Peaceful easy lightweight with unassuming essence retains slightest hop bitterness lingering below husked grain mesh. Serve to those who dislike fizzy wine-like wheat ales to bridge gap for them. Brewery defunct: circa 2004.
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FULL SAIL HANGTIME ALE
MAGIC HAT HOCUS POCUS ALE
SARANAC POMEGRANATE WHEAT
Likable ’07 limited edition gold-hazed amber uses pomegranate juice as catalyst to bring out slyly bittersweet lemony blueberry-boysenberry-juniper tartness above wheat-cracked honeyed oats spine. Ripe peach-apricot-cherry tang and juicy orange-tangerine pliability add auxiliary luster. Arguably as fine as Shmaltz’s He’brew Pomegranate Ale tasted one week before.
WILLOUGHBY WHEAT
(GOUDENBOOM) BLANCHE DE BRUGES WHITE WHEAT
Pale-clouded moderate-bodied white-wined wheat ale checks in with immediate clove-coriander spicing above fluctuant crystal malt assertion. Fizzy dry hop bittering overrides lemony orange-peach tartness. Light and fluffy for Belgian, but brisk quinine water crispness usurps bland finish while half-affirming tertiary tropical fruitiness.
GEORGE KILLIAN’S WILD HONEY
MAGIC HAT ODD NOTION HONEY ALE
Enigmatic winter-seasoned braggot-mead combination pairs enticing honeyed heather-jasmine sweetness with less expressive orange-peeled peach-tangerine tang. Temporal herbal-spiced chamomile tea bitterness and withered grassy bark-twig dryness counter maple-sapped malted wheat spine. Off-putting vegetal acridity and dank metallic sear nearly ruin lemony white wine bid.
(SHIPYARD) BATTLEGROUND ALE
(YELLOW ROSE) BUFFALO BUTT
BLUE MOON BELGIAN WHITE WHEAT ALE
Arguably the best macro brew marketed in the States, bringing forth a delightfully moderate Belgian-styled yeast strain that’s undeniably indelible and tantalizingly idiosyncratic. Bright citrus nose snuggles delicate coriander-spiced lemon and orange peel spritz, assuring hop-spiced ale its ephemeral quality. Lilting honeyed yeast sweetness may lack syrupy thickness, but tart white-wined green grape esters prove ample above wispy wheat spine. Warning: inferior canned version sucks shit – a phenolic untasteful mess with no discernible original flavor.
HEARTLAND HARVEST WHEAT BEER
Moderately bitter straw-hued autumnal harvester exudes freshly cut wheat chaff palate and mowed grass backdrop, finishing soapier and flatter than most in its class. Though lacking richness, tangy orange rind spell woos subdued grassy hop wisp. Serve with lemon wedge. Mix with pineapple juice for ‘Maui Wowie.’