Bottle. Pours a hazy light gold with a fizzy head and aromas of cloves and other spicy esters. Flavor is light and peppery, but thin. Kind of like a watered down version of what I would expect from the style. Not bad, but I was hoping for a much more assertive beer.

Bottle at home. Pours cloudy yellow. No head. Nose/taste of banana, lemon citrus, clove, wheat malt and bubblegum. Lighter bodied. Refreshing.

Draft @ Bridge Tap House & Wine Bar, St Louis, MO. Pours a hazy yellow color with a small white head. Has a fruity wheat malty spicy clove aroma. Fruity wheat malty spicy clove and banana flavor. Has a wheat malty spicy banana finish.

4 oz draft pour at Urban Chestnut Midtown during RBSG 2014. Hazy yellow with off-white head. Aromas of floral, herbs, spices, malt. Tastes of citrus, floral, sweet malt, peppery, spices. Medium body, dry finish. Light mouthfeel.

Sampled from the tap at the brewpub. Pours a near clear straw yellow with a a white head that dissipates to the edges. Aroma has a lots of fruit and nutmeg with some light sweet wheat underlying. Flavor has lots of sweet wheat and clove with some earthy and sweet wheat backing.

Bottle (Reverence series #2). Pours with a moderately hazy yellow hued body with a large and fluffy white head. Great lace. Tight bubble grouping, good retention and lace. Aromas of earthy and almost a bit husky phenol. Typical 4VG, bready and wheat like malt. Very dry aroma. Some isoamyl acetate. Really an underripe banana/plantain nose. Almost some ceylon cinnamon. Grassy. Quite dry for a hefe, big bready malt, lots of bubblegum, mild isoamyl, mild 4vg. Very dry, missing some of the body of fresher classical examples. Quite drinkable though. Balance is slightly towards phenol with a good deal of malt. Nice. Lively carbonation, medium body, light acidity.

Bottle @ home, courtesy of jcnielsen. I’m not going to lie- I’m excited as fuck to try this, but am a bit nervous based on the amount of homerism that occurs in STL. Here goes... Pours a cloudy yellow-orange appearance with a white head. Fairly spicy, huge phenolic, banana, clove, vanilla, a bit overly yeasty, lemon nose. Very spicy, chewy yeasty, clove/nutmeg, a touch tart citrusy flavor. Hmmm, not necessarily off, but the yeasty elements seem to be overdone. Not bad but not worthy of the 99th percentile in my opinion.

So I am currently at Busch Stadium watching my beloved Mets lose to my fiancé’s Cardinals. I am surrounded by a sea of red and everyone is too Midwest nice to give me shit for being a Mets fan, it makes things even worse. The bright side is that Urban Chstnut has their beer on tap here. Cost is $7.50 for a 16oz plastic cup. Pretty sweet deal if you compare it to 7 bucks for a Blue Moon. The beer pours with a nice thick head atop a thick golden body. Aroma is hefe banana with some grainy yeast knees. Flavor follows suit with very drinkable subdued banana esters ad sweet banana cream like graininess. By far the best beer I have ever purhased at a major league park. I don’t get this part, why is Terry Collins pinch hitting for the starter in the top of the fifth? He has only given up 4 runs. Are we is abundance of unworked relievers?