Spinnaker
Rising Tide Brewing Company in Portland, Maine, United States 🇺🇸
Weizen - Hefeweizen Regular|
Score
6.22
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yespr (55501) reviewed Spinnaker from Rising Tide Brewing Company 8 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 4.5
12 fl oz can. Pours hazy yellow, white head. Aroma is estery, slight herbal and mild fruity. Dry estery, mild fruity. Banana and bubblegum. Estery finish.
jgb9348 (11828) reviewed Spinnaker from Rising Tide Brewing Company 8 years ago
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 6
Slightly hazy copper and light bronze coloured body with a ridiculously large, super soapy pure white head, about eight centimetres tall, perhaps closer to ten! Aroma of pure bread, yeast, grass, hay, light earth and a bit of wheat. Light to Medium-bodied; Slightly sweet flavour of pears and apples noticeable along with a large wheatie and bready kick showing some pungent yeast elements, a big dose of sugars and a more fruity finish than I expected. Aftertaste is fairly mild with a small dose of sweetness and the grassy, yeastie freshness, noticeable all the way around. Overall, a very dry and almost sweet, sugary finish near the tail end. Overall, a good wheat ale, but probably not the best from the brewery. I sampled this stubby twelve ounce bottle purchased from Hannaford in Portland, Maine on 30-July-2016 for US$9,99/six pack, sampled on 17-June-2017 at home in Washington. This bottle was born in June 2016, Batch #505, sampled a year later back in Washington.
Mansquito (19100) reviewed Spinnaker from Rising Tide Brewing Company 9 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
At the source: hazy gold with white head. Aroma is banana and clove. Taste is sweet and light hoppiness... More than in a usual hefe. Kind of soapy at the end. Meh. Not bad.
nimbleprop (16712) reviewed Spinnaker from Rising Tide Brewing Company 9 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 5
Sampled at the brewery, pours a hazy yellow with some ringing white head. Nose of yeast, bubblegum, clove, mild candy. Flavor has lemon-lime soda, same kind of candy, straw, chewed bubblegum. Finishes spritzy.
Clarkvv (16523) reviewed Spinnaker from Rising Tide Brewing Company 10 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5
Bottle, undated, from Downtown Wine and Spirits, drunk 8/16/15.
All of the sediment had dropped out, leaving the beer sparklingly clear golden. White head is dense but small and slowly recedes to cover.
Very minimal esters in the nose, moreso corn-like notes, with soft bubble gum, and a dominant banan-tinged cream of wheat. Possible oxidation, even, which is odd, seeing as how this is unfiltered and can’t be THAT old (though there’s no bottling date, so who knows....). No alcohol.
In the mouth, it’s rather watery, as expected, with heavily attenuated malts leaving very dry, lightly sour wheat flavor behind and a touch of corn and bubble gum. Mixing the sediment in didn’t really do much, adding just a touch of chewiness to the texture. Not sure what to think here; I like that it’s dry, but it’s exceedingly so and the esters are a bit sluggish and unclean.
tfontana (7277) reviewed Spinnaker from Rising Tide Brewing Company 10 years ago
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Bottle from The Drinkery, Londonderry NH. Aroma is mild fruity esters with some yeast and some bready malt. A little like a Chardonnay. Appearance is clear light greenish yellow with no sparkle and no head/lacing. Taste is lightly sweet with slight fruity taste. Palate is light-bodied with thin texture and lively carbonation--perhaps the thing that stands out the most in the beer, and surprising given the lack of sparkle and head. Finish is dry and mildly bitter. Overall, true to the style--a refreshing, light, carbonated beer that satisfies a parched throat on a hot, summer day.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5
Bottle from Harvest Market Pours a hazy deep straw color with a decent sized big bubbled white head that dissipates quickly like diet fountain soda. Aromas of lemon, wheat, and a bit of yeasty funk. Not much appetizing about the nose IMHO. The flavor is a little sweet a bit spicy and tart with hints of lemon and yeasty funk. Medium to light body with a moderate level of carbonation and a tart almost piercing mouthfeel. I didn’t enjoy this one very much.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Reviewed from notes.
The appearance has a hazy golden yellow body with some light carbonation is seen at the bottom rising but fades into the body. There’s a nice foamy white one finger head tries to stick around.
The smell has the wheat/yeasty, estery/banana-ness with lots of clove coming through in a spicy sort of way.
The taste is sweet yet spicy yet somewhat wheaty, light lemon of sorts following all the way through and leaving a nice wheaty aftertaste and finish.
On the palate, it was about a light to medium and somewhat sessionable. Carbonation seems spot on and just the way I like it as well.
Overall, wow, very quickly I’m starting to like hefes, seems like I just needed to try the right ones as I would come back to this again if able.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Pours hazy gold into a Sam glass. White soapy head recedes leaving no lacing. Clove and banana aromas. Soft with sweet clove and wheat upfront turning to mild banana in the medium length finish.
CLW (16859) reviewed Spinnaker from Rising Tide Brewing Company 12 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
22 oz. bottle from Hampton Falls Village Market. Perfect display of a hefeweizen. The nose got me excited the smell is right on for this style, lots of yeast phenols. Tons of banana, bubblegum and clove. For some strange reason the taste didn’t match the wonderful yeast aromas. Somehow everything was muted. I know the bottle was fresh, so age wasn’t a problem. It just really let me down after the great aromas it started off with. A nice try and Rising Tide almost hit the mark for a German Hefe.