Smuttynose Wheat Wine

22oz bottle pours ruby and garnet color with a creamy tannish head. Aroma of alcohol, sugars, apricots and bubble gum. A slight wheat aroma. Soft body with a slight grassy bitterness at the beginning. Alcohol is present at the end of the swallow. Only a slight bit of sweetness. Bit of breadiness. Pretty easy drinking for a 11% abv. Nice wheat wine.

Courtesy of After4ever, thanks Tom! It is hazy red-orange with a small, creamy head. The aroma is smooth with notes of fruit, tangerine, grapefruit, flower and caramel. The mouthfeel is rather oily. The flavour has a soft sweetness and notes of tangerine, malt, caramel, grapefruit and the finish has a light, slightly dry bitterness with a touch of spice.

Bonus bottle from JoeMcPhee. Thanks Joe! Shared with my friend Tete. Had after drain pouring another bad Angel’s Share. Dark amber color. Lots of melanoidins. Hint of oxidation. Sweetish. Pretty decent and another >10% rating for me. ;P

On tap at the Peekskill Brewery. Pours a clear brown amber with a light tanned head. Aroma is full of fruity alcohol esters and stone fruits. Flavor moves into toast and caramel. Sweet and medium bodied. Finishes light, and slightly puzzling.

Draught at Rustico. Slightly hazy amber with a lasting creamy head. Sweet toasted malt, caramel, light fruity esters, and mild spicy hops in the aroma. The flavor has some sweet caramel, vanilla, and toffee, finishing with a lightly tangy and fruity wheat character. Alcohol creeps in there as well, eventually becoming a bit too present. Full, creamy body with low carbonation. Almost has great balance, if not for the excess of alcohol. If age could mellow that, I would love to give this another shot.

Bottle. Sweet aroma, with alcohol. Hazy ruby body, small head. Alcohol permeates the flavor, quite distractingly. Otherwise, moderately sweet, caramel and fruity. The flavor is nice, but overall the impression is much too heavy on the alcohol.

22oz Bomber Half Time Beverage 2006 Bottling I believe this is my first review of the style. Smuttynose Wheat Wine fills my glass a glowing although slightly hazed ruby. There are a few streaks of carbonation bubbles crawling up the side of the glass to the surface. The head didn’t want to come up at first but grew to a finger+ as it filled the glass. The clean white head fell to a skim coat that left quality sheet lacing down the sides of the tulip. The nose is full of sweet orange rind. Alcohol shows a solid presence in the nose and works to accentuate the citric fruitiness. Each swirl of the glass makes this beer jump alive. Bubblegum, green apples and mild cloves bounce all over the place. When the head fades back away it takes the aroma with it and reverts right back to orange peel, alcohol, caramel, wheat, and a touch of cinnamon that is actually very unique. When the glass is swirled the aroma really pops, when the glass sits the aroma fades but what’s there is still impressive and quite different. The flavor of this wheat wine is exactly as the aroma suggested. A smooth entry brings a wash of caramel drizzled orange peel with a drying, well represented alcoholic touch. When this beer is agitated on the way in green apples skins shoot to the front to combine with the orange peel and actually take it over. Bubblegum sweetness comes through mid palate along with mild clove spiciness. This beer has been aging for two years now and the alcohol heat is still sky high. I can’t even imagine this beer freshly bottled, the alcohol presence would be unwanted and unbearable. The big alcohol drops the score a half point. I actually really like the mouthfeel of this big beer. The body isn’t as sticky as I anticipated but leaves a touch of stick along the cheeks before completely drying out. The longer I sit after each sip the more this beer dries out. There seems to be a solid hop presence even after sitting for all this time that end up leaving a nice bitterness behind. The drinkability is hampered by the big alcohol presence and abundance of flavor. While a glass in a sitting is a nice sipper that is about all I can handle at a time. Smuttynose does make a good wheat wine. I’m surprised to read the label and see this is brewed using 53% wheat. That’s a big number. The flavors come together really well and if the alcohol calmed down a little more this would be an excellent beer. I’d love to give it another shot. Serving type: bottle 7/12/08

hazy copper hued, will pour a respectable French vanilla head if poured correctly. fuity and spicy without clove or banana. More like a saison with some hops. Very soft mouthfeel. I don’t find it boozy at all.