Lost Coast Watermelon Wheat

Brewed by Lost Coast Brewery & Cafe
Style: Fruit Beer
Eureka, California USA

Serve in Flute, Shaker

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Draught. Pours a hazy copper color with a medium white head on it. Nose will punch you right in the face with watermelon flavor without much else coming through. Taste is slightly sweet, but again dominated by the watermelon. Wouldn’t be bad on a very hot summer day, but not really my bag.

On tap at Reilly’s in Seoul. It poured a fairly clear orange color with a great watermelon aroma. The flavor was a bit of watermelon at first, followed by a bit of malt and ending on an artificial candy type finish. I have yet to try a good watermelon beer... they always wind up tasting artificial.

Sample from Vine and Barley. Pours a pale golden with a white head. Aroma - well, truly this is the highlight and the finish with this brew - is a terrific strong, mouth watering, watermelon aroma with a subtle under-blend of fruits. Lovely. Taste is more banal; mostly faint watermelon. The wheat may have overwelmed the fruity taste? Finishes mostly guten-y. Shrug?

A great watermelon. Different from 21st Amendment’s version. Pours a beautiful orange-amber color with a white head. Smells exactly like watermelon. Taste is stronger and sweeter then 21st. Less carbonated, and creamier. 21st is more subtle. Very good beer, but a sipper. Had on tap at Louie’s in Mt. Shasta

Aroma was sweet like watermelon, but candy watermelon supplemented by wheat. Taste hints at the watermelon, but is mostly wheat. Pours is a yellow.

On tap at the Brass Tap, poured an amber redish pink color, with aromas of light wheat, rind, sugar and watermelon jolly rancher. Flavors are the same, but not as much watermelon as the nose suggests. Interesting beer, brought me back to my childhood with the uncanny similarities of jolly ranchers.

Draft... Pours a clear light amber with a mid-sized, wispy, white head. Great retention. Honestly, this smells like a cross between a green apple and watermelon Jolly Rancher. Pretty amazing, really. Light-bodied with fizzy carbonation. The flavor is well-balanced and consists mainly of biscuit, toffee and wheat malts, but there is also a touch of fruity watermelon and a trace of acidity. Finishes crisp and a just a smidge buttery. Surprisingly decent. Although watermelon doesn’t translate all that well to beer, at least Lost Coast had the courage to give it a go. It’s a shame the flavor is fairly boring and doesn’t match the intensity of the nose, but this beer is certainly worth trying.

4/22/12. On tap. Barely hazed golden por with a big, thick khaki head that sticks and laces plenty. Huge watermelon aroma that borders on watermelon jolly ranchers or other candies (but not so tart). There’s also a touch of cream in there. Watermelon on the flavor as well, not quite as bold as the aroma, with more cream, soft wheat, and a bit of bitter rind. Interesting and not too bad.

Pours light gold in color with a thin white head. Aroma is watermelon bubble gum 100%. Taste is watermelon candy up front that slowly transforms into smooth light malts. Interesting.

UPDATED: MAY 9, 2012 Looks like a typical american wheat beer. Has a pronounced watermelon jolly rancher aroma. Flavor is not good, elements just don’t blend well, and the watermelon flavor is more of rind.