Shock Top Wheat I.P.A.

Brewed by Anheuser-Busch InBev
Style: India Pale Ale (IPA)
St. Louis, Missouri USA

Serve in Shaker, Tulip

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Very light, very little hop flavor. This should not be considered an IPA by any means. Pathetic head with nonexistent lacing. Other than that, really not a bad beer. Nice color, easy drinking smooth taste. If they could add some more carbonation and call this just a wheat ale instead of a wheat IPA I would have much more respect for this brew.

NIce not so hoppy as I had guessed. NIce aroma and unfiltered alike. Fine aftertaste and refreshing was too.

Hazy. Just like other Shock Tops strong orange and wheat with some hoppy bitterness added. More wheat beer than IPA. Easy to drink. Would pick over any other Bud product any time. Pretty Good.

Bottles from Capone’s and Wegman’s Collegeville. Pours hazy dark straw toward orange with 1-finger off-white head. Nose is wheaty pale malt, mild hops, some apricotty fruit. Tastes pale malty, mildly fruity, with some finishing sweetness. OK, not great.

Clear look. Bottle. The color is amber and has a small off white head. The smell is hops, grass, wheat, caramel, and fruit. The taste is hops, pine, fruit, sweet, caramel.

Hazy amber with a small white head. Aroma is caramel, wheat, soap, citrus. Taste is wheat, floral, light soap bar, yeast.

Bottle. Pours a clear bright orangish gold body with a small frothy white head that left a bit of sticky lacing. The nose is pretty bland and doesn’t say IPA to me in the slightest. Smells like the regular Shock Top to me, some orange and coriander, but with just a light touch of floral hops. The flavor is a bit more hoppy, though it doesn’t rise to the level of IPA at all. Still mostly orange and coriander, but a little more toned down than the original. Finishes with a light bitterness. Mouthfeel is fairly light bodied, though unlike the regular version, it’s lacking in texture from the omission of the yeast. Moderate fizzy prickly carbonation. Still fairly easy to finish a bottle of, but not something I’d get more than a single of, this is in no way an IPA.

Out of a bottle. Orange/cloudy in color with creamy color head. Dropped an orange wedge in it, better orange flavor... go figure.

April 24th, 2012 - Shock Top’s formula isn’t half bad. It’s an easy drinking beer with a refreshing taste and palate and some of that citrus loveliness built into the bottle. It’s almost like the 2-in-1 shampoo and conditioner formula of the beer market, and you can get it practically everywhere greasy food is served It is a solid choice for a beer snob who can’t return to a life building aluminum can pyramids about of pale lagers. But fiddling with this winning formula has not paid off as handsomely as making it in the first place. The Shock Top Wheat IPA feels like a forced attempt to pander to hop heads who might not be buying the original product because it isn’t acerbic enough. The smell is fairly muted with a fresh Mexican tortilla and cheese smell (and no, I did not rate this at a Mexican restaurant or anywhere near Mexican cuisine) and the flavor is nothing more complex than Shock Top with a bit of a hops profile layered on top like a clumsy fondant layer. It’s also less refreshing than the original Shock Top, and what hop profile there is remains unidimensional and boring. Better to order the regular Shock Top, I think, than dabble with this experiment.

Orange pour with white head. Aroma is mostly just floral hops, Wheaty flatness some perfumy flavor. Thin and watery just not much. I would drink this beer but not often.