Though label’s picturesque bears on a brightly colored windowpane in a grapevine setting is a hoot, this is ultimately ineffective as either wheat ale or crossover blackberry-fermented fruity ale. Washed-out phenolic citrus astringency and solvent-like acidity diminish expectations of palest club soda-like spritzer. It simply doesn’t deliver what’s promised.

After swigging this astringent orange rind-embittered off-dry ‘wheat,’ you’d swear it was a mislabeled pale ale. Interfering bland tartness and sour acidity lead to its demise, losing candied honey undercurrent in the shuffle.

Fizzy hazy golden bottle conditioned dry wheat beer retains sour lemony orange tartness as banana-pineapple-quince illusions caress corky parch. As citric finish recedes, bleached-out honeyed barley roast advances. Brewery defunct: 2006.

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.

Distant cereal grain, roasted barley, and toasted wheat template laminates irksome phenol hop fizz of strident ‘crystal wheat ale’ for disappointingly sketchy brew.

Dank sour citrus aroma, bland watery texture, unspecific fruity tartness, and sharp hop coarseness make up the mainstream appeal of this not so ‘tricky’ tonic.

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.

Ticklish hop fizz delicately underscores water-softened chaff wheat profile of straw-hued light body. Grassy mouthfeel permeates tempered peat-backed oats nuance, casual grain bitterness, and slight banana snip, but uninvolved finish fades to sweet pilsner-like oblivion.

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.

Tepid honey essence never fully realized; cloying nature annoys; clean water texture deteriorates and unassuming 5.2% alcohol content wavers. Plus, sweet malt finish subsides too quickly.

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.

Off-dry golden-hazed wheat ale retains pallid honeyed wheat base too frail to lift slack herbal spicing, soiled vegetal nature, and butterscotch candied nicety.