New Glarus Crackd Wheat Ale

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

courtesy of goryshkewych. Pours cloudy straw, thick white head. Aroma is fruity, sweet citrus and note of wheat. Flavor, wheat, spices, cinnamon and hops. Mouthfeel has notes of spices, smooth with light tingly finish.

12 oz bottle courtesy of alagnak. Pour is hazed straw yellow with a big 3 inch white head which is quite lasting. Eventually falls with nice streaked lacing. Some visible carbonation bubbles. Aroma of earthy floral wheat, soft honey and mild apricot hop. Perhaps a touch of bubblegum in the back. Nice soft and fresh nose. Taste is clove apricot peach and the wheatiness. Earthiness and mineral come across cleanly as well, as with the nose. There is some banana yeast way in the finish, along with a white pepper spice. Not a strong spice, but wakes it up in the finish. Palate is medium, creamy mouthfeel, carbonation level is nice making it quite drinkable. This is a nice style bender, had some Hefe, some Saison some wit and some straight Wheat ale characteristics. Nice one, thanks Chris.

12 oz bottle after a hard days work moving a friend into Wisconsin. Pours a light cloudy golden orange with a creamy white froth. Really nice wheat and citric fruity hops, just perfectly in balanced, nice banana clove spiciness and a bready character. Very fresh, tangy fruitiness. Flavor starts with a fresh crisp citric, followed quickly by the coriander, clove character. Gets a mellow banana (with peel?) flavor before finishing spicy with a hops and leaving a dried fruit flavor along with a mild bitterness. Medium body and a sharp fizzy carbonation. Really refreshing and zesty after a long day of heavy lifting.

Cross between a good hefe and a blue moon. Banana and clove in the front end with some moderate hops. Similar to Bell’s oberon but with a little more hops.

Bottle thanks to BarrytheBear (BA)!
Opaque straw-yellow with a nice sized, fizzy white head. Nose and flavor both of wheat, banana, and lemon. More sweetness in the flavor, a little too much in fact. Would prefer a cleaner wheat profile.

Pours golden with plenty of white head. Fruity notes are present as soon as it’s poured. Some banana, and apple and lemon. Full creamy palate. Flavor is banana and some yeast. This is a very good one.

12 oz bottle acquired via trade. Poured out a hazy yellow with a gigantic cap of white foam. Seriously, my initial pour was pretty much only foam. Aroma was clove, banana, pepper, and citrus fruits. Flavor was much the same, up front it was all the things you’d expect from a German hef and behind that there was a nice citrus hop kick. Very interesting take on the style, and I would enjoy having another of these someday.

Found this a bit of a head-scratcher - APA meets hefe. It’s certainly drinkable but if it didn’t exist I wouldn’t bother inventing it. Summer fruits dominate - peach, apricot and hefe banana with some clove spice in the finish. Bit soapy and indistinct in the mid-palate. Refreshing but a bit of a novelty IMO. Much preferred their Dancing Man. (Bottle courtesy of Oslo - thanks buddy - at the Milson Point park session September 09)