Wheat IPA
Shock Top Beers in St. Louis, Missouri, United States 🇺🇸
IPA - Wheat / White Rotating Out of Production|
Score
5.34
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Shock Top Wheat IPA is a unique hybrid style that brings the refreshment and smoothness of a wheat beer and marries it with the crisp, hoppy bitterness of an India Pale Ale (IPA).
To create the new beer, brewmasters started with Shock Top's signature recipe, adding citrusy Cascade and Magnum hops and dry hopping the beer for several days to give Wheat IPA the rich, hoppy aroma that is the signature of IPAs.
To create the new beer, brewmasters started with Shock Top's signature recipe, adding citrusy Cascade and Magnum hops and dry hopping the beer for several days to give Wheat IPA the rich, hoppy aroma that is the signature of IPAs.
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6.5/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Sampled from a 12 oz brown bottle this beer poured a cloudy caramel-apricot color with a large creamy orange-white head that lingered and left good lacing. The aroma was sweet honey, orange and bread. The flavor was tangy and sweetish with notes of bread, orange and honey. Medium finish and body. Not much of an IPA but this was a nicely pleasant brew.
Tried
from Bottle
on 22 Apr 2012
at 11:58
4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 4
Flavor 3
Texture 4
Overall 4
Bottle. Pours a hazy orange gold with a medium frothy white head that leaves sticky lacing. The aroma is wheat and orange peel. Medium mouthfeel with a skunky wheat and bitter finish. Not much going on with this one.
Tried
from Bottle
on 12 Apr 2012
at 23:33
6.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Refrigerated bottle poured into a shaker. Pours translucent orange with small bright white which dissapates quickly. Some small bubble lacing, well/medium carbonation, medium body, and citrus aroma. Taste is wheat, citrus, hint of pint, and light bitter hop finish.
Tried
from Bottle
on 10 Apr 2012
at 16:52
4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 4
Flavor 3
Texture 4
Overall 3
Bottle. Light orange wheat malt and orange peel aroma. Hazy golden yellow color with moderate head. Lightly sweet orange malt and very light hop flavor. Watery. Not quite a gateway beer - maybe a gateway to gateway beers.
Tried
from Bottle
on 02 Apr 2012
at 17:18
5.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 4
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
Looks like a hefe from a bottle. Does have a citrusy bite to it but initially its rather mellow for an IPA. Fresh aroma. As the session continues the bitterness does begin to build and provides a medium bitter finish. Decent co2 thru-out. Not bad for an IPA beer, keeping in mind I really dislike IPA in general, hehehh.
Tried
from Draft
at
Bowser's
on 29 Mar 2012
at 08:05
4.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 4
Texture 4
Overall 5
Bottle: Poured a orangeish color with an off white head. Aroma is citrus and wheat. Taste is dull with citrus and wheat, very little hops. This could be a set-up beer to the beginner beer drinker because they might think this is a true IPA (per discussion with drowland).
Tried
from Bottle
on 29 Mar 2012
at 07:36
7.9/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 8
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Bubble gum nose. Cloudy amber, medium yellow head, good lace. Wheat bread with bubble gum and citrus at midpalate and returning to wheat in the finish. It strikes me as an ABIB attempt at Three Floyds Gumball Head. It’s enjoyable, but not nearly as good. Nice transitions and one of ABIB’s better offerings.
Tried
on 04 Mar 2012
at 08:58
4.6/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 6
Flavor 5
Texture 4
Overall 3.5
12oz bottle poured into a shaker. Pours a hazy golden orange with minimal head. Aroma of wheat and a little citrus hops. Taste is light bitter and lightly sweet. It tastes like they took a decent beer then cut it with water...lots of water. Light bodied with a thin texture. Fizzy carbonation and not much of a finish. Overall, not very good. Not something I would recommend to anyone.
Tried
from Bottle
on 29 Feb 2012
at 18:29
6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 4
Overall 6
I kinda think there’s some macro bias in here. If this was served blind, it would be getting scores in the 3.0 range and that’s where I’m rating it. Obviously not an IPA but it had a pleasant enough light citric hopping, at about pale ale levels. Flavor similar, crisp and thinned out by the wheat, clean all the way through, fair enough as a lightly hopped wheat ale.
Tried
on 19 Feb 2012
at 13:58
4.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 4
Flavor 5
Texture 4
Overall 4.5
Pour is a hazy orange with a large white head. Aroma is dull wheat notes with some very minimal spice. Flavor is deffinatly a wheat beer base with some peach flavoring showing up toward the end. Like most other raters, there is almost no hop presence in this. This could be considered a fruit beer more than and IPA. It’s drinkable that’s about it.
Tried
on 11 Feb 2012
at 13:59