5.3% ABV
Review:
Appearance: Hazy golden ale with a white head that disapates rather quickly for a wheat beer.
Aroma: Wheat and lemon peel witha hint of watermelon rind.
Taste: Tart and buttery with lemon and dry apple cider notes. The bite is closer to soda than a wheat beer. There is also a little club soda saltiness.
Mouthfeel: Crisp, citrus rind astringency. Lingering dryness in mouth.
Side Note:
Overall:
WTF? This beer is certainly unique, but I would not say that it is great... I wouldn't even say that it's good. This is what you get when you are a lager based company that occasionally tries to make exciting ales but you are still scared to make any flavor bold. This beer is like a watered down version of something that might have been good in the hands of another brewer. It is like you took a Sierra Nevada Pale Ale, poured 1/4 of the bottle into a glass and then filled the rest of the glass with luke warm water. The flavor you would get from that abomination is approximately how much enjoyment you will receive from drinking this beer.
Sam Adams makes extremely drinkable lagers, but when they put out these seasonals that are outside their normal profile, it's embarassing. If this were a home brew, I would dump it down the drain before I would serve it to my friends.
NOTE TO JIM KOCH: quit trying to make ales taste like lagers! Keep your lagers, and just make some ales that taste like ales!
Grade: D
Barrel Man says,
" D is for 'dump it!'"
(This bottle purchased at Liquor Collection)
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