Sierra Nevada Wheat

Formerly brewed at Sierra Nevada Brewing Company
Style: Wheat Ale
Chico, California USA

Serve in Shaker, Weizen

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Refrigerated bottle poured into a glass. Pours a dark hazy golden color. The taste is wet wheat that is a little bitter. Apparently Sierra Nevada has replaced this beer with Kellerweis, which is an excellent choice.

Probably my least favorite of all wheat beers. Not much of a Hefe flavor and overall, kind of a bland beer. Of course, the first wheat beer I ever tried was Erdinger, so it’s a tough act to follow.

Light but good nevertheless; the wheat/yeast is very well balanced against the hops, which I think are Cascade but aren’t too aggressive. Very refreshing, and excellent if you’re not expecting a hefeweizen.

Yellow-orange with a decent head. Fruity and spicy, but there are not many signs of the wheat in there. It is simply too bitter. Instead orange and mandarin dominates as citric notes.

Date: November 09, 2009
Mode: Bottle
Source: Trade
Appearance: cloudy yellow, wispy white head
Aroma: light wheat aroma
Flavor: light wheat flavor, light bitterness
Aroma: 5/10; Appearance: 6/10; Flavor: 5/10; Palate: 6/10; Overall: 10/20
Rating: 2.6/5.0
Drinkability: 7/10
Score: ** /4

copper with a slight hazy, small white head. standard wheat citrus taste. this would be a good lawn mower, could use more yeast per bottle

Bottle (in NZ). My type of wheat beer - dry, perhaps a little grainy, not much sweetness. Hints of citrus is what is an otherwise wheaty flavour.

Aromas of malt, with a dry dusty hint. Flavor is mostly malt, with a slight bit of fruit flavor.

12oz bottle. Golden yellow body with medium size white head. Flavour is malt, wheat, citrus and hops.

bottle, pours light gold, tall white head. Aroma is wheaty with sour peach and cascade hops. Nice solid bitter hop and wheat body with some sour apple and spicing in the finish. Nice.