Smuttynose Wheat Wine

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

2008 Bottle - Thanks phhd! - Pours a beautiful amber with a small off white head...aroma is fruity, pineapple, apple, mango, yeasty and grainy, bright, caramel malty...flavour is similarly fruity, green apple, cereal grains, sweet alcohol kick...I freakin loved this!

09 from gravity keg at BT. Aroma of tons of tropical fruit (grapefruit, orange, mango, tangerine) with big, sweet wheat and sourdough bread malt. Flavor was a bit alcoholic and sweet but still retained some of the tropical fruit notes as well as a distinct nougat character. Tasty stuff.

Reddish amber pour wtih a small head. Lots of sweet honey, malt and sugar on the nose. Some honey flavors combine with a good dose of hops to keep this from being to cloying. Not quite sure where the wheat flavors are, but I did enjoy drinking this. One glass was perfect however. The whole bomber would be really hard to finish with one person.

Bottle, thank you Daknole. Dark amber color with small hazy head. Chewy aroma makes me roll my eyes...but actually it’s not as sticky or chewy as it lets on. The flavors are much nicer than the aromas. Flavors are big in malt and hop categories with not much wheat character but has a nice big hoppy kick.

For a wheat, I am impressed. This is so thick you can chew it down, and it dark as hell. But it tastes like cough syrup that was fucked by a hobo. Only real flavor is alcohol. Thank you Daknole.

22 oz. bottle - thanks for maxxdaddy for the trade; 2008 bottling i believe; pours dark amber, clear and basically flat as trace white head disappears instantly; sweet aromas of fruit juice, lemons and wheat; quite dry and sharp on first sip; super thin body; a little like drinking stale fruit juice; overall i find wheat wines kind of strange and not my thing

Draft at capones. Pours an amber body with an off white head. Sweet chewy fruits, apples, citrus, and dried fruits. Moderate etoh warming and comes across more like alcohol infused fruits. Moderate hop character of grapefruit. Good brew.

Smuttynose Wheat Wine is a cloudy red-orange-brown beer with a thin off-white head. It has a twangy, sweet aroma that seems a little resiny. In the mouth, it’s fluffy and full bodied. It’s quite smooth. It’s well balanced-- a little bitter and a little sweet. I like this. It seems like a good barleywine. I’d never suspect that there was so much wheat in it.