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Tag Archives: wheat ale
TOX ERGOT
Summery American wheat beer with “coriander and citrus” and puffy white head embraces sunshiny lemon zesting and dried mandarin orange snip above pallid white wheat bed. Lemon juice continuance brings mild acidity and candied lemon tartness adds slight mouth pucker, but coriander spicing lacks.
PINELANDS SLIGHTLY SUNBURNT WHEAT W/ BLACKBERRY & HIBISCUS
Fuzzy lemon spritz blurs blackberry adjunct and salty juniper-tipped hibiscus flowering as brisk piney citric IPA-like bittering gathers above delicate white wheat base. Crisply clean but a tad nebulous stylistically.
VAULT WHEAT PALE ALE
Lemony orange pith spritz scurries thru brisk, but nondescript, wheat ale. Mild citrus spray picks up peachy nips and phenol hop astringency that interrupts fruity flavoring over crackery white wheat base.
GHOST HARBOR BLAIR’S FALL WHEAT ALE
Straight-ahead American wheat ale less involving than its German hefe or Belgian wit counterparts. Complacent orange-dried lemon oiling and peppery phenolic sudsiness reach delicate cracked wheat base, picking up sour apple, unripe banana and Bosc pear snips.
COASTAL BREW WORKS FREISING TIDE BAVARIAN STYLE HEFEWEIZEN
Soured lemony orange effervescence and dry white wheat base way more insistent than hefe-related banana/clove sweetness as white peppered herbage stays laidback for flagship offering. Closer to a slightly rustic grain-embedded American wheat ale.
YOUNG VETERANS PINEAPPLE GRENADE
On tap at 3 Knots Taphouse – Onancock, spritzy seltzer-like lemon liming prickles adjunctive pineapple pureed zesting as well as mild guava, green grape and gooseberry tartness over dry cracked wheat base of aluminum yellowed moderation.
SAMUEL ADAMS SUMMER ALE (2022)
Straightforward summertime sessionability sashays sunshiny lemon-limed yellow grapefruit spritz, hushed grains of paradise snag and teasing orange peel twist over dry wheat-strawed pale malt wisp. Easygoing lightweight nonchalance. 2024 version gained a lemon-limed shandy sweetness and Pez-candied grains of paradise tartness in a Hallertau/ Noble hop setting.
LOGSDON DIVISION STREET WHEAT ALE
On tap at Ambulance, modest dry-hopped cracked wheat entry picks up salty lemon spree and wispy floral-spiced herbage but may lack stylish specificity.
BELL’S RIND OVER MATTER WHEAT ALE
On tap at Growler & Gill, ‘crushable’ dry Oberon-like wheat ale retains slightly bitter lemony orange rind zesting, limey cologne musk and herbal lemongrass wisp for bright citric-spiced moderation.
JERSEY GIRL ELDER MAGIC WHEAT BEER
On tap at Taphouse Grille – Wayne, nearly cloy lemon-sugared elderberry tartness contrasts slightly soured white wine esters, picking up a vodka-nipped orange twist over sweet cereal wheat base for ancient 12th century ElderLemonWeizen recipe revisited.
INDUSTRIAL ARTS K THX WHEAT ALE
Peculiarities abound for lemon-clad sour wheat ale with extremely tart cranberry-pureed sweet potato adjunct. Sour creamed potato flaking diminishes fast as green grape tannins add vinous contrast to oncoming pink lemonade tang leveling off finishing cranberry souring.