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One-Eyed Pike
Brainerd Lakes Brewery
- From:
- Brainerd Lakes Brewery
- Minnesota, United States
- Style:
- American Pale Wheat Beer
- ABV:
- 5.75%
- Score:
- 72
- Avg:
- 2.93 | pDev: 14.33%
- Reviews:
- 19
- Ratings:
- Status:
- Active
- Rated:
- Feb 25, 2016
- Added:
- Aug 25, 2010
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 3
No description / notes.
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Ratings by gatornation:
Reviewed by gatornation from Arizona
2.88/5 rDev -1.7%
look: 3 | smell: 2.5 | taste: 3 | feel: 3 | overall: 3
2.88/5 rDev -1.7%
look: 3 | smell: 2.5 | taste: 3 | feel: 3 | overall: 3
12 oz bottle from a mix sixer
A= pours a crystal clear yellow color with a fresh white head
S-was biscuit malts and lemon some wet hay
T- was slight sour lemon grass and wheat with malt biscuits a touch of hops
M- was crisp and carbonated tart and refreshing and a little sour with a lemon funk
O- i will say it was refreshing and tart its drinkable, would never buy a sixer but would drink this again as a single
Apr 27, 2012A= pours a crystal clear yellow color with a fresh white head
S-was biscuit malts and lemon some wet hay
T- was slight sour lemon grass and wheat with malt biscuits a touch of hops
M- was crisp and carbonated tart and refreshing and a little sour with a lemon funk
O- i will say it was refreshing and tart its drinkable, would never buy a sixer but would drink this again as a single
More User Ratings:
Reviewed by ParnellJoseph1138 from Minnesota
2.82/5 rDev -3.8%
look: 3.25 | smell: 3 | taste: 2.75 | feel: 2.5 | overall: 2.75
2.82/5 rDev -3.8%
look: 3.25 | smell: 3 | taste: 2.75 | feel: 2.5 | overall: 2.75
A-A light blond appearance and a small thin head.
S-A light lemon aroma and hint of malt.
T-Easy drinking summer beer, but it lacks character. You get a tinge of bready malt, but the lemony citrus flavor is the strongest element. Has a certain sweetness. Finishes clean but unremarkable.
M-Moderately carbonated and offers a mild presence.
O-So many other beers in this category do a better job. While light and refreshing, it mid pack entry into this field.
Jun 26, 2015S-A light lemon aroma and hint of malt.
T-Easy drinking summer beer, but it lacks character. You get a tinge of bready malt, but the lemony citrus flavor is the strongest element. Has a certain sweetness. Finishes clean but unremarkable.
M-Moderately carbonated and offers a mild presence.
O-So many other beers in this category do a better job. While light and refreshing, it mid pack entry into this field.
Reviewed by biboergosum from Canada (AB)
2.74/5 rDev -6.5%
look: 3.5 | smell: 2.5 | taste: 2.75 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 2.5
2.74/5 rDev -6.5%
look: 3.5 | smell: 2.5 | taste: 2.75 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 2.5
355ml bottle at Pizza Brew in Calgary. This version is made by Minhas.
This beer pours a clear, medium copper amber hue, with one fat finger of puffy, frothy, and somewhat bubbly bone-white head, which leaves some streaky arc-weld lace around the glass as it quickly bleeds off.
It smells of bready, sugary pale and caramel malt, plastic phenols, stale apple juice, and weak earthy, musty hops. The taste is more bready, yeasty, and faintly crackery pale and wheaty malt, muddled drupe fruit, and a hint of melted plastic.
The carbonation is fairly understated, hardly a tic or spasm of bubbles to be had, the body an adequate medium weight, and generally smooth, a slight cloyingness building as it warms. It finishes off-dry, the mixed cereal grain sweetness persisting, amongst the essence of the plastic container that the aforementioned juice once inhabited.
For Minhas, this is actually more or less palatable - for the style, however, it's pretty low on appreciable flavour - the wheat just doesn't seem to be there, replaced instead by a generic sugary character, and of course, some manifestation of that cut corner-laden house, um, 'infusion', let's call it this time.
Jun 14, 2014This beer pours a clear, medium copper amber hue, with one fat finger of puffy, frothy, and somewhat bubbly bone-white head, which leaves some streaky arc-weld lace around the glass as it quickly bleeds off.
It smells of bready, sugary pale and caramel malt, plastic phenols, stale apple juice, and weak earthy, musty hops. The taste is more bready, yeasty, and faintly crackery pale and wheaty malt, muddled drupe fruit, and a hint of melted plastic.
The carbonation is fairly understated, hardly a tic or spasm of bubbles to be had, the body an adequate medium weight, and generally smooth, a slight cloyingness building as it warms. It finishes off-dry, the mixed cereal grain sweetness persisting, amongst the essence of the plastic container that the aforementioned juice once inhabited.
For Minhas, this is actually more or less palatable - for the style, however, it's pretty low on appreciable flavour - the wheat just doesn't seem to be there, replaced instead by a generic sugary character, and of course, some manifestation of that cut corner-laden house, um, 'infusion', let's call it this time.
Reviewed by LXIXME from New Mexico
2.72/5 rDev -7.2%
look: 3.5 | smell: 2.75 | taste: 2.5 | feel: 3 | overall: 2.75
2.72/5 rDev -7.2%
look: 3.5 | smell: 2.75 | taste: 2.5 | feel: 3 | overall: 2.75
Medium sized off white head slowly settles to a 1/4" frothy layering atop a clear light honey golden colored beer.
A light wheat grain malt aroma that almost seems to have a musky edge to it.
Light lemony edge to a light grain malt tasting beer.
A light dryish aftertaste with a hint of lemon hanging around with this lighter bodied beer.
To light on taste for me, but that's just me, lighter beer drinkers might find it tasty.
Sep 29, 2013A light wheat grain malt aroma that almost seems to have a musky edge to it.
Light lemony edge to a light grain malt tasting beer.
A light dryish aftertaste with a hint of lemon hanging around with this lighter bodied beer.
To light on taste for me, but that's just me, lighter beer drinkers might find it tasty.
Reviewed by zeff80 from Missouri
3.29/5 rDev +12.3%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.25
3.29/5 rDev +12.3%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.25
A - Poured a clear, orange/gold color with a one-finger, white head of foam. It left thin trails of lace.
S - Some wheat and grasses.
T - Cracked wheat, a touch of citrus and a grassy bitterness.
M - Crisp, sharp and smooth. A light bodied ale.
O - This is an okay wheat beer. I'd like to try something else from Brainerd Lakes.
Jan 29, 2013S - Some wheat and grasses.
T - Cracked wheat, a touch of citrus and a grassy bitterness.
M - Crisp, sharp and smooth. A light bodied ale.
O - This is an okay wheat beer. I'd like to try something else from Brainerd Lakes.
Reviewed by irrgalaxy from Alaska
2.22/5 rDev -24.2%
look: 2 | smell: 2.5 | taste: 2 | feel: 3 | overall: 2
2.22/5 rDev -24.2%
look: 2 | smell: 2.5 | taste: 2 | feel: 3 | overall: 2
Poured from screwtop bottle into pint glass. Light yellow color and very little head - only a few bubbles at the very edges of the glass a minute after pouring. Smells are very muted - only a faint odor of wheat, but other than that not much is coming off. Stale aftertaste, with grassy notes. A medium-alcohol beer, but it comes across as weaker and more like a standard macrobrew. Bought it largely for the name and logo, but I wouldn't have it again - there's just no strong or good flavors there, and there are dozens of better wheat beers to be found in the Midwest.
Nov 27, 2012
One-Eyed Pike from Brainerd Lakes Brewery
Beer rating:
72 out of
100 with
44 ratings
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