Rock Art Vermont Maple Wheat Ale

Brewed by Rock Art Brewery
Style: Wheat Ale
Morrisville, Vermont USA

Serve in Shaker, Weizen

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2013-04-27. Crisp amber body,small white head and light lace. Sweet maple aroma,mild sweet pale malt notes. Flavour has light maple notes but it is over shadowed by mild bitterness and a tangy quality that I don’t care for. Smooth average bodied palate. On tap at Reservoir, Waterbury.

Dégustée en fût chez "The Reservoir Restaurant & Taproom" à Waterbury, VT. De couleur ambrée et claire. Nez de sirop d’érable, léger de blé, de pain et de houblon herbeux avec des traces de sucre brun. Moyenne-mince en bouche avec un pétillement moyen ainsi qu’une texture aux notes huileuses. Goût sucré de sirop d’érable avec des notes de noix lors de l’entrée en bouche auquel se rajoute un moyen goût de blé avec des notes de pain et quelques traces de sucre brun puis en finale l’on retrouve une légère amertume de houblon herbeux. Post-goût moyen, composé d’un léger goût de sirop d’érable avec des notes de houblon herbeux. (1er mai 2013)

On tap at Farmhouse. Pours a clear bronze with minimal beige head. Impressive amount of maple syrup flavor. It’s not overwhelming, just full. Thin, crisp body. Very nice!

Bottle. Pours a amber color with copper highlited and a small white head. Nose is sweet and mapley. Palate is medium with a decent bite followed by a sticky malt touch. Flavors of grassy hops with sticky sap notes and a rich burnt maple flavor. ---Rated via Beer Buddy for iPhone

22oz bomber from EZ Liquors. Poured an ugly slightly muddy orange/amber with a small quick fading mostly white bubbly head. Aroma is muddy maple syrup, big empasis on the mud, wet leaves, stale dough. The body is watery with an average duration on the aftertaste with lively carbonation. Flavor is much like the aroma, bad earth notes, slight bad syrup sweetness, weird dough and earth combo. Overall this is still bad.

Bouteille de 22 oz achetée chez Beverage Warehouse (Winooski, VT). Arôme: Légère odeur de blé avec une pointe fruitée. Apparence: La couleur est noire cuivrée. Présence d’un mince col mousseux et d’une fine dentelle sur le verre. Saveur: Léger goût d’érable avec une pointe de blé. Durée moyenne de l’arrière goût. Palette: Le corps est moyen avec une texture légèrement aqueuse. Moyenne effervescence en bouche. Légère présence d’érable en arrière goût. (Rating #4311)

Glowing amber coloured body with a copper tint and a very odd, soda-like carbonation that keeps buzzing at the top, but without a head at all, very interesting. Aroma of maple, soda, sugar and a little cherry scent. Medium-bodied; Very mild, maple flavour at first with some bread, yeast, sugars and not much else, perhaps a touch of malt. Aftertaste shows a very mild characteristic with perhaps some maple, but not much of anything, really. Overall, a pretty interesting beer with hardly any flavour, no complexity and no malt depth at all. Not really worth trying, especially for the price. I sampled this 65 cL bottle purchased from Liqour Outlet in Boonton, New Jersey on 28-May-2012 for US$5.55 sampled at home in Washington on 12-October-2012.

Bomber from Whole Foods Market Paramus. Pours a hazy light brown color with a fizzy off-white head that fades almost instantly. Aroma of wheat, apples, faint nuts and maple. The taste is wheat, nuts, maple, some toastiness and a mild hop finish. Medium bodied, high carbonation. A little weak, but okay.

Pours clear copper with weak loose somewhat white head of foam. The aroma has some wheat notes and a sweet malt enhanced floral sensation. The taste is nice and wheat like and almost pulling up a bitter note but that’s filled in with sweetness that tastes a little like maple syrup. This has a nice balance where I get a touch of sweet fruity esters joining the other notes into the finish.

22 oz bottle. Pours a light brown/amber with a thin off white head. Aroma is slightly hoppy with a barely there maple sweetness. More maple in the flavor than in the aroma. Really is quite sweet, but not cloying. Thin in the mouth with a sweet finish. Not bad at all, but woudn’t want more than one.