Whitsun
Arcadia Brewing Co. in Elk Rapids, Michigan, United States 🇺🇸
Brewed at/by: Short's Brewing CompanyWheat Ale Rotating Out of Production
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Score
6.26
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Brewed in the style of a mid-19th century English Festival Ale, this unfiltered wheat beer displays a translucent orange color topped with a creamy, white head. Wheat enhances the mouthfeel of the beer and produces pleasant bread-like notes while Michigan honey provides a caramelized sweetness in the flavor profile. This beer is spiced with orange peel and coriander and small amounts of three hop varieties pleasantly counterbalances the sweetness.
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6.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
Drought. Poured a cloudy orange. Hops and citrus I didn’t really get the caramel. OK but not really anything to stick with.
Tried
on 20 May 2025
at 00:52
6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Bottle from Lekkerbier, St. Nicolaasga. Aroma is spicy with lots of coriander, orange peel, lime, touch of ginger. Not very wheaty. Flavour is moderate sweet and light bitter. Body is medium. Heavy on the coriander, lime and orange peel.
Tried
from Bottle
on 07 Feb 2025
at 12:14
7.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Notes from 7/9/2008. Giving the flip top a tug, you'd swear there was an overgrown toddler sucking down on the end of that nipple. Ever try taking away a nipple bottle from a six year old who still thinks he's three? Hazardous. 32oz jug filled over at New Beer & forgotten about in the back of my fridge. The glass sweats like Pat Ewing & it's barely out of the box. NYC is not a fun place to be in July. Ugh. Half a liter goes into my weiss glass with about an inch+ of cream-colored head that slowly starts to melt along with the rest of my furniture. A touch of haze & activity going through a generic brand light amber body. Tangy-ish kiwi & bananas bump uglies & macerate in plenty of alcohol. Coriander & some yeasty bread make up the rest of what I smell. It's too hot to waste time smelling beer. Something like coriander or grains of paradise in the beginning(I've been drinking too much Sam Adams lately, sorry), minor hop zest, bready, & ever so slightly buttery. Finish is pretty easy. Just a touch salty/sweet with some breadyness & a pass of alcohol. Almost like a light weizenbock, if such a sacrilegious thing could be allowed to exist. Feel is excellent. Good carbonation; mild grainy feel gives traction to it's slightly slippery texture. The alcohol doesn't hide too well, even though it goes down without much effort. Pretty thick for whatever style you want to put it under. I'm not the biggest lush, but I wouldn't have a problem loading up on this one. :)
Tried
from Bottle
on 31 Dec 2024
at 23:31
8/10
Tried
from Draft
on 13 Dec 2024
at 18:51
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Draft pour at Savor: An American Craft Beer & Food Experience 2017. Poured a hazy yellow color with a small white head. Aroma was light wheat notes, light sweet malts. Light straw.
Tried
from Draft
on 03 Jun 2017
at 11:15
6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 5
Light wheat and not much else like looking for topography in saskatchwan. Golden pour. Clean finish. Bottle.
Tried
from Bottle
on 02 Jun 2017
at 23:04
5.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
Pine Box Rock Shop, Brooklyn tap: pours light orange with a white head. Atoma is orange and spice and wheat beer whatever. Taste is lightly spiced. It be a bit sweet. Would not know that it has as much alcohol as it does. Not a bad beer but uninspired. A relic of a bygone era.
Tried
from Draft
on 09 Apr 2016
at 19:58
6.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 7
Can at NYC Craft beer festival. Pours hazy yellow. Malty aroma. Taste of sweet fruits.
Tried
from Can
on 25 Mar 2016
at 22:22
6.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 4
Overall 7
Refrigerated 12 oz. brown bottle poured into a glass. Hazy orange with very small white head. Aroma is orange, medium body, low carbonation, and little lacing. Taste is bread, orange, some coriander, some honey, and some herbal hops/bitter finish.
Tried
from Bottle
on 03 Aug 2015
at 21:02
6/10
Poyet.
Tried
on 25 Apr 2015
at 21:11