As West Coast foe to New York’s Heartland Brewery, mild dark lager offers freshly harvested husked wheat dryness to distant unripe orange bittering. An understated, casual hefeweizen suited to lighter tastes.

Give brewer credit for expanding Japan’s desire to experiment outside the lines of typical rice-wheat-barley-based pilsners and lagers. Spiced-up crystal malt elegance given orange rind-embittered apricot-peach resonance. Increasingly dry grape-wined white ale contrasts candied coriander-powdered sweetness reminiscent of raspy Belgian ale. Inconspicuously wheat-based, though cork-like citric tartness strengthens alcohol acerbity.

Embarrassingly weak unscented ‘ale’ with dry malt tangent, dull fruitiness, and biscuit-y barley ruse as indistinguishable as its inefficient wheat essence. The second worst Michelob off-shoot: weak, watery, acidic, and insulting.

Bland straw-hued witbier (with toasting white-haired Mom on label) lacks expectant yellow-fruited hefeweizen nature. Grassy Saaz hop astringency, stifling horse blanket-hay-buckwheat earthiness, and herbal white-peppered deficiency disrupt tart ginger-coriander illusions.

Sweetish pale-hazed German-styled wheat beer with soft lemony orange insistence, clove overtures, and bubblegum hints mellowing polite hop fizz to delicately integrated grain bottom underlining arid citric finish. Try with a lemon.

Cloudy-hued, aromatically sweet, softly carbonated, explosively hopped German wheat lacks spicy yellow-fruited zest, zippy alcohol luster, and frothy spume of top grade weizens. Light, spry crossover for mainstream pilsner and lager fans.

Unfiltered straw-hazed German-styled wheat entrusts punctual orange-soured grapefruit tang to doughy bread bottom, gaining banana-clove insistence by bubblegum finish. Autumnal leafy earthiness speckles citric acidity.

Banana-dried clove-spicing and wheat wafer sweetness counter lemon-soured tartness by bitter yellow-fruited finish. Tangier, if lighter, choice than comparable Tuchers Helles Hefe Weizen.

Explosive carbolic overload of fluffy white-headed russet-bodied German weiss leaves clinging Brussels lace along glass. Cracked wheat spine straggles orange peeled banana-clove illusions, but watery texture flattens out its true character, ruining smattered butterscotch, prune, and vanilla notes.

Minor cloudiness invades flat, chartreuse, Bavarian-hopped half-wheat knockoff. Mild banana-bubblegum odor fades to metallic shrill as lemon-soured grapefruit snippet reaches wheat-cracked sourdough midst. Candied orange caress and unexpected licorice lament hidden beneath. Dreary peculiarity finds only middling success.

Flowery hops, sour yeast, and silky carbonation dominate wheat presence two to one before delicate clove-nutmeg-allspice adjuncts invigorate mildly sweet lemony peach finish for truly distinct cloudy blonde German knockoff. Brewery defunct: 2007.

Off-putting cooked veggie nose never disrupts zesty orange-grapefruit tartness and tingly coriander spicing of medium-bodied golden-paled wheat ale. Peppery lemongrass nip underscores impending sour-candied lemon and green raisin illusions.