3.5/10
—
Appearance 4
Aroma 4
Flavor 4
Texture 4
Overall 2
Bottle: Poured a golden color ale with a small thin white head with little retention. Aroma is sweet with blackcurrant being very hard to distinguish. Taste is also very sweet with some malt and some very subtle blackcurrant. Body is way too thin and this beer generally lacks character.
Tried
from Bottle
on 15 Aug 2006
at 12:16
4.5/10
—
Appearance 4
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 4
Overall 4
Bottle: Poured a golden color beer with a small head and very little retention. Aroma of sweet malt is quite overpowering with no hops discernable. Taste is very sweet with some light malt presence. Hops are very hard to discern. Overall, this is a refreshing but also quite boring beer.
Tried
from Bottle
on 14 Aug 2006
at 14:39
6.6/10
—
Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
12 oz bottle poured into a LaFin Du Monde tulip glass. Pours a very nice color actually pale with orange tints. A bit of lacing. Aroma is present and very unique, I wouldnt call it a Hefe. A good presence of citrus fruit (orange and lemon). A candy sweetness very present as well. Not so strong on the wheat aroma. The taste is a bit weak for me. Similar presence of fruit but just not strong enough. Finishes with no bitterness and a sweetness meone candy aftertaste.
Tried
from Bottle
on 09 Aug 2006
at 21:05
7.6/10
—
Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
My 57th style of beer! Bonus botle from a trade with Porterhouse. Nose of caramelly malts with some light fruit notes; Copper colored with a tiny off-white head; roasty caramel apple flavor with a little of the alcohol showing. A little hop bitterness for the finish.
Tried
on 27 Jun 2006
at 20:14
4.6/10
—
Appearance 4
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 4
Overall 4.5
I do not know why I keep doing this to myself All these wheat infused with syrup beers taste like soda beer. This one wasn’t any better. I know they could do a better job (i.e. Blue Point Blueberry). By the way how exactly is this modeled after lambics. By that logic B ot the E is also modeled after lambics. Damn you Vermont, I have had enough of you and your sucky-ass fruit flavored beers, damn you hippies.
Tried
on 17 Jun 2006
at 10:45
7.8/10
—
Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Pours bright amber into a shaker. Medium head quickly recedes leaving slight lacing. Roasted caramel notes. Medium bodied. Caramel with a slight hop finish.
Tried
on 09 Jun 2006
at 17:49
6.8/10
—
Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
2006 bottle on 5/21/06.
Fairly rapidly receding white head atop an unfiltered light golden-straw body. Light lacing at the the top, but it is not thorough.
Heavily estery nose shows pure, fresh, clean banana and tons of playful bubble gum. Mild citrus and some dashes of light peppery-dry notes. Creamed wheat takes over and the bubble gum just basks in the dryness as the moderate honey graininess stays strong throughout. Fairly high strength.
A bit more watery than the nose suggests, unfortunately, but nothing unclean. The strong wheat is there, smoothing things out, but unfortunately, the water is fairly prevalent, which really leads to the downfall of this otherwise well-malted and interestingly estery example. Plenty of supple pils malt and sweet wheat lead to a malty example, but the esters and light phenols dry it out and balance it on the end. Banana lingers on lightly with the creamed wheat. No alcohol noted.
Fairly rapidly receding white head atop an unfiltered light golden-straw body. Light lacing at the the top, but it is not thorough.
Heavily estery nose shows pure, fresh, clean banana and tons of playful bubble gum. Mild citrus and some dashes of light peppery-dry notes. Creamed wheat takes over and the bubble gum just basks in the dryness as the moderate honey graininess stays strong throughout. Fairly high strength.
A bit more watery than the nose suggests, unfortunately, but nothing unclean. The strong wheat is there, smoothing things out, but unfortunately, the water is fairly prevalent, which really leads to the downfall of this otherwise well-malted and interestingly estery example. Plenty of supple pils malt and sweet wheat lead to a malty example, but the esters and light phenols dry it out and balance it on the end. Banana lingers on lightly with the creamed wheat. No alcohol noted.
Tried
from Bottle
on 22 May 2006
at 01:16
6.5/10
—
Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 7
Pours a light hazy amber into a shaker. Microbubble head with good staying power, leaves lacing as it slowly recedes. Pine and citrus notes. Upfront sweet malt with a quick turn to puckering sour bitterness. Not really grapefruit, but a lasting bitter metallic finish.
Tried
on 16 May 2006
at 19:52
3.9/10
—
Appearance 4
Aroma 4
Flavor 4
Texture 4
Overall 3.5
Bottled on 3/13/06 and drunk on 4/23/06
Unripe apricot skin colored body is crystal clear, finely filtered and full of large, vigorous bubbles creating a foamy white head that is retained probably due to a mix of wheat being used and through so much carbonation, but mostly because of the carbonation, I would guess. It eventually fades to ring, leaving some spots of lace.
Aroma is dull, grainy-mineral-like, with metal (steel, copper, brass), some iron, chalk and a touch of blackberry essence. No substantial malt, not even very wheat-like. Just dull, bland and metallic, with some light corn-like notes.
The flavor is an insipidly sweet, unwavering blackberry sweetness, with some drying on the end, but with such heavily filtered a texture as to remove any substance or anything to comfort the palate. Grainy, dry malts taste of barley, toast, hay and no hops or yeast are noticeable. Blackberry flavor is moderately authentic, but just sticks out like a sore thumb, building up on the palate, with nothing else in the flavor to balance. Obnoxiously high, forced carbonation harries the palate and the beer ends watery and dull. Can’t drink more than a 3 or 4 sips.
Unripe apricot skin colored body is crystal clear, finely filtered and full of large, vigorous bubbles creating a foamy white head that is retained probably due to a mix of wheat being used and through so much carbonation, but mostly because of the carbonation, I would guess. It eventually fades to ring, leaving some spots of lace.
Aroma is dull, grainy-mineral-like, with metal (steel, copper, brass), some iron, chalk and a touch of blackberry essence. No substantial malt, not even very wheat-like. Just dull, bland and metallic, with some light corn-like notes.
The flavor is an insipidly sweet, unwavering blackberry sweetness, with some drying on the end, but with such heavily filtered a texture as to remove any substance or anything to comfort the palate. Grainy, dry malts taste of barley, toast, hay and no hops or yeast are noticeable. Blackberry flavor is moderately authentic, but just sticks out like a sore thumb, building up on the palate, with nothing else in the flavor to balance. Obnoxiously high, forced carbonation harries the palate and the beer ends watery and dull. Can’t drink more than a 3 or 4 sips.
Tried
from Bottle
on 24 Apr 2006
at 14:40
6/10
—
Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
2005 bottle consumed on 1/4/2006. Pours a clear honey-caramel with light strawberry rhubarb tinges and a fair amount of yellow-tinged white head that recedes slowly to a ring, leaving little clumps of lace. Aroma smells of honey fermentation biprodcuts (light sharpness, hints of dry fruits and dry biscuit-like notes). Or maybe I’m just making it all up and it’s just diacetyl. . . .Soft grassy-herbal hops and wildflowers. Vanilla and apple blossoms and just a touch of dry caramel in the back. The flavor is neither rich nor malty, actually quite attenuated, soft again, with more herbs and flower petals. Dry biscuits and brown bread, with more light honey, though just a touch. Dry citrus peels on the finish, with a little touch of gentle sugariness. Lively carbonation, watery texture (though not terribly so). No alcohol or yeast apparency.
Tried
from Bottle
on 08 Jan 2006
at 13:07