Nelson Liplock

Brewed by Nelson Brewing Company (Canada)
Style: Wheat Ale
Nelson, Canada

Serve in Shaker, Weizen

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341ml bottle pours a slightly hazy golden color with a finger of white head that leaves a few spots of lacing on the glass. Aroma is light malts and hops. Taste is light malty sweetness with a mild hop bitterness. A refreshing and easy to drink beer on a hot summers day.

Cloudy light yellow with medium head. Nose has buttered popcorn, wonderbread, light hops, roast beef and a touch of toffee. Interesting mix. Flowery start in the mouth but quickly fades into a true wheat-grain coating. Extremely soft and light toffee throughout. Dulls a bit near the end with little aftertaste. A bit too lightly carbonated.

It looks, smells, tastes, and feels like a generic wheat, no more and no less. Colour was a cloudy light gold underneath a foamy white head of perhaps one finger’s depth. Nothing to get excited about with this one, I’m afraid.

***review from May 6, 2008***
Poured out a decent looking, very weak white gold brew, cloudy with weird white coloured blobby sediment, not much head and no lacing. The aroma is mild with some honey, slight spice and lots of wheat. Also, there is an overwhelming dominant smell that must be linked to the hops - I didn’t like this one bit. It has a strange sour bitterness that is just too much to let you enjoy the beer. Sour with some wheat. This beer has nothing appealing about it.

"Pale bright yellow ( wait a minuet pale bright yellow that makes no sense) with standard bubble skiff, looks ok but boring. Aroma seems be made up of dark wheat with a buttery finish. Not to appealing but not offensive . My first sip was horrible all I tasted was stale barn dust, the wheat can be tasted but its horrid there seems to be perfume hiding in the back ground, what the hell went wrong with this beer it should have tasted good but doesn’t at all. Got zero enjoyment from this, bad hefe no yeast, no banana, seems to be alot missing from it."

341ml brown bottle. Very pale, washed out yellow colour. Head is small, creamy and short lasting. No lacing to speak of. A little haze. Aroma is wheaty with a little tanginess. Flavour has a noticeable grassy hop character which I was not expecting, obvious wheat notes, grain and mineral notes as well. Grass carries over to the aftertaste. Light thin body with a lot of carbonation. I could see this beer as an acceptable thirst quencher in the summer months, though there are probably better choices.

Light straw and hazy colour with medium head. Citrusy aroma with a touch of wheat. Flavour is thinner and not too much wheat character. Yeast is a little off it appears as the beer warms.

Light grassy, yeasty aroma. Pours a pale, slightly cloudy yellow, white head. Mostly wheat, grassy flavour. Some acids in the finish. Patio drinking beer, but no enough to bring you back for more.

side-by-side comparison of two local American wheats: this one and Grasshopper by Big Rock. Liplock is much lighter in colour, a very pale yellow with a slight haze to it. With the Big Rock beer there is a definite wheaty estery component to the nose, but with this one it is more tangy, and slightly lemony. Grasshopper has more of a wheaty palate too, whereas this one is pleasantly light and a little tart, but without much substance to it. A refreshing summer beer to be sure, but not a lot of character to comment on.

(341ml bottle) Purchased from the BC Liquor Store at Cambie for $1.92. Usually I like the beers from this brewery but this selection was somewhat weak. Pours a frothy medium head with a clouded yellow body. Nose of white wine (?), yeast and dough. Flavour is milky, horseblanket and weak soggy yeast. Its almost a poor Pils wheat with less excitement.