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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3.8/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 3
Flavor 4
Texture 6
Overall 3
Bottle @ home. I’m somewhat intrigued by "Wheat IPAs", though it pisses me off when they’re classified as wheat ales and are rated the best wheat ales. I picked this up against my better judgment. Hazy, dark orange appearance with an off white head that dissipates to nothing quickly. There’s some wheat malts, coriander, orange peel, and other citrus notes in the nose. Tangy, rich orange peel, mild coriander, very lightly hopped, wheat malty flavor. Where’s the hops? This is an IPA? I’d classify it as a shit bomb [ale].
Tried
from Bottle
on 07 Feb 2012
at 21:43
6.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
12 oz bottle. Alright, let’s check out the latest Blue Moon ripoff from AB-Inbev. Pours cloudy orange with a medium white head that falls into a skiff of foam after a minute or so. I smell the citrus peels in the nose and that’s about it. Taste is dryly bitter with a bit of malt sweetness that attempts to balance things out. The citrus peels are very apparent. I’m used to my IPAs being citrusy--grapefruit especially--but this is different. It seems the citrus-ness here is not from the hops, but soley from the added citrus peels. Mouthfeel is creamy and the carbonation is average; body is light. Overall, it’s a different take on the IPA style--the wheat clearly alters the style profile--which I can appreciate, but it doesn’t leave much of an impression.
Tried
from Bottle
on 21 Jan 2012
at 12:44