New Glarus Crackd Wheat Ale

Brewed by New Glarus Brewing Company
Style: Wheat Ale
New Glarus, Wisconsin USA

12oz via bbb63, shaed with my girlfriend. Pours orange wiht a tan head. Nose is sweet wheaty and amazing. Taste is sweet, citrussy and incredibly smooth excellent Wheat!

Courtesy fantomas23. This one pours a very hazy, golden yellow color with a huge, foamy white head that slowly recedes to rings of lacing around the glass. The aroma is nice and shows wheat, clove, banana, cinnamon, to go with some citrus and floral hops. The flavor follows with the fresh wheat, sweet cinnamon and clove spices, to go along with the bitterness of the citrus and floral hops. Newly ripened bananas add to the fruity flavor provide just enough sweetness. Medium bodied with a lot of carbonation that leads to a dry, bitter finish. Maybe a touch too much carbonation. This is a another great wheat beer from New Glarus. Nobody does wheat beers like Dan Carey does.

Bottle: Very cloudy, pale straw yellow color with a big frothy white head. Aroma is dominated by cloves with hints of citrus and banana bread. There’s alot of different spices upon initial taste, but they actually fade and mesh quite well the more you drink. Yeast and bubblegum flavors also present. Light to medium body with lively carbonation. Quite a different take on the style.

Thanks, Cheeseman. Strong aroma of lemons and wheat. Flavors follow. Pretty damn good wheat beer.

Bottle , thanks to CaryTheDude. Wow this is one of the best looking Wheat beers I have seen, a slightly hazy golden body with a huge fluffy white head,loads of lacing ,medium carbonation. Aroma is as good as it looks, yeasty,wheaty,with a hint of herbs,lemon,bananna,and clove. Flavor is right on creamy clove banana, bubblegum, cinnamon, a little grassy with some nice little citrus notes, creamy mouthfeel,ever so slightly dry with some nice yeasty and spice aftertaste, Very drinkable, I could down glass after glass of this tasty brew, Well done New Glarus !

Bottle and served in my smaller Ayinger glass: Pale and slightly hazy golden hue with a huge fluffy head which left excellent lacework upon the glass. WOW, that nose is intense, the piney and leafy hop vapours combine with the spicy and fruity wheat yeast esters to create something that is unique and takes some getting use to. Some of the weizen characteristics are push way back by the hops. The flavors seems to clash more than accent each other. Add the astringent and metallic mess of the aftertaste and you got a beer simply done wrong. Give me a NG Black Wheat, Solstice Weiss, Copper Kettle, or Dancing Man over this any day of the week!!! Utterly disappointing in it’s lack of execution. A wheat beer for those whom actually dislike wheat beers.

12oz bottle. Pours hazy yellow, capped with a huge white head. Aroma of citrus, earth, banana, wheat, clove and spice. Flavor is initially wheat, banana, peach, marshmallow, and clove. Earthy hops enter towards the finish, and cling to the palate for a while. Solid beer.

Having tried this a few more times, it just doesn’t work for my tastes. Strange one indeed and a let down for NG. Cloudy dark gold colored body with a billowing off white head. Pineapples and bananas were up front in the nose with some more floral characteristics. There is also some raw bread dough and a little bit of clove. The taste is strong clove spice with a dry banana peel finish. I love the nose here, but the taste is a little dry and woody for me. The finish is nearly ashy after drinking a little more. I am normally a huge NG wheat beer fan, but this just doesn’t come together for me. I will definitely rerate on my next bottle.