Pete's Wicked Strawberry Blonde
Pete's Brewing Company

Pete's Wicked Strawberry BlondePete's Wicked Strawberry Blonde
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From:
Pete's Brewing Company
 
Texas, United States
Style:
Fruit and Field Beer
ABV:
5%
Score:
69
Avg:
2.94 | pDev: 21.77%
Reviews:
271
Ratings:
372
Status:
Retired
Rated:
Mar 02, 2023
Added:
Sep 09, 2001
Wants:
  3
Gots:
  13
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Ratings by weatherdog:
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Reviewed by weatherdog from Illinois

2.77/5  rDev -5.8%
look: 2.5 | smell: 3 | taste: 2.5 | feel: 3 | overall: 3
12oz bottle poured into a nonic pint glass

The beer pours a clear golden honey amber with a quick dying one fingered white head. After the pour the beer looks relatively lifeless in the glass, similar to an apple juice. The color alone shows that real fruit was not used in this beer.

The smell is pretty sweet with a noticeable strawberry like aroma. It's similar to a strawberry hard candy to me. It's pretty one dimensional and dull.

The strawberry in the aroma doesn't follow to the taste as much except for a sweet finish. The flavor starts off very bland with a little graininess, maybe corn. The strawberry flavor comes through in the finish but is much more muted than I would have thought. For a beer designed like this a little more fruit flavor would have been complimentary.

The label denotes this beer as a lager. The mouthfeel and finish seemed out of place to me. It was pretty full bodied lacking any sort of clean and crispness. The drinkability was decent. A fairly neutral unoffensive beer which seems like a acceptable substitute to BMC beers during a picnic where no other options present themselves.
Aug 04, 2010
More User Ratings:
 
Rated: 2.77 by digitalflood from New York

Mar 02, 2023
 
Rated: 2.92 by TP2MSU from Michigan

Apr 23, 2022
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Reviewed by rodbeermunch from Nevada

2.75/5  rDev -6.5%
look: 2.75 | smell: 2.75 | taste: 2.75 | feel: 2.75 | overall: 2.75
Another retired review from Pete's, this was their most successful variant, second only to the flagship Wicked Ale.

Poured a light lemonade shandy like appearance, lacking clarity, this was one of the first beers that didn't look like "beer" in my youth as much as the standard yellow stuff at the time, it had a mild pink hue to it and a smaller head. The aroma had strawberry like presence coupled with some grain feels.

Taste was one of the sweetest beers I ever had at the time. Light blonde ale like base here. Pumped up carbonation it seemed relative to the lack of beercentric (non adjunct) ingredients. This was the first beer that took on the lady might dig it notion of beer. It was something that I could still drink if I had to, but was better off in the cooler as something for someone else, like the beginnings of what it felt like to be a beer DJ (without living in a basement).

Bottom line, this didn't impress as a fruit beer, taste or aroma, and given the notorious brewing problems with real strawberries, I doubt that is what was used.
Mar 03, 2020
 
Rated: 3.25 by Getalegup from Texas

Jun 15, 2014
 
Rated: 3 by chrishiker1409 from New York

Jun 13, 2014
 
Rated: 3 by KevMo84 from California

Jun 07, 2014
 
Rated: 5 by babyak75 from Washington

May 02, 2014
 
Rated: 2.5 by Durandal_777 from Pennsylvania

Apr 30, 2014
 
Rated: 2.75 by buzzy from Pennsylvania

Mar 13, 2014
 
Rated: 2.75 by harpus from Alabama

Mar 05, 2014
 
Rated: 2.5 by thomseye from Michigan

Feb 20, 2014
 
Rated: 3 by Griffith from Connecticut

Jan 27, 2014
 
Rated: 3 by drbenderdo from Michigan

Jan 03, 2014
 
Rated: 2.75 by jaydoc from Kansas

Dec 29, 2013
 
Rated: 3.5 by SamAdams327 from Indiana

Dec 09, 2013
 
Rated: 3.25 by LXIXME from New Mexico

Dec 01, 2013
 
Rated: 3.25 by Enriquehopnog from Massachusetts

Nov 22, 2013
 
Rated: 2.5 by SingularWalker from Georgia

Nov 22, 2013
 
Rated: 3 by sneezye from Oklahoma

Nov 14, 2013
Pete's Wicked Strawberry Blonde from Pete's Brewing Company
Beer rating: 69 out of 100 with 372 ratings