A rather doughy alt aroma, wiht light hops, and notes of oxidation. In mouth, a nice wheaty malt with some nice hops, a bit floral, a rather nice lasting bitterness, some fruity notes in finale, becoming cloying. Medium bodied. Bottle from Fort Collins mix 12-pack, bought at Half Time, July 2008.

bottle. filtered straw gold. white bread crust and perfume flower petal fruit nose; soft and starchy. filmy, oily and slick; medium-light body. light citrus fruit rind oil. moderately bitter and lightly peppery. clean but uninteresting.