Caldera Brewing Company Vanilla Wheat

Vanilla Wheat

 

Caldera Brewing Company in Ashland, Oregon, United States 🇺🇸

  Wheat Ale Regular
Score
6.27
ABV: 4.8% IBU: 20 Ticks: 4
A filtered wheat beer using real vanilla beans.
 

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5.8/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 5.5 Flavor 5.5 Texture 6 Overall 6
Clear medium golden colour, tall frothy white head, good retenton. Aroma sweet malt, wheat, yeast, vanilla, bit butter. Mild taste, light heavy sweet and slightly bitter, malty, vanilla, sugary. Sweet aftertaste, sugar notes, light body, watery texture, soft carbonation. Overall not really attractive, kind of bland.
Tried from Bottle on 29 Apr 2019 at 12:00

5.1/10 Appearance 4 Aroma 5 Flavor 6 Texture 4 Overall 5.5
Ever so slightly hazy golden coloured body with a very thin, single centimetre tall off-white head. Aroma of wheat, grass, earth, alcohol and some fake sugars. Light-bodied; Sharp vanilla and pure cream flavours with some lactose, funky malts, hay and an odd fake sugar flavour noticeable at the very end, with some lighter wheat-based malt profile along with some bitter funk. Aftertaste shows the grassy and dryer flavours immediately after, but the fake sugars and lactose sweetness persist throughout and leave an odd flavour at the end with a dash of funk and dryness at the finish with some pungent alcohol (especially at less than 5,0% abv) and mellow yeastie/wheatie flavours that show a bit too much vanilla essence and funky sugars. Overall, a light beer that does show wheat and vanilla throughout. That said, this wasn't a cogent beer that had a profile that persisted throughout - it was more of a staggered beer that didn't show any complexity or depth and only funky characteristics throughout the sample - in not such a good way. I sampled this stubby twelve ounce bottle purchased from GlenRo Spirit Shoppe in Monroe, Connecticut on 10-March-2018 for US$1,00 sampled at home in Washington on 17-July-2018 during the MLB All-Star Game here in town on 17-July-2018.
Tried from Bottle on 18 Jul 2018 at 07:29

6.5/10 Appearance 6 Aroma 7 Flavor 6 Texture 6 Overall 7
Pale yellow with light haze. Aroma and flavour are light and wheaty. Only a light vanilla sweetness.
Tried on 29 Jul 2017 at 03:47

6.4/10 Appearance 8 Aroma 5 Flavor 5 Texture 8 Overall 7.5
Tap at Capitol Beer in Sacramento, CA. Pours light gold with a white head. Aroma: a little citrus; a little vanilla; a little wheat. Med minus body. Sadly I’m not a wheat ale fan. Flavor: a little citrus; a little vanilla; a little wheat. I don’t really get it.
Tried from Draft on 27 Aug 2015 at 16:38