Phoenix Ale Watermelon Ale

Brewed by Phoenix Ale Brewery
Style: Fruit Beer
Phoenix, Arizona USA

Serve in Flute, Shaker

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12oz bottle. Rating #12. Light golden color with a white head. Light fruit and watermelon aroma, tropical. Flavor was mild watermelon and wheat with more of a tropical flavor layered in there with the watermelon. (2712)

12oz bottle pours clear gold with semi loose off white head. The aroma offers up vague melon notes and a bit of bubble gum sort of wheat notes. The taste hits with fruit and modest carbonation enhanced tartness and a note that must be water melon. Behind these flavors is a sense of wheat and esters. Hmm. Not working for me.

Hazy pale golden color out of the bottle with a fizzy white head. Watermelon Jolly Rancher nose. Flavors of watermelon and green apple, with lots of sugary sweetness, much like a Jolly Rancher candy. Some citrus bitterness under the sugar sweetness, which gets more bitter and a little chemical in the finish. Odd beer.

Bottle; poured a dirty, dark gold color with an average sized off white head. Aroma of wheat, candy, and fruit. Flavor was all over the place, making a rather poor final product. Fairly strange, with a decent sweetness that is sadly the star of the show. Better in theory.

12 ounce bottle. There’s a fresh, slightly jolly-rancher smell along with some malts in the aroma. It’s a blush orange color, and there wasn’t much more than a film of foam at the top. The taste was subtle watermelon, and it mixed really well with the traditional malted ale flavors. It was distinctively and gracefully summer-fruit refreshing, and still not so overpowering that it fell into artificial flavoring territory (I’m looking at you, Leinie Summer Shandy).

Bottle from Total Wine Arrowhead. Pours a hazy golden color with a massive, massive white head. Aroma has some wheat, cardboard, melon hard candy. Taste is sweet with more melon. I find this to be too sweet, as if some melon flavored simple syrup was used to flavor the beer.

Bottle, shared with my wife. Cloudy pale yellow with a very short lived head. Aroma is wheat and gumball candy. Flavours a little less artificial, but still suggests powdery candy instead of real fruit. Low sweetness saves this from being a drain pour, but it still isn’t one I’d reach for twice.

Pours a Piss yellow with More head than Tera Patrick. aroma is diacetyl wolf pussy rotten watermelon rinds and yeast infection. Flavor is rotten watermelon rind carcass of a dead cat and anal lube. Phoenix brewing is awful.

Thanks to IBrew2or3 for this one. Cheers, Dave! Pours a hazy yellow with a HUGE off-white head. Fizzy as all hell. Nose is watermelon rind, some bread, and some some light fruit. Flavor is watermelon extract and slight bread and sugar. Medium in body for a wheat. Mildly fruity and some watermelon.

11/25/11 phx ale co. watermelon wheat on tap @ pap Hazy yellow,no head. A is wheat and candy...maybe watermelon candy. but more like a generic melon thing. F is the same. Candy sweetness on the finish. Kinda tastes like vomit???...bile and weird bitterness which doesn’t belong in here. Chalky and thin.