Wild Heaven Let There Be Light

Wild Heaven Craft Beers
Brewed at Thomas Creek Brewery
Style: Amber Ale
Decatur, Georgia USA

Serve in English pint, Shaker

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Date: February 12, 2012
Mode: Draft
Source: Taco Mac, Kennesaw
Appearance: clear copper, frothy off white head, sheets of lace
Aroma: light sweet caramel aroma
Body: light body
Flavor: sweet malt flavor, bready, plenty of hops, floral and citrus, robust and lingering bitterness
Overall: this beer is not light on flavor
Aroma: 6/10; Appearance: 7/10; Flavor: 7/10; Palate: 5/10; Overall: 13/20
Rating: 3.3/5.0
Drinkability: 8/10
Score: **+ /4

Draft. Clear golden color, fluffy white head. Aroma of fresh grass. Taste is grass and pine. Decent.

On tap at Trappeze Pub. Pours a clear gold with an amber hue and a near white head that lasts throughout the beer and laces. Aroma has a good amount of grass with light grains and a slight dryness. Flavor has grassy throughout with a grain backbone and a hint of light fruit.

Draft at World of Beer in Savannah. Pours a clear, bright gold with a small white head. Surprising hops on the aroma, with some grass, lemon, wheat, and orange peel. Flavor of wheat, crackers, straw, grass, and citrus. Light body, mellow carbonation, malty and wheaty mouthfeel. Nice sessionable beer.

16 ounce pint - $5.50 at Taco Mac in Kennesaw, Georgia.

Appearance: Clear, coppery body with a slim, loose, white head. A few smudges of lacing on the descent.

Smell: Mild bread lightly toasted, faintly grainy and with a razor thin edge of implied sweetness atop hops yielding low hints of rough citrus rind and spice.

Taste: A light infusion of lightly bready pale malts with a hint of grain and sweetness. Spicy, pithy hops with a bitterness accentuated by the crisp carbonation. Dry and bubbly at the tail end with a bit of lingering breadiness.

Mouthfeel: Medium-light body. Medium-plus carbonation.

Overall: "Who says lighter beers have to be boring?" Well, nobody, I guess, Wild Heaven, but that’s honestly what the vast majority of light beer drinkers want. The ideals of light, cheap beer are deeply ingrained in the population, so changing the average beer drinker’s perception will be a steep, uphill battle. Who knows, maybe they’ll come around. Probably not, but you never know! Me, I’m just happy to have a few low-alcohol brews available.

Tap @ TacoMac, Cumming. Amber color, white head, sexy lace. Floral aroma, noticeable citrus. Flavor is of multigrain, citrus hops. Finishes with a tropical fruit and floral hop. Very thin, light bodied, a nice after work beer.

growler. clear orange pour with small, bubbly, white head. biscuits, dough, and zesty limey tropical hop notes. leaves an interesting earthy, grassy note in the finish behind a lime, grape and doughy malt flavor. light body and bubbly.

Pours a clear dark golden with a fairly thick and fine-bubbled pale golden tan head. Aroma has malty, wheaty and fruity tones with a woody hint of hops. Flavor has a malty core plus fruity and wheaty/yeasty notes and a woody hop tone that suggests it was dry-hopped. Texture has good body and fizz. This is definitely a good beer for sipping on a hot day while relaxing on the porch.

On tap at le brickstore. Pots a deep gold color. Little caramel aroma. The finish is where it’s at here though with a nice herbal taste and spicey bite. A really nice drink and with more presence than some porters I’ve had.

Pours hazy gold with soapy whir head. Rye and citrus peel on the nose-interesting. Palate is medium bodied with a definite grapefruit rind flavor and still that note of rye. I don’t dislike it...it’s interesting... I do’t know if I love it though.