Oakshire Wheat Ale

Brewed by Oakshire Brewing
Style: Wheat Ale
Eugene, Oregon USA

Serve in Shaker, Weizen

Oakshire Brewing – Eugene, OR
Golden in color hazy with a thin head. Nice wheat aroma with clove and banana aromas and flavors. The malt was clear and crisp this was a great wheat ale. Very fresh tasting. Good malt build and a nice amount of bittering hops.

Name: Wheat
Date: September 21, 2009
Mode: Draft
Source: Philly Steaks, Portland
Appearance: hazzy yellow, dense creamy off white head, layers of drippy lace
Aroma: light sweet wheat aroma, light spicyness
Flavor: sweet malt flavor, lots of raspy wheat character, hint of spicyness, light bitterness
Aroma: 5/10; Appearance: 7/10; Flavor: 5/10; Palate: 6/10; Overall: 10/20
Rating: 2.7/5.0
Drinkability: 7/10
Score: ** /4

This was on tap at Lauro Kitchen in Portland. I know my beer and I was very impressed with this one. Yeah, there’s nothing special about it - there’s no hop kick or ester flavors from the yeast. But, what you have is a very smooth, well balanced wheat ale. I could accidentally drink 20 of these.

On tap at Starlight Lounge in Eugene. Pours a sickly looking yellow with a pretty nice white head. Very bland, yeasty and wheaty and made me a little bit nauseous. 2 dollar pints are hard to pass up though, so it goes.

On tap at the PDX Green Dragon. Pours lightly cloudy gold with a smooth white head. This is somewhere stuck between an american wheat and a subtle german wheat, it has just a touch of spiciness to it, but is bland by calling. Utterly unspecial, but probably a crowd pleaser in its own calling. Soft wheat, watery palate, no good dry crispness or full body of a German wheat, no esters.

On tap at Meet the Brewer event at Green Dragon in Portland, OR--Poured a hazy yellow-mustard body with a swirling white head. Yeasty, nutty esters. No real phenolic notes. American style weizen brew. Sweet, creamy finish with a little tang. Not totally my thing, but decent.