Henry Weinhards Blackberry Wheat

Formerly brewed at Miller Brewing Company (MillerCoors)
Style: Fruit Beer
Milwaukee, Wisconsin USA

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Ever since Wasatch brewery in Park City, Utah stopped making raspberry wheat I have been left with an empty place in my beer drinking diet. Thank goodness that I have found this beer to supplement my beer diet. My preference for beer is Pilsner but for variety I also enjoy fruit beers.

Henry Weinhard’s, Blitz-Weinhard Company--Blackberry Wheat Ale--2001 12 oz. Bottle. 5.00% ABV? (4.0 / 5.0) Blackberry opening. Big CO2 head. Medium lace. Clear bright golden berry color. Blackberry floral hop front. Smooth creamy malty wheat spice body with thin blackberry flavor. Mellow clean citrus spice end. Sampled 11/22/2001.

Color is a brown lightly hinted with red tones and has a white head about two fingers high that retained well with some huge divets and nice level web-like lacing. Smells of blackberries, I guess, I don't smell those every day, so I'll just say blackberries. It has a sweet malt backing as well thats faintly behind the blackberry. Taste is well...blackberry, nothing overwhelming though, its blended in nicely with a reasonably sweet malt thats all very smooth and quite good. This is how a flavored fruit beer should taste. The balance between the malt and blackberry is dead on. Feel is medium bodied with a nice fruit tang and bitterness thats very easy to handle. Out of the Weinhard's family of beers, this is the one I don't see all that much but always grab when I do, over any of the others.

Yeah its good. The only beer that I have had that is somewhat fruity and I still like.

If you want a sweet beer, this one is definately sweet. It was a nice one to drink on a hot summer day. The blackberry taste gave it something new that I hadn’t tasted in beers before.

Body is brown with red tones and has a white small head. Smells of blackberries of course, and some malts. It has a sweet malt taste mixed with blackberry and a little wheat. Nice balance with this fruit beer. Not too much blackberry.

One hell of a fruit beer! Very fruty and refreshing aroma, alot of blackberry. High in carbonate and sparkling, fullbodied mouth feel with a mix of malt and blackberry. Not a long lasting head though! Love this beer.

A decent beer. A little too fruity for my tastes. I think the blackberry aroma and flavor were overpowering. A little tart too if I remember correctly. Not a bad beer for a fruit beer.

enjoyed the fruit flavor but the store i bought this at said it has been scratched

wonderful berry aroma, however the berry flavors are just a bit too overwhelming....not a balanced beer, but pretty good nonetheless..i tried this after a lambic, so i’m sure it heightened the sweet intensity of the beer.