Smuttynose Wheat Wine

Brewed by Smuttynose Brewing Company
Style: Barley Wine
Portsmouth, New Hampshire USA

Pours a fading ring of beige head with a copper-ruby body. Aromas of caramel, butter, dark bread. Flavors of caramel, little resin, wheat bread. Finish has some bitterness. This puppy’s full of alcohol, sticky icky, and powerfully hopped.

Draft at Ebenezer’s. Pours an orangey-amber with creamy head. Super fruity hops in the nose, much like Hvedegoop. Booze comes through, resin and mango, caramel. On taste, big bitterness holds up the immensely sweet and fruity beer. Defintely thick mouthfeel and creamy. Finishes surprisingly dry. Very warm and very good. Fantastic.

smelled like i just mowed my lawn, only a little sweeter. color was a light amber, nice and cloudy. flavors were very sweet, bubble gum, apple, and banana. smooth and syurpy mouthfeel where the hops just sneak in a little bit at the very end.

Very boozy and aromatic, some bananas, some sour, some brandy in the nose. Very thick and syrupy rich palate. If there is wheat in here, I’d never realize it. Other than maybe the yeast causing the sour and banana components in the nose. Otherwise pretty much like a decent barley wine. Nice.

Dark copper with a small off-white head. Fruity aroma, with banana, and a vineous alcoholic port note. Really full bodied, sweet malt flavour with some alcohol and a hint of roasted malt.

Word to Secret Santa 09 for sending this bad boy. 07 bottle. Pours a dirty caramel brown with burnt orange highlights and and a small off-white head. Aroma is lovely, with a lot of pie crust, white chocolate, brown sugar, marzipan, caramel, chocolate covered oranges, toast, and a noticable heat. The taste is not quite as dessert-y, with flavors of caramel, toast, wood, bourbon, vanilla, brown sugar, and lightly burnt pie crust. Finishes like a burnt pastry, with a lot of toast, earth, mild citrus, and hints of sweetness still remaining. Big body, straddles the line between slick and creamy very effectively. A bit hot. Perhaps this is a sweeter beer when fresh...as it is, the aroma just screams dessert, while the taste merely whispers it. Nonetheless, this is still fabulous. Glad to try it!

On tap at Novare Res. Cloudy amber with head. Toasty caramel yeasty wheat tang aroma with slight alcohol. Toasted caramel strong rich fruity and mildly bitter tangy finish. Rich and nice texture. Very good.

Deep reddish brown pour. Looks like a darker brown from the top, more reddish down below. Very nice color. Head is average, nothing much to it. A sharp, biting scent. There’s some sweet notes to it. Maybe some vanilla? Taste reminds me a lot of the Southern Tier Cuvee Series 2 that I had recently. Sweet but not too sweet. It’s not a bad flavor at all, but it’s not very complex. Sweet, a slight bitter aftertaste. Meh. Mouthfeel isn’t bad. Average. Not sure if this beer is for me. It definitely has its qualities, but I don’t see myself buying it again anytime soon. I can see how some people would love it, but it’s not my style, I don’t think. Not a bad offering from Smuttynose, but nothing exceptional.