River Guide
Berkshire Brewing Company in South Deerfield, Massachusetts, United States 🇺🇸
Wheat Ale Rotating Out of Production|
Score
6.65
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A truly unique ale, this dark American wheat beer is “single-hopped” with Willamettes, accenting that variety’s signature profile while letting the malts shine through. River Guide’s slightly sweet flavor is accented with notes of
nuttiness, fresh baked bread, and a light spiciness of wheat. A brew that stands alone in the beer landscape.
nuttiness, fresh baked bread, and a light spiciness of wheat. A brew that stands alone in the beer landscape.
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6.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
Muddy brown color that signifies this beer as rather unfiltered. Tan head. Caramel and malt aroma and the taste is pretty much the same. The alcohol is covered up pretty well by the hearty malts in this beer. Kind creamy and smooth.
Tried
on 05 Oct 2008
at 13:03
4.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 5
Flavor 4
Texture 4
Overall 4.5
Thanks to RCL for this bomber in a trade. Pours like dark hefe or dunleweizen. All I can say about this is wheat dark wheat. Has a sweet mild aroma about it. Comes on at first like a weisenbock on the olfactory. During the session the alky content seems to mellow out a bit. Almost becomes well behaved after a while. Hints of banana or wheat beer. Probably should be listed as a weizenbock, looks like and tastes like many weizenbocks I’ve had. Back of throat malt bitter bite build during the session. Interstingly good cross between an ale and a dunkleweizen. Has a choco malt aroma in the background. Finish is alky malty impression that hangs for a while.
Tried
from Can
on 24 Feb 2008
at 11:27
6.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 9
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
Muddy brownish orange. Super cloudy!!! Smells very enticing. Warm, thick banana nut bread smell. Sweet raisin pudding. I could go on for a while about the aroma. Small lacy white-tan head. Initially very malty with a strong caramel/cinnamon alcohol follow up. Almost like cinnamon raisin french toast, but not overly sweet. Mild and lightly bittersweet fruit flavors dance on the palette. I definitely agree that this beer goes well at the start and then just peters out. It gets watery towards the middle of the body, and then just dies from there. Thin with a touch of caramel cappucino in the finish, and then, almost nothing. . . Too bad, this beer definitely has potential. And I can't get over how good it smells. Definitely a unique effort here, but needs improvement. If they could make this thing good all the way through, I'd rate it much more highly. If you saw potential in this, try Ipswich Dark Ale, you will be impressed.
Tried
from Can
on 30 Aug 2003
at 13:51