Penobscot Bay Brewery Meadow Road Wheat

Meadow Road Wheat

 

Penobscot Bay Brewery in Winterport, Maine, United States 🇺🇸

  Wheat Ale Regular
Score
7.06
ABV: 5.4% IBU: 12 Ticks: 3
Why skip through a meadow when you can sip through a Meadow Road Wheat? True to classic Hefeweizen tradition, this unfiltered brew uses only malted wheat, lager malt, a top-fermenting Bavarian yeast, and is lightly topped with Tettnanger. It has a beautiful medium-golden yeasty haze with a bright palate. The nose has notes of clove and honeysuckle coming through a background of banana. The latter not being very meadow-y. But very tasty.

One always wonders about the road not partaken.
 

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8.9
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 9.5

Reviewed from old notes.
This was poured into a weizen glass.
The appearance was a nice cloudy yellow color with a big soft white foamy head that dissipated within about a good three minutes. Yeah, it took that long, seriously. The lacing was more than adequate with a real nice stringy speckling of spider web goodness - nice show.
The smell had some light clove, light coriander followed by the citrus soft sweet banana esters and a super refreshing sort of orange juice - really nice.
The taste took all of those previously mentioned flavors and combined to just about almost perfect.
The palate accepted a real nice sessionability with a great refreshing banana aftertaste and finish. How this one rolled over my tongue is quite remarkable - let’s just say everything I mentioned just hits it extremely nicely.
Overall, this is Penobscot Bay’s best beer, I hope some day I’ll make it back to Maine to partake in this wonderful beer.

Tried on 01 Sep 2014 at 09:48


6.4
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

22 oz bottle, pored a hazy straw, yellow. Nice big fluffy head that produced large spotted head. Aroma is Bravarian wheat, light citrus and a hint of coriander/spice. Taste is much the same as of the aroma. And is a very light refreshing brew. The down fall is it’s a very watery mouthfeel lacking any real body. A bad beer? No. However I would move to the next one

Tried from Bottle on 31 Jan 2011 at 17:48


7
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

Brown bottle, 650 ml, purchased at Bangor Wine and Cheese on August 17 2010, savoured on August 25 2010; eye: golden with a whitish hue, lightly hazy, light effervescence, white head that turns into a tiny ring, no lacing; nose: wheat, acidity, freshness, floral, perfumy, banana, clove, light honey; mouth: wheat, acidity, freshness, floral, perfumy, banana, clove, light honey, perfumy finale with presence of wheat, medium-light body, rather carbonated, lightly acidic, slick texture; overall: interesting FRANÇAIS Bouteille brune, 650 ml, achetée chez Bangor Wine and Cheese le 17 août 2010, savourée le 25 août 2010; œil : dorée avec une teinte blanchâtre, légèrement voilée, légère effervescence, mousse blanche qui se transforme en un petit anneau, pas de dentelle; nez : blé, acidité, fraîcheur, floral, parfumé, banane, clou de girofle, léger miel; bouche : blé, acidité, fraîcheur, floral, parfumé, banane, clou de girofle, léger miel, finale parfumée avec présence de blé, corps moyen-léger, plutôt carbonatée, légèrement acide, texture coulante; en résumé : intéressante

Tried from Bottle on 26 Aug 2010 at 14:08