Smuttynose Wheat Wine

Big alcohol smell on the pour. This beer pours a dark amber clear color with a smallish white head that really stick around a looooong time after you take a few sips. I smelled a mix of wheat, hops, malt, and fruit on the nose...with some hefty alcohol. This beer has a tremendous mouthfeel and really sticks on your tongue. I really liked the taste of this beer, just fruity enough, with a great balance and a tremendous finish. This is every bit a BIG BEER from Smutty.

Bottle (650ml). Cloudy/hazy orange with a solid tight creamy off-white head. Alcohol and oily grain is prominent in the aroma, funky yeast and a bit of apricot - very soft, like a barleywine but way more grain. Taste follows right on, more tart fruit and an almost kerosene character to the booze that strengthens in the grainy finish. Thick and chewy, mild carbonation, a bitter linger - really nice! I’d love to age a few.

Pours a copper color with a little head. Aroma of caramel, earthy hops spice and fruit notes. Flavor was sweet toffee and some mild spice with a smooth ending that is very easy to drink

22oz bomber; this wheat-barley wine is an interesting concept, so I’m intrigued to try it. It pours a bronze-orange color with just a thin fuzzy top and moderate carbonation. The aroma is definitely barley-winish with a big syrupy sweetness to it, but there’s also an interesting orange twist to it. The first taste is perplexing ot me ... it’s overtly tangy, almost like a dry blood orange, that makes you shiver and squint. The strong alcoholic burn intermingles with this very earthy, dry citric bite in an odd way. I don’t think I’m diggin’ the combination. The more I sip at it and it warms, the flavor combinations start to give it a medicinal bite. (#2756, 3/18/2007)

caramel, nuts, toast, roasty, dough, smoke, woody, red, cloudy, medium sweetness, lightly bitter, lightly sour, medium body, slick feel, flat,

FIRST TRIAL: On tap at the Landmark 1850. This was an unobjectionable brew. I’ve only had a few other wheat wines, but this was the closest to many of the barleywine’s I’ve had, however, it was quite a bit less extreme in terms of flavor. The beer was a nice copper with a quickly diminishing head. There was very little aroma though (similar to the flavor). There was a slightly sweet/fruity malt taste, and a little bit of hop bitterness, with a reasonably smooth finish that didn’t taste very alcohol-y (maybe the wheat?). This beer wasn’t bad, there just didn’t seem to be that much to it. I enjoy a few Smuttynose products, but don’t know if I’d order this one again.

Thanks to tronraner for sharing this bottle with us at the Tennessee Spring(ish) Tasting! Poured amber in color with an off-white head that leaves light lacing. The aroma found cinnamon spices, curry and light smoke. Unlike Suttree’s notes, mine clearly reads gunpowder for the aroma. Who knows? It was late. Maybe there was a shooting out front that we missed. The flavor had citrus with hints of malts and smoke. Full body and a creamy texture. Different and not what I was expecting but decent!

Tasting notes from the Tennessee Spring(ish) Tasting in Knoxville, TN on 3/10/2007: Bottle shared by tronraner. Smuttynose Wheat Wine pours a hazy, bright copper color. Interesting aroma with curry (believe it or not) being the most noticeable attribute. The flavor was lightly fruity (white raisons?) with some wheat and yeasty undertones. This beer was balanced between a mild bitterness and mild sweetness. There was some warming alchol in the finish, but other than that the 11% ABV was pretty well disguised. Very interesting and different due to the definite curry presence.