Circus Boy

12 oz bottle-pours a retaining thin off white head and hazy yellow/orange color. Aroma is lemon, wheat. Taste is lemon, wheat, yeast, dry. OK carbonation. Thanks to Joe-jwc215 for sharing.

Bottle. Pours a cloudy peach color with medium retention. Aroma of wheat, grass and citrus. Taste is caramel malts with a sharp tartness, I guess from the lemongrass. Not bad.

Well, I felt pretty good about my super-discerning palate when I concluded that this wasn’t a hefeweizen. And then I logged on here and realized that many other people arrived at the same conclusion. I was right, anyway. So, the beer. Considering it as NOT a hefeweizen, it’s pretty good. The initial surprise I felt after tasting it gradually subsided as I realized that I was tasting something different. It would be like biting into an apple and tasting banana. i love bananas (and apples, incidentally), but if I were expecting to taste apple it would be weird. The beer is worth a taste, so go for it.

bottle - Pours cloudy yellow with a thin, dissipating head. There’s a good aroma of citrus and spice. The flavor is bland, particularly at first. The blend of citrus and spices comes out much more as it warms. Light bodied with lively carbonation, this brew is a decent wheat beer.

Brown bottle, 3/4 of a pint, best before May, savoured on June 16 2007; eye: orangey, hazy, a bit of beige head, light effervescence, no lacing; nose: light malt, light hops, some spices, lightly fruity; mouth: in that order, hops, grapefruit, orange, caramelized malt that remains for the rest of the sip, light spices, a bit of banana and lime, finale in light hops with a small presence of grapefruit and caramel, lightly sweet, slightly bitter, medium body, slightly creamy texture, quite carbonated; overall: fine FRANÇAIS Bouteille brune, 3/4 de pinte, meilleure avant mai, savourée le 16 juin 2007; œil : orangée, voilée, un peu de mousse beige, légère effervescence, pas de dentelle; nez : léger malt, léger houblon, épices, légèrement fruitée; bouche : dans cet ordre, houblon, pamplemousse, orange, malt caramélisé présent tout au long, légères épices, un peu de banane et de lime, finale en un houblon léger avec une petite présence de pamplemousse et de caramel, légèrement sucrée, très légèrement amère, corps moyen, texture légèrement crémeuse, assez carbonatée; en résumé : bien

Hoppy pale ale aroma, with orange undertones. Cloudy amber pour with a medium head. Tastes of hops and maybe celery. Weak lemon peel finish.

(Bottle 35,5 cl) Courtesy of Ungstrup. Slightly hazy, deep golden with a handsome, dense, creamy, white head leaving laces. Aroma of citrus and yeast. Light body, dry phenols, citrus, yeast and a whiff of butter. The finish is dry. 310507

Bottled. An unclear orange beer with a beige head. The aroma is sweet wheaty with light notes of banana, while the flavor is sweet wheaty, but more with notes of oranges.

Bottle. Pour is a somewhat hazy amber color. Head is about two fingers high and seems to be dying fairly slowly. Aromas are plainish... brass, wheat and yeast. Maybe a little light citrus. Flavor is a little bit sour, I can’t tell if it’s an intentional attempt at a bit of a lemony character (If that’s the case, Circus Boy isn’t pulling it off very well) or a little bit of a skunk (although this is unimaginable for such a young bottle... it says drink by July... it’s May.) At any rate, the sour character isn’t totally obnoxious... a little bit like a flemmish sour.