3.7 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 5/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 14/20
Pours a hazy amber-gold american wheat color with a thin initial head with great retention, and very nice spotty lacing in a pint glass of mine that normally doesn’t allow for much of a head. The aroma was lots of berries even at 40F, thought this was gonna be fruity sickly. Flavor, though, was nice, certainly a little syrupy thick, but the lightly tart wheat character was present and kept this from running away too sweet. As it warmed, it got a little stronger, but it still was pretty drinkable and enjoyable. Obviously, if you don’t like fruit beers, this isn’t gonna be your thing, but within style, decent. Nice job, Ken Smith.
3.6 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 13/20
Draft, at Sam Adams Brewery tour 1/5/07. Tour guide informed us that this beer was the winner of the employee portion of 2006’s Longshot homebrew contest.
The beer poured cloudy yellow, with an off white head. Aroma was primarily fruit (I’m assuming boysenberry - I’ve only had this berry in jelly; never actually saw the fruit) and a bit of wheat. Medium bodied. Flavor was fruity and a bit tart. Very refreshing; I’m looking forward to samling this beer again when it comes out in bottles.
2.5 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 2/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 10/20
[Draught pint @ Bukowski’s Back Bay] Pale yellow color, with a light ring of foam around the edge. Sort of musty, wheat aroma- not much evidence of fruit at all. Flavors are sweet wheat at first, then becoming tart, with some serious chemical fruit flavors. I’m not really sure what a boysenberry tastes like fresh, but in this beer the only flavors the fruit provide seem artificial. Still, an interesting beer, but not really my thing.
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