Wheat
Sierra Nevada Brewing Company in Chico, California, United States 🇺🇸
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Score
5.87
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Wheat Beer is a pale, unfiltered, and light-bodied beer. Strissel Spalt hops from the Alsace region of France are used to create its very refreshing and smooth character.
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6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
(Bottle 35,5 cl) Pretty light golden, unfiltered wheat beer with a decent but not overwhelming head. Dry, actually very dry with a surprisingly high hoppiness (apparently from whole, fresh hops). Surprising as most European wheats are low on bitterness. Not as fruity or floral as German wheats, not as refined as Belgian. But quite it’s own personality.
Tried
from Bottle
on 16 Mar 2005
at 13:29
4.6/10
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Appearance 4
Aroma 4
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 4.5
A hazy light yellow beer with a small white disappearing head. The aroma is primarily of wheat, but also quite spicy, and so is the flavor.
Tried
on 26 Feb 2005
at 04:18
6.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Hazy golden color with flocks of yeast, thin white head. Aroma is extremely hoppy, more like an IPA, quite malty, some wheat. Probably, this is a quite typical american wheat, but i cant stop to compare them to belgian whites or german weizens, although it’s a whole different ball game. Taste is a bit flat, sweet of some candy sugar, bit yeasty.
Tried
from Can
on 25 Jan 2005
at 15:25
6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Clear light golden with a pretty large head. Smells hoppy, sweet, and only slightly wheaty. Flavor is not that wheaty... it’s pretty hoppy and has a tart tanginess to it, slightly fruitlike. A decent wheat beer, but not one I’ll seek out.
Tried
on 20 Jan 2005
at 00:25
5.1/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 4
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
Cloudy blond color. Light malty aroma, a bit smelly. Almost a lager, poor Weizen character (because of the yeast, probably) and high bitterness. Not a bad beer, but different from the Weizen I’m used to.
Tried
on 05 Dec 2004
at 11:15
4.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 3
Flavor 4
Texture 6
Overall 4.5
Pours a light yellow with a huge white head. Aroma is weak. Flavor has a lemony zest to it but that’s about it. I don’t get the hops like the bottle tells me i should. Overall a weak attempt at a wheat. Needs more yeasty and fruity flavor.
Tried
from Bottle
on 24 Oct 2004
at 15:11
5.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 5
Bottled. Cloudy golden. Sulphury malt aroma. Sweetish and medium bodied. Some hops in a reasonably bitter finish. Not unpleasant, but I don’t grasp the idea with this beer.
Tried
from Bottle
on 25 Sep 2004
at 10:11
6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Pours a lightly hazy golden orange color with a medium fluffy white head. Thin and sticky lacing. The aroma is midly hoppy with no discernible wheat. Light-bodied and crisp, with light hops, citrus and yeast flavors. As with the aroma there is little to no wheat present. The finish is Lager-ish, mildly bitter and carbonated. As it stands, this is a fair summer beer but falls short in the Wheat category.
Tried
on 30 Aug 2004
at 14:58
5.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 6
Texture 4
Overall 5.5
Not bad, but not really overly inspired either. +++Sampled from a 12 oz bottle this beer poured a pale yellow color with no real head to speak of. The aroma was light and of course hoppy - but really fainter than I would have thought. The body is light an kind of thin and watery which I found to be a real disappointment. The flavor was hoppy and mildly wheaty with a a bready aftertaste.
Tried
from Bottle
on 04 Jul 2004
at 10:02
5.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 4
Overall 6
Hazy blond bear with quickly dissapperaing head. Light malt aroma. Light malt in mouth with little hops, lemon tartness comes more in aftertaste, especially with a cheese. Not bad.
Tried
on 01 Dec 2003
at 20:20