Wild Night
Swamp Head Brewery in Gainesville, Florida, United States 🇺🇸
Cream Ale Regular|
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6.18
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Light and refreshing, yet busting with flavor. We add Florida Tupelo honey to a traditional cream ale, and just a touch of hops, to update this American classic. This is what a light beer should bee!
Tupelo honey is produced from the tupelo gum tree which grows profusely along the Chipola and Apalachicola rivers of northwest Florida. Here in the river swamps, bees are placed on elevated platforms along the river’s edge or on floating barges; the bees fan out through the surrounding Tupelo-blossom-laden swamps during April and May and return with their precious treasure. This river valley is the only place in the world where Tupelo Honey is produced commercially.
Tupelo Honey is considered to be the finest quality honey in the world and is the only variety certified for varietal purity. It costs a bit more, but we think you will find that it produces a crisp light beer that rivals the finest lagers in the world.
Ingredients:
American barley malts and corn
Florida Tupelo Honey
New Zealand organic Hallertau hops
Production Targets:
Original Gravity: 14 Brix
IBUs: 17.9
Alcohol By Volume: 5.9%
Tupelo honey is produced from the tupelo gum tree which grows profusely along the Chipola and Apalachicola rivers of northwest Florida. Here in the river swamps, bees are placed on elevated platforms along the river’s edge or on floating barges; the bees fan out through the surrounding Tupelo-blossom-laden swamps during April and May and return with their precious treasure. This river valley is the only place in the world where Tupelo Honey is produced commercially.
Tupelo Honey is considered to be the finest quality honey in the world and is the only variety certified for varietal purity. It costs a bit more, but we think you will find that it produces a crisp light beer that rivals the finest lagers in the world.
Ingredients:
American barley malts and corn
Florida Tupelo Honey
New Zealand organic Hallertau hops
Production Targets:
Original Gravity: 14 Brix
IBUs: 17.9
Alcohol By Volume: 5.9%
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5.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 5
Texture 4
Overall 6
Golden with a mild honey nose, bready malts, mild bitter finish. Dry. Not a good match with bleu cheese
Tried
on 09 Aug 2011
at 16:32
5.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 4
Overall 5
A hazed blonde ale with a thin superlacing white head. A sweet funky mash aroma, a bit spoiled , a bit of spices, cinnamon. In mouth, a rather light milkey and creamy beer with fruity esters, light hops, a bit boring. On tap at Sarasota Brewing Co., Jan. 3 2011.
Tried
from Draft
on 23 Jan 2011
at 14:22
6.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Draft @ FBGBF ’010. Pours just watery clear with a faint hue of yellow color supporting a thin bright white head. I don’t think I’ve seen a beer that was this close to looking like a glass of tap water. The aroma is very light with a sense of graininess, noble hops and malts. The taste is sweet and somewhat watery to start beginning with honey sweetness and then some graininess rolling into mild amounts of noble hoppiness around the edges. The above average carbonation helps give it a little bit of a flavor kick to help keep it from being too watery.
Tried
from Draft
on 26 Mar 2010
at 21:15
6.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 6.5
@FBGBF-on tap–pours a white ring for a head and straw color. Aroma is grain, herbal, honey. Taste is grain/apple, herbal, honey. *101124-Wild One-on tap @ Mr Beery-sweet light malt, spice hops. Taste is sweet light malt/wheat-honey, spice hops. Light body but not thin. Good effervescence.
Tried
from Draft
on 08 Mar 2010
at 06:12
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Draft @ FBGBF ’10. Swamp Head. Interesting brewery, up and coming and quite honestly, each of their beer is unique. The incorporation of locality in the brewing process is always a nice extra. Pours nice hazy golden, white head. Aroma and flavors, lots of good honey sweetness. The addition of NZ hops always brings a great dimension to the beer that I’ve come to enjoy a lot. There is a mild touch of barley, pale malts, that is nicely mixed with the bitter hops though keeping a unique honey flavor coupled with some tropical notes. Light and refreshing. Greta to see them come to Tampa.
Tried
from Draft
on 07 Mar 2010
at 20:17