Crushworthy Lo-Cal Citrus Wheat: Orange and Lemon
Great Lakes Brewing in Cleveland, Ohio, United States 🇺🇸
Wheat Ale Series|
Score
6.12
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Do you believe in love at first sip? With a lightly filtered body and a sweet kiss of orange, it's more than a crush. It's your new main squeeze.
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5.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 4
Overall 5
It smells citrusy and has a lightly sweet flavor with citrus and malt. It’s easy drinking and is not bad, but to me is overly bland and does nothing to change my belief that low calorie beers just don’t work all that well.
Tried
on 22 Nov 2022
at 05:35
5.1/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 6
Flavor 5
Texture 4
Overall 5.5
Very hazy, deep golden and light orange tinted body with a thinnish pure white head of about a single centimetre tall that fades to just about nothing, only a few seconds later. Aroma of bright orange juice, some sunny-d (artificial), a dash of wheat and coriander seed with some additional curacao here, interesting, but a bit more rustic that expected. Light-bodied; Very funky and artificial, subdued and grassy notes showing at first with some saccharine, aspartame and fake/artifiical oranges here at first with some wheat here for sure, but on the softer side and sort of hiding around the orange flavours. Aftertaste shows some mangoes and light tropical notes, but the fake orange flavours show strongest here, and while probably not the best, they are easy-drinking and giving off the soft malts/wheat here to go down easily. Overall, a definitely 'crushable' beer that shows wheat, fake oranges and a clean, easy-drinking profile that makes this easy-to-go-down, while pretty devoid of flavour, at least complexity, and while this isn't bad, it surel isn't great and sort of the beers I usually try to avoid, but this one was at least from the source! I sampled this twelve ounce can, purchased from Rozi's Wine House in Lakewood (Cleveland), Ohio on 31-July-2021 for US$1,90 sampled at my house here in Washington on 26-September-2022 on hopefully one of the last warm days here in the city for the year.
Tried
from Can
on 27 Sep 2022
at 07:42
6.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Golden pour with decent head. Light citrus. Not a lot to this, obviously. Light tang in the finish. Tap at Savor.
Tried
from Draft
on 28 Jun 2022
at 14:29
5.4/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 4
Overall 5.5
Can, from giant eagle. As stated previously, its slightly cloudy, yellow in color, with a decent amount of white head. Yes it is crushable. Its quite mellow as far as alky content goes, its certainly not volatile. MMMM, its lemon flavored almost lemonade feeling makes me want to drink more. But oh well, its just another fruit beer, slightly dull and unrecognizable. Yes, lemon flavored and wants to be a shandy, but it rather dull with a somewhat lack of sugar in there. Does not pass as a shandy. Just another fruit beer that is lemon flavored. There you have it. Yes, a fruit beer that wants to be a shandy but never quite gets there, oh well.
Tried
from Can
on 24 Apr 2022
at 21:43
6.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 6.5
12 oz can from John, danke, 4/6/22. Pours slightly cloudy, yellow in color, with a decent amount of white head. Wheat, clove, lemon, other spice. Light and a little thin, but certainly crushable. Is it crushworthy? I guess so, but it isn't crushciting. Not sure you can legally take more than 10 minutes to drink this, so to be safe, I didn't.
Tried
from Can
on 06 Apr 2022
at 20:11
6.4/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 4
Overall 7.5
Bread crust nose. Cloudy golden, thin head. Lemongrass, coriander, bread. Light body, moderate carbonation. Definitely light, but still flavorful.
Tried
on 08 Sep 2021
at 20:02
4.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 4
Flavor 4
Texture 4
Overall 4.5
12 oz. can from Tops in Lewiston, NY. Poured in a paper cup. Gold color with a white head and good retention. Light citrus and yeast aroma. The taste follows the nose. Light citrus start with a Belgian yeast finish. Tastes more like a light Witbier than a wheat ale to me. Light body and mouthfeel. Nice light summer beer, but too yeasty for my tastes.
Tried
from Can
on 26 Aug 2021
at 23:40
5.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 5
Hazy amber with a large foamy head. Bitter and rough with orange and floral hops. Long finish. Medium body.
Tried
on 16 Aug 2021
at 19:40
6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
12 ounce can from Woodman's Appleton, 5/6/21. Rating as many different states in a row as I can without repeats. Starting on 5/4: IL, CT, NY, VA, TN, IA, MN, AZ, and now OH. Hazy yellow, large frothy white head, good retention. Aroma of pale malt, lemon ice. Taste is lemon, wheat. Crisp, simple, and as the name implies, crushable.
Tried
from Can
on 07 May 2021
at 03:23
6.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Refrigerated 12 oz. can, best before July 8, 2021, poured into a glass. Hazy golden with small white head. Aroma is wheat esters, light body, medium carbonation, and little lacing. Taste is citrus and wheat esters.
Tried
from Can
on 07 Apr 2021
at 01:18