Pooltime Ale
Bell's Brewery in Galesburg, Michigan, United States 🇺🇸
Fruit Beer Rotating Out of Production|
Score
6.53
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Pooltime Ale is a refreshing Belgian-inspired Wheat Ale with light clove notes. The truly distinguishing feature is the use of 100% Montmorency tart cherries grown in the Traverse City region of Michigan. These cherries add a subtle tartness and bright counterpoint to the other flavors, enhancing Pooltime’s fruity character and making it the perfect beer for all summer activities.
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4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 4
Flavor 4
Texture 4
Overall 3
Sample at a festival. This is not up to Bell's standards. Just a little fruit and some wheat. It tastes cheap.
Tried
on 08 Aug 2018
at 01:55
6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Draught @ Lager Tap House, San Diego. Pours hazy golden with a creamy white head, lacings. Aroma of wheat, light spice, fruit, cherries. Flavor is light sweet, wheat, fruit, cherries. Thin to medium body, soft to average carbonation, light sweet finish. 260718
Tried
from Draft
on 30 Jul 2018
at 05:26
5/10
Tried
from Can
on 05 Jul 2018
at 19:19
7.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
Tap at Goodnight Irene’s in Wildwood, NJ. Amber gold pour. Malty nose hints at dark fruit. Tart cherry notes upfront are subtle. Spicy wheat notes. Smooth mouthfeel. Light dry finish.
Tried
from Draft
on 16 Jun 2018
at 00:57
5.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 5
Canned from Village Beer Merchant. Murky orange. Wheat, cherry, juicy, bit yeasty, hint of cloves that gets more dominant. Med carbo. Finish slightly dry. Not sure if like.
Tried
from Can
on 13 Jun 2018
at 19:34
7/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 7
16 oz. draft at Reilly Craft pizza, Tucson Arizona. Aroma shows mild cherry, wheat, yeast and maybe coriander.
The flavor has a decent cherry character with a wheaty/ yeasty backbone. Mild coriander. Mildly tart finish. Certainly drinkable and goes down well with pizza.
The flavor has a decent cherry character with a wheaty/ yeasty backbone. Mild coriander. Mildly tart finish. Certainly drinkable and goes down well with pizza.
Tried
from Draft
on 13 Jun 2018
at 12:52
7/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8
Can from Craft Brewed. Pours a hazy sakuranbo, pinkish red with 2 fingers of foam that linger. Lovely cherry forward nose with cherry skin and flesh aromas, some cobwebs and faint strawberry notes. Grainy texture on the palate, with some wet hay, grain, sweet sakuranbo and light bitterness. Smooth and highly drinkable, although it doesn't look very appealing visually. Lingering sweet cherry on the finish with more cobweb and must. Pretty solid.
Tried
from Can
on 08 Jun 2018
at 01:12
7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Sampled from a 12 oz can this beer poured a fizzy dark golden color with a huge creamy yellow-white head that lingered and left good lacing. The aroma was yeasty and dusty with faint cherry and phenol. The flavor was tart cherry, berry, sugar and yeast. Medium length finish with growing cherry. Medium bodied and smooth. Very pleasant.
Tried
from Can
on 22 Jan 2018
at 19:39
5.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
12 oz can. Cloudy gold pour with an off-white head and fair retention. Spotty lacing. A strange mix of wheat, yeast, cherry and spices. Not my preferred profile. Thin mouthfeel. More wheat / wit than fruit beer.
Tried
from Can
on 08 Jul 2017
at 16:33
6.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
From tap. Pours hazy orange with a small white head. Aroma is mild fruity, slight estery. Medium dry, light estery fruity. Mellow and estery into the finish. Subdued fruity note.
Tried
from Draft
on 07 Jul 2017
at 19:35