Sierra Blanca Alien Wheat

Brewed by Sierra Blanca Brewing Co
Style: Belgian White (Witbier)
Moriarty, New Mexico USA

Serve in Tumbler, Weizen

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Bottle at a Halloween party. This pours clear golden brown and is well carbonated. An aroma of wheat with light fruit. Plenty of wheat flavors. Nothing like clove is tasted. Some orange, though. Light yeast. Decent.

Clear golden color with white sheen. Toasted wheat bread, grass, mild sulfer aromas. medium body with average co2. Cheap wheat bread, cracker malt flavors with some dry spices--decent.

Orange juice with some wheat for garnish. Carbonated, of course. Prickly on the tongue. Light aftertaste that’s like seltzer. Not very good. But, ... This damn heat in the valley -- currently in Phoenix, demands this drink.

Green Alien labeled 12oz bottle pours out sort of clear matte gold with thin bright white head. The aroma has the label stated orange peel and coriander coming through in a muted blunted sort of fashion and really little else. The taste is similar with carbonation enhanced orange notes and faint coriander spices slowly giving way to wafer thin layers of wheat and grainy malts. I think there might be hints of banana and a bit of lemon like acidity in there somewhere too.

Hazy tan with a malty, spicy aroma. Malty on the plate with light spice and what seems like artificial citrus. OK, but really more of an Am Wheat than a witbier.

Bottle from Pecos Wine in Roswell. Is ugly, very little head and a sickly pallid yellow. Aroma has no wheat beer character either in yeast or malt character. White pepper and white bread. Lemon spritz. Light palate with lemon curd and lemon soda on palate. Not unpleasant and is refreshing but a really muddled beer.

[Bottle] Pours a cloudy light golden color with about an inch of white head. Nose is of dusty wheat malt and light yeast, but not much else. Cereal grain taste includes light amounts of lemon zest, coriander and mild oxidation. Average mouthfeel and palate. Sweet and malty finish. Better than their Amber, but not by a whole lot.

Bottle from local store. Pours yellow with a slight cloudiness. Not much on the nose. Thin mouthfeel. Not getting much orange peel or coriander. Not very impactful.

On tap at the ABQ brewpub. Pours a hazy yellow with a white head. Aroma of lots of bready malt. Flavor of bready, crackery malt with a hint of fruits. Smooth palate. A little bland, I was expecting more here but only the malt character really came through. 7/4/7/4/13 [3.5/5]

Bottle; poured a ruddy gold color with a smallish white head. Aroma of wheat, orange, lemon and spice. Flavor was milder and not as good as the aroma. Palate was a bit harsh. Just another wit...