Night Wheeler
Short's Brewing Company in Elk Rapids, Michigan, United States 🇺🇸
Lager - Dark India Style Rotating Out of Production|
Score
7.08
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A dark black lager with bold roasted malt and faint citrus hop aromas. Robust flavors of burnt cocoa and roasted espresso barely give way to some mild orange and grapefruit hoppiness. The light body and crisp nature of this unique lager allows for a showcased bitterness that seems delayed at first, but builds to a powerful finish.
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Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Poured into a pilsner glass, the appearance was a dark black color with a finger’s worth of white foamy head. Slow dissipation, moderate stringy lace.
The aroma had some smooth semi-bitter coffee grounds flowing over a light chocolate with a light bready/yeastiness. Some crisp citrus hops.
The flavor leans to the coffee grounds and chocolate and bready/yeastiness. Same smooth yeasty/bready aftertaste with the finish.
On the palate, this one sat about a light to medium on the body with a great sessionability about it. Low to medium carbonation. Very smooth in the texture.
Overall, decent Schwarzbier, mostly Americanized to probably try and get the hopheads to give this a whirl, but the more hops mostly distract from the true nature of this style. Though, would I have again? Actually, I think I would .
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Bottle. Creamy off-white good mostly lasting head. Black colour. Moderate malty and heavy hoppy aroma. Heavy biter nice roasted flavor. Average moderate bitter finish. Oily palate. Nice.
kajser27 (3009) reviewed Night Wheeler from Short's Brewing Company 10 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Dark brown to black colored, medium beige to tan head. Aroma of roasted malt, chocolate, coffee and floral hoppiness. Taste is chocolate and roasted malt, some caramel, coffee, moderate floral hops, medium bitterness, dry roasted, ashy finish. Medium bodied, soft carbonation. (bottle, Scout Club Irish Pub, Samobor)
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Sehr dunkel orangebraunes Bier mit einer schönen bräunlichen Schaumkrone. Der Geruch ist röstmalzig, erdig, trocken schokoladig. Der Geschmack ist trocken röstmalzig, angenehm hopfig, floral hopfig, schokoladig, gut!
mike_77 (15875) reviewed Night Wheeler from Short's Brewing Company 10 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
Aroma has some lightly roasted malts. The flavour is strong and bitter with lots of burnt malt and coffee. A light hoppy finish helps keeps it fresh enough to be a genuine session beer.
Benzai (24515) reviewed Night Wheeler from Short's Brewing Company 10 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
Bottle shared by Erwin Van Moll @ Brewpub Van Moll during the bottling of Benzai’s 10k beer. Dark brown to black color with a nice deep dark red glare coming through when held into the light, medium sized beige head that diminishes fairly quickly. Aroma is malts, hops and roast blended together nicely. Taste malts, roasted malts, bitter, hop lightly, hop bitter, dark malts, ash. Very nice mix of two different styles. Very well done imo!
gunnfryd (21926) reviewed Night Wheeler from Short's Brewing Company 10 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Fonefan 191214. Dark brown colour with a beige head. Aroma is vanilla, roasted malt, molasses, coffee. Flavour is dry, roasted malt, vanilla, popcorn , cocoa, coffee. OK/Nice beer.
fombe89 (10864) reviewed Night Wheeler from Short's Brewing Company 10 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Botella. @Cimmeria, Oviedo 21/05/2015. Color negro, espuma beige, aroma a lupulo, final resinoso amargo.
fonefan (84534) reviewed Night Wheeler from Short's Brewing Company 11 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
Bottle 12fl.oz. [ As Short’s Nightwheeler ].Clear dark brown color with a average to large, frothy, good lacing, mostly to fully lasting, beige head. Aroma is moderate to heavy malty, roasted, coffee, burnt popcorn. Flavour is moderate sweet and moderate to light heavy bitter with a long duration, coffee, roasted, malt bitter. Body is medium, texture is oily to watery, carbonation is soft. [20141219]
yngwie (24278) reviewed Night Wheeler from Short's Brewing Company 11 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Bottle. A dark brown beer, lighlty unclear, topped by a dense, light beige head. The aroma has a roasted, toffeeish touch reminding of popcorn that have spent too much time over heat. Quite fruity too, with cocoa hints, burnt notes and some coffee hints. Medium body and a pleasant carbonation level. Quite dry. Lasting finish with quite a lot of coffee. Hard to pin what style this is, but it’s sure a fine session beer. 141219