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Peak Organic Pomegranate Wheat Ale


 Percentile 
22
overall
Brewed by Shipyard Brewing Company
Style: Fruit Beer

Portland, Maine USA

bottled
common

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242.68/5.02.7/5.0Summer-45.5Flute
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Commercial Description:
This special release Wheat Ale, craft brewed with local organic wheat and coriander, features a hint of organic pomegranate and acai.We hope you enjoy this delicious ale in the presence of friends, family and tasty cuisine. Brewed with antioxidant-rich organic acai from our friends at Sambazon, the world’s leading organic acai source.
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 FunkyBrewster (433), Chicago, Illinois, USA
2.8 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/103/56/103/510/20

Mar 7, 2009    Updated: Mar 10, 2009
Sampled this beer from a representative at Binny’s in Chicago who brought a bottle along. Pours light golden in color with just a hint of pinkish glow. Aroma is very fresh pomegranate juice and sweet bready malt. Flavor starts with citrus and of course more pomegranate. The wheat becomes prevalent around the middle of the tongue and the gains an ever so slight tartness in the back of the mouth. Not overwhelmingly sweet which is good, and no artificial flavors. Medium body and active carbonation. Not necessarily my cup of tea but refreshing and honest.

 17thfloor (1400), Chicago, Illinois, USA
2.7 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
5/103/56/103/510/20
Nov 3, 2009  
On draft at Binny’s Southloop. Pours a clear soda-fizzy slightly purple golden with a thin fizzy head. Aroma is fairly crisp with seemingly sweet fruit syrup. Flavor follows, crisp, cereal, pomegranate is midway between syrupy fake and real, not bad.


 hopscotch (5427), Vero Beach, Florida, USA
2.8 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/103/55/103/510/20
Oct 13, 2009  
Bottle… Clear golden ale with orange highlights and a small, fizzy, white head. Nice retention. The aroma provides buttery sweetness and lightly toasted grains, but is a touch medicinal. Medium-bodied with a fatty mouthfeel and lively carbonation. The flavor is sweet, buttery and lightly fruity with modest, metallic bitterness. Sweet, buttery finish.


 rocbyter (902), Waterbury, Connecticut, USA
2.7 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/103/55/103/510/20
Sep 30, 2009  
Sweet light fruit aroma. Clear golden color with a medium white head. Sweet beginning with paper tangy bitter finish.


areyouinning (72), North Carolina, USA
2.8 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/103/56/103/59/20
Sep 9, 2009  
Clear golden ale with generous carbonation, medium white head and slow lacing. Slightly sweet, fruity aroma. Mild tasting wheat beer, with slight berry note.


 ChainGangGuy (2520), Kennesaw, Georgia, USA
3.5 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/104/57/103/514/20
Sep 4, 2009  
12 ounce bottle - $1.99 at Hop City in Atlanta, Georgia. Appearance: Pours a clear, orange-golden body with a well-sized, lasting layer of white foam. Smell: Sweetish, butterscotch-scented malts with a fruity aroma sweeping in and smelling strongly of pomegranate (the IT fruit of yesterday) and acai berries (the IT fruit of today) with a minute hint of coriander. Taste: Malted wheat and barley with a sweet touch of butterscotch candy. Then in comes the fruity additions of lightly tart pomegranate and Oprah-approved acai berries, the latter of which has tasted vaguely reminiscent of blackberries on the (very) few times I’ve tried them. Touch of leafy coriander. Light, clean hop bitterness that along with the added coriander helps to provide some balance. Finishes semi-dry and lightly crisp with a lingering fruitiness. Mouthfeel: Medium-light body. Medium carbonation. Drinkability: It’s fruity, it’s wheaty, it’s sweetish and fine for the one bottle. I’m happy to be getting an extra dose of antioxidants to cancel out all those cell-damaging free radicals while also pickling my liver.


 Maverick34 (684), New York, USA
2 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/103/53/102/56/20
Aug 30, 2009  
Draft. Poured gold. Strong fruity aromas and almost sickly sweet and syrupy. Not so great.


 roder60 (1019), Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
2.4 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/102/55/102/59/20
Aug 20, 2009  
Pours slight hazy pale yellow with lots of fizzy white head. Aroma was tart lemon and other citrus. Flavor was very very tart and acidic followed by a slight sweetness in the finish. Beer a bit watery and out of balance. Could use a bit more in the way of body and sweet to balance out the huge tart beginning that really catches you off guard.


 TURDFERGUSON (1588), Carrboro, North Carolina, USA
2.2 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
5/103/54/102/58/20
Aug 16, 2009  
Bottle. Golden with a thin white lace. Nose of pomegranate juice, wheat, butterscotch. Flavor is slightly bitter, some sweetness from the fruit, mounds of butter. Worse than expected.



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