Yukon Cranberry Wheat Ale

Brewed by Yukon Brewing Company
Style: Fruit Beer
Whitehorse, Canada

Bottle. 4.7% 3rd in the Yukon taster pack. Pours a cloudy orange with a decent white bubbly head that fades quickly to a ring. Has that wit/hefe kinda feel going in. Aroma is sweet (quite yeasty, cranberries). Taste is grainy, with a hint of cranberry on the tongue as well as a yeasty, creamy mouthfeel. Finish is quite crisp, and extremely refreshing. Even drinking this out of season, I’m impressed. Will bring in a sixer of these for the patio season next year.

Wheaty good! Cloudy dull orange with a small white cap on the pour and no cap to speak of a couple of minutes later. Zero lacing. Aroma is faint, but the wheat and sour berries are mixed together equally. A chemically odour hides in the background. It’s nice to get a beer with aroma that is soft once and awhile. Taste is pretty good, except I’m not sold on the sourness - not that it’s bad. Soft wheat and yeast start you off while the sour cranberries finish. Good or bad, depending on your sour tolerance. I like it cause it’s different, but I don’t love it. It’s medium bodied with a very long sour yeasty finish. Fairly smooth with ample carbonation. Very tart and dry aftertaste. There is a collection of yeast that has gathered at the bottom of my glass that has a one way ticket to my stomach. Lots of sour - man, this aftertaste just doesn’t go away!

This brew poured a cloudy honey brown with zero head, barley any bubbles floated on top, this stuff resembles Metamucil perfectly. A pleasant malty banana aroma that is some what fruity is admitted from the beer, I enjoy the smell but the only problem is its very weak and hard to detect. Lots of bready malts can be tasted combined with a dry sourness that probably comes from the cranberries. This brew is medium bodied with good carbonation, and leaves a bready after taste. This beer is highly drinkable and refreshing but is also highly forgettable and boring.

Was hoping good things for this one but was kinda let down.nose has a little sweetness and berry, but not alot. flavor is uhhwheat and bitterness, not real cranberry. nice that they r trying different things but the other beers by this brewery i have tried were much better.

Sample, draught, drank on site on August 2 2008; eye: copper, no effervescence, clear, white head that disappears completely; nose: fruity, light acidity, malt; mouth: thin, fruity (cranberry), light caramel, somewhat confusing fruity finale, grainy, light acidity, medium body, average carbonation; overall: ok FRANÇAIS Échantillon, en fût, bue sur place le 2 août 2008; oeil : cuivrée, pas d’effervescence, claire, mousse blanche qui disparaît complètement; nez : fruitée, légère acidité, léger fruité, malt; bouche : mince, fruitée (canneberge), léger caramel, finale fruitée un peu déroutante, granuleuse, légère acidité, corps moyen, carbonatation moyenne; en résumé : ok

Weird smell... not like a top fruit beer or a lambic, but rather more like an ’off-smell’. Cloudy... tastes like wheat beer, but with something else in it... This one is OK.

Pours a light orange with a small head. Light wheat aroma, wouldn’t notice the cranberry if it wasn’t written on the bottle. Light tartness at the end.

Pours a light orange with a small head. Light wheat aroma, wouldn’t notice the cranberry if it wasn’t written on the bottle. Light tartness at the end.