Shorts Beach Wheat

Brewed by Shorts Brewing Co.
Style: German Hefeweizen
Bellaire, Michigan USA

Serve in Weizen

A - Pours a clear golden-orange with a touch of haze and a thin finger of light white head. The head fades fairly quickly with little lace and lots of visible carbonation. S - Aroma is a mix of lemon peel, clove, banana, and wheat. More pungent than expected. T - Starts off with some slightly acidic lemon with some wheat in the background. Through the middle, the sharpness of the lemon starts to fade with some clove and banana flavors form the yeast coming through. The finish is a mix of yeast flavors with the lemon peel flavor lingering. M - Medium-light bodied with moderate carbonation. Feels smooth and very refreshing. D - Extremely drinkable. The balance of flavors is really nice throughout. I especially like the bit of kick that starts off the beer. Light in body, but full of flavor.

Date: January 08, 2011
Mode: Draft
Source: The Porter, Atlanta
Appearance: cloudy orange, creamy off white head
Aroma: sweet spicy aroma, lots of clove, light herbal character
Flavor: lightly sweet malt flavor, heavy on the spicy clove, touch of banana sweetness comes in to balance the spicyness
Aroma: 6/10; Appearance: 6/10; Flavor: 6/10; Palate: 6/10; Overall: 11/20
Rating: 2.9/5.0
Drinkability: 6/10
Score: ** /4

Bottled. Poured hazy medium golden with a short cap of white head. The aroma picked up sour lemon and wheaty notes over a hing of sweeter banana.. a tad more sour than I look for in my hefes. The flavor was sour and refreshing.. lemon and wheat worked the hardest, with complementary cloves more prevalent on the edges and through the finish.. dried bananas and a hint of vanilla at the core.. long, memorable finish. Light-bodied, dry, and sour on the palate.. I enjoyed it, but not for the reasons I usually like the style.

It pours beautiful bright wheat orange thick, but not cloudy with a medium decent white head. The aroma is sweet and bready, clear and pleasant in the nose. The flavor starts out sweet like a wheat but then a pleasant tartness comes in, almost like a light Berliner Weisse. I don’t know if this was in basement since I got it on a BIF, but if it was aged it help this to be one of the most quenching and delicious tangy tart wheat beers I have ever had.

12oz Bottle. Thanks Sean! Aroma gives a distinct and clear Hefe clove note. Flavors focus on tanginess, I’m guessing from the wheat, but it’s strong enough to suggest sour mashing. The Hefe profile definitely shys away from the banana characters, towards the spicy, slippery clove notes. Something is missing from this beer and it feels like chewable body. I’m pretty sure that most American brewers forgo decoction mashing, but the result is a more insipid body. That said, there’s lots of flavor and plenty to sink into for something with 4.5%.

Bottle, I poured after roushing up the bottle, this beer had a hazy orange-gold pour, and made a three finger head of white bubbles that deflated quickly to a thin cover and ring, I saw very few bubbles in the glass, so, it looks like the beer is under carbonated, the beer left nice spots of lacing but it appears the carbonation was low, I found a thin cover of light brown sediment in the bottle, the aromas were wheat and grain, with banana, orange and some honey sweetness, mild clove with a faint lemon fruit citrus, this beer had flavors of orange, wheat, light bread, with citrus, the finish was dry with a citrus touch, the mouth feel was kind of flat, little carbonation in this beer, and it was drying on the palate, the presentation of this beer is weak (from low carbonation), the aroma and flavor were so-so, the carbonation was weak and gave a weak mouth feel, not like a Hefeweizen should be, a disappointment.

12oz Bottle Hazy straw color no head just a light layer of white. Nice aroma of clove and yeast. Body is a bit watery with low carbonation. Some citrus and yeast in the flavor with light hop bitterness in the finish. Overall a bit average.

Bottle thanks to FlandersNed. Pours cloudy golden yellow. Nose/taste of lemon, wheat, banana and clove. Light to medium body. Standard.