Pureed raspberry, cranberry and cherry tartness consumes mildly creamed fruited wheat ale. Soda-like fizz perks up berry-cherry frontage as well as subsidiary cucumber-watered watermelon, pomegranate and strawberry rhubarb tease.
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SLY FOX ALEX’S LEMON WHEAT
On tap at Andy’s Corner Bar, cheap lemonade sugaring rises above barren white wheat base. Light lemon-limed carbolic spritz picks up herbal snip. An unrealized soda-like summertime beverage.
SOUTHERN TIER LEMON DROP SUN WHEAT
On tap at Seven Lakes Station, zesty summertime moderation attaches tart lemondrop hops to brisk lemon-limed yellow grapefruit juicing, mild floral-daubed wood tones and herbal lemongrass musk above mild barley-wheat base. Lemon luster persists.
DURANGO BLUEBERRY WHEAT
JACK’S ABBY BLOOD ORANGE WHEAT
On tap at Growler & Gill, tart blood orange adjunct perks up radler-styled light lager. Mildly spiced lemon spritz as well as peach-pitted pink grapefruit, mandarin orange and tangelo illusions flutter by baked breaded white wheat backbone. Juicy blood orange template stays subtle yet continuous.
OWL’S BREW RADLER THE BLONDIE BEER & TEA
Tart amber brown-hazed lemonade/ wheat ale hybrid blended with subtle English black tea earthiness spreads botanical citrus-juiced agave nectar all over heavily sugared malt syruping. By the finish, eye-squinting lemon lime juicing recedes to Orangina-like mandarin orange zestiness.
BENT WATER PEARL WHEAT ALE
PANTHER ISLAND ALLERGEEZ
Easygoing unfiltered wheat ale brewed with honey, chamomile flowers and rose hips gains perfume-spiced citrus zestiness. Fine eclectic liquid cure for allergies.
TUPPS AMERICAN WHEAT WITH HONEY
On tap at Taverna Rossa, middling wheat ale drips sweet and sour honey adjunct over delicate grassy-hopped yellow fruiting and cream ale-like corn grits(?). Mild brown tea-like musk and raw-grained malt dryness relegated.
BRECKENRIDGE SNOW GLARE HOPPY WHEAT
On tap at Biggie’s, lush yellow grapefruit tang embittered above malted wheat sugaring. Floral citrus-spiced sweetness and candied orange-tangerine-pineapple conflux sour lemon-lime licks for tropical medium-bodied wheat ale. As crisply refreshing as its label.
GUINNESS IRISH WHEAT
Crisp dry wheat moderation lets spritzy orange zest contrast mild lemon musk alongside subtle banana-clove sweetness. Pasty glass-sugared honey wheat malting counters dank phenol hop bittering beneath the surface. An OK blend of wheat ale and hefeweizen stylings.
SEA DOG SUNFISH WHEAT ALE
Pleasingly lacquered peach sweetness gains zesty pink and yellow grapefruit tartness over cardboardy sugar-glassed wheat malts. Latent dried apricot and fig tones reinforce peachy entry. An accessible moderation for fruit beer lovers.