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Wild Oats Series No. 13 - Weiss O'Lantern
Beau's All Natural Brewing Company
- From:
- Beau's All Natural Brewing Company
- Ontario, Canada
- Style:
- Pumpkin Beer
- ABV:
- 5.6%
- Score:
- 85
- Avg:
- 3.74 | pDev: 9.63%
- Reviews:
- 24
- Ratings:
- Status:
- Active
- Rated:
- Mar 29, 2018
- Added:
- Oct 03, 2011
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 5
Weiss O'Lantern is a weiss (white) beer brewed with pumpkin. Orange-hued with a tall creamy head, the pumpkin, citrus fruit, and spice flavours shine through a full wheat body. The finish is lively, zippy, and darn refreshing!
17 IBU
17 IBU
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Ratings by KaraBoBeera:
Rated by KaraBoBeera from Canada (AB)
3.56/5 rDev -4.8%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
Sep 21, 2015
3.56/5 rDev -4.8%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
Sep 21, 2015
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Reviewed by cyrenaica from Canada (ON)
3.12/5 rDev -16.6%
look: 3 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3 | feel: 3 | overall: 3
3.12/5 rDev -16.6%
look: 3 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3 | feel: 3 | overall: 3
600ml bottle
5.6% ABV
King/Spadina LCBO Outlet (Toronto, Ontario, Canada)
October 5, 2012
$7.75
The beer pours a hazy orange-gold with a thin tan head, definitely reminiscent of an orange coloured wheat beer. The aroma is pumpkin, spices, and wheat. The mouthfeel is medium bodied with medium carbonation. The flavour is more wheat and spices than pumpkin. While the first couple of Beau’s beers I tried were very good, the others haven’t lived up to the Ontario hype, certainly not at their price point.
Mar 29, 20185.6% ABV
King/Spadina LCBO Outlet (Toronto, Ontario, Canada)
October 5, 2012
$7.75
The beer pours a hazy orange-gold with a thin tan head, definitely reminiscent of an orange coloured wheat beer. The aroma is pumpkin, spices, and wheat. The mouthfeel is medium bodied with medium carbonation. The flavour is more wheat and spices than pumpkin. While the first couple of Beau’s beers I tried were very good, the others haven’t lived up to the Ontario hype, certainly not at their price point.
Reviewed by tomghiley from Canada (ON)
2.25/5 rDev -39.8%
look: 2.25 | smell: 2.25 | taste: 2.25 | feel: 2.25 | overall: 2.25
2.25/5 rDev -39.8%
look: 2.25 | smell: 2.25 | taste: 2.25 | feel: 2.25 | overall: 2.25
People seem to love Beau's because they have great marketing, do they make bad beers? Rarely, do they make great beers? Rarely. I love Kissmeyer Nordic Pale Ale, I love the St Luke's Verse gruit, but here's the problem, a lot of their other beers use a lot of the same ingredients as their flagship beer, lug tread, so to be completely honest, I have had this several times, more often than not, it just tastes nearly identical to lug tread, occasionally I've been able to faintly taste pumpkin, but never has it come remotely close to tasting or feeling or looking like a Weiss beer. This one to me is an epic failure, not a bad beer, just does not deliver what it's saying it does
Apr 21, 2016Reviewed by Tilly from Kentucky
3.92/5 rDev +4.8%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 4
3.92/5 rDev +4.8%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 4
P: Gold, orange pour with a slight beige head which dissipates quick but leaves great to lacing.
A: Clove, ginger, fresh bread malt, spice and slightly pumpkin.
T: Ginger, clove, spice, malt, spice and only a slight pumpkin.
M: Well balanced, medium body, some sweet, slight bitterness,
O: Absolutely great beer from Beau's. Organic? Yeah baby, yeah!
Oct 29, 2015A: Clove, ginger, fresh bread malt, spice and slightly pumpkin.
T: Ginger, clove, spice, malt, spice and only a slight pumpkin.
M: Well balanced, medium body, some sweet, slight bitterness,
O: Absolutely great beer from Beau's. Organic? Yeah baby, yeah!
Reviewed by thehyperduck from Canada (ON)
3.87/5 rDev +3.5%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
3.87/5 rDev +3.5%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
600 mL bottle from the LCBO; one of four different labels included in their 2015 Oktoberfest mix pack. Bottled Aug 28 2015 and served slightly chilled.
Pours a translucent golden-orange colour, topped off with a full inch of creamy, white-coloured head. It remains seated in place for a little under five minutes, slowly receding until only a wide, foamy collar and bubbly, frothy cap remain. Good lacing; this is a fine-looking ale. Moderately spicy on the nose, with a steady undercurrent of yeastiness. Clove and ginger are detectable, but I am not getting much cinnamon; beyond that, the aroma consists largely of a wheaty, bready malt backbone supported by banana, orangepeel and some faint, gourdy pumpkin.
Well-made, though it's reminding me much more of a wit than a pumpkin beer. A clean, bready wheat malt sweetness overlaps with flavours of banana, pumpkin flesh and orangepeel. The spice/yeast take full control in the latter half of the sip; clove and ginger are the big ones, with hints of earthy cinnamon arriving in time for the aftertaste. Not exactly dry at the finish, but it does have some astringent qualities. Medium-light in body, with aggressive carbonation levels that saturate the palate with a sheet of prickly bubbles. It's almost a little *too* lively, but I can't gripe too much because it provides a nice complement to the spicy finish. Quite quaffable, and a pretty agreeable beer all around.
Final Grade: 3.87, a B+. Beau's' Weiss O'Lantern is a solid product, though as a pumpkin beer I don't think I'd consider it a particularly emblematic example. If you're looking for pumpkin pie spice, you'll want to start elsewhere - this beer is very much more along the lines of a weiss/Belgian white ale. I would not consider that a bad thing, though, as it is actually a very solid interpretation of a witbier. One of the better Beau's products I've had this year, and something that I would return to in the future.
Oct 16, 2015Pours a translucent golden-orange colour, topped off with a full inch of creamy, white-coloured head. It remains seated in place for a little under five minutes, slowly receding until only a wide, foamy collar and bubbly, frothy cap remain. Good lacing; this is a fine-looking ale. Moderately spicy on the nose, with a steady undercurrent of yeastiness. Clove and ginger are detectable, but I am not getting much cinnamon; beyond that, the aroma consists largely of a wheaty, bready malt backbone supported by banana, orangepeel and some faint, gourdy pumpkin.
Well-made, though it's reminding me much more of a wit than a pumpkin beer. A clean, bready wheat malt sweetness overlaps with flavours of banana, pumpkin flesh and orangepeel. The spice/yeast take full control in the latter half of the sip; clove and ginger are the big ones, with hints of earthy cinnamon arriving in time for the aftertaste. Not exactly dry at the finish, but it does have some astringent qualities. Medium-light in body, with aggressive carbonation levels that saturate the palate with a sheet of prickly bubbles. It's almost a little *too* lively, but I can't gripe too much because it provides a nice complement to the spicy finish. Quite quaffable, and a pretty agreeable beer all around.
Final Grade: 3.87, a B+. Beau's' Weiss O'Lantern is a solid product, though as a pumpkin beer I don't think I'd consider it a particularly emblematic example. If you're looking for pumpkin pie spice, you'll want to start elsewhere - this beer is very much more along the lines of a weiss/Belgian white ale. I would not consider that a bad thing, though, as it is actually a very solid interpretation of a witbier. One of the better Beau's products I've had this year, and something that I would return to in the future.
Reviewed by Phyl21ca from Canada (QC)
3.73/5 rDev -0.3%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.75
3.73/5 rDev -0.3%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.75
Bottle: Poured a clear bright orangey color ale with a large foamy head with OK retention and minimal lacing. Aroma of cinnamon and light cloves is well balanced with the wheat malt notes. Taste is a well balance mix between some cinnamon, light clovers, sweet wheat malt notes and light pumpkin notes. Body is about average with good carbonation. Easy drinking with just enough complexity.
Sep 28, 2015Reviewed by CanadianBacon from Canada (QC)
3.89/5 rDev +4%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.25
3.89/5 rDev +4%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.25
Part of the Beaus 2015 Oktoberfest pack. Comes in a 600 ml bottle with a cool scarcrow design on the front.
Appearance - Pours a deep hazy gold with orange hues visable. a mountainous off white creamy head and decent carbonation.
Aroma - the first thing i smelled was pumpkin followed by clove wheat spice and some citrus.
Taste - Wheat zest followed by a pumpkin undertone, lots of peppery spice some citrus fruits. spice follows the beer down your throat.
Mouth feel - just a hint of cream feeling, medium body with high carbonation.
Overall - This is a rather good beer, I like wheat beers to begin with and the pumpkin twist was a welcome change. With that said this will probably be the only glass I ever drink. I've had the same problem with all this pack so far. Its not that they're not good, they are but at 6$ per bottle I dont think its that good and I can get better for cheaper.
Sep 22, 2015Appearance - Pours a deep hazy gold with orange hues visable. a mountainous off white creamy head and decent carbonation.
Aroma - the first thing i smelled was pumpkin followed by clove wheat spice and some citrus.
Taste - Wheat zest followed by a pumpkin undertone, lots of peppery spice some citrus fruits. spice follows the beer down your throat.
Mouth feel - just a hint of cream feeling, medium body with high carbonation.
Overall - This is a rather good beer, I like wheat beers to begin with and the pumpkin twist was a welcome change. With that said this will probably be the only glass I ever drink. I've had the same problem with all this pack so far. Its not that they're not good, they are but at 6$ per bottle I dont think its that good and I can get better for cheaper.
Wild Oats Series No. 13 - Weiss O'Lantern from Beau's All Natural Brewing Company
Beer rating:
85 out of
100 with
48 ratings
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