Maritime Pacific Clipper Gold Hefeweizen

Brewed by Maritime Pacific Brewing Co.
Style: Wheat Ale
Seattle, Washington USA

Serve in Shaker, Weizen

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Draught @ Jolly Roger Taproom, Seattle. Pours a hazy yellow color with a longlasting white head. Has a wheat malty aroma with some weak hints of banana and hops. Wheat malty citrus flavor with banana hints. Sweetish wheat malty finish with a slightly bitter aftertaste.

Some banana, good malt accent. This was a regular at Archer’s Ale House in Bellingham and I always wondered why...until I tasted it.

Date: September 17, 2009
Mode: Draft
Source: Jolly Roger Taproom
Appearance: cloudy yellow, fine white head, streaks of lace
Aroma: light sweet malt aroma, touch of fruity sweetness, light spicyness
Flavor: sweet wheat flavor, just a touch of banana sweetness, light bitterness with a hint of spicyness, just a touch of wheat tartness adds a nice touch
Aroma: 5/10; Appearance: 6/10; Flavor: 5/10; Palate: 6/10; Overall: 10/20
Rating: 2.6/5.0
Drinkability: 6/10
Score: ** /4

(draft) Opaque lemon yellow body with white head. Aroma is mild sweet, light banana, some wheat, faint lemon. Taste is medium sweet, some banana, some wheat -- flavors are not particularly strong. Light-medium body.

on tap-pours a white head and hazy yellow color. Aroma is faint wheat/malt. Taste is wheat/light malt-some sweet, some off lemon, hint of floral hops. An American wheat.

Draft at the brewery
Very cloudy and deep yellow in color with a big, billowy tall ice-cream head. Flavor is a little bland, stale, soapy... some sour lemon, but not tart. Paper-like, I guess, like chewing on notebook paper. Milky, yeasty nose. Simple.

Tap @ Jolly Roger Taproom. #2000. Light cloudy, yellow orange appearance with a pearl white head. Mild, herbal hoppy, light pale wheat malty nose. A little mild earthy hoppy, light pale wheat malty, slightly citrusy, and a touch sour flavor. Pretty decent wheat ale.

On tap @ the brewpub. Pours opaque hazy gold with straw highlights and bright white head. Classic look with some sheet lacing to boot. The aroma is mild with grain malts, a hint of wheat and a vague hoppiness. The taste is non-wheat maltiness up front with hints of grainy malts and faint wheat. The wheatiness does grow to go along with notes of ripe banana and a hint of bubble gum as the finish approaches. I also get a hop bite tingling away in the background. Pretty nice hefe.

on tap at the jolly roger in seattle. typical dull american wheat, at least a bit zesty in the finish but had no real yeasty qualities

Tap@The Jolly Roger. Typical American wheat. Kinda hoppy, kinda, tangy, kinda lemony and pretty much kinda nothing, but easy to drink, and not all that bad.