Anchor Summer Beer
Anchor Brewing Company

Anchor Summer BeerAnchor Summer Beer
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From:
Anchor Brewing Company
 
California, United States
Style:
American Pale Wheat Beer
ABV:
4.6%
Score:
77
Avg:
3.39 | pDev: 14.75%
Reviews:
604
Ratings:
1,307
Status:
Retired
Rated:
Nov 08, 2023
Added:
Jan 14, 2002
Wants:
  29
Gots:
  118
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Ratings by flagmantho:
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Reviewed by flagmantho from Washington

3.58/5  rDev +5.6%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.5
Poured from 12oz bottle into a pint glass. Bottled 4/26/2012.

Appearance: medium golden hue with a haze-free body and a nice, moderate effervescence. Head is a finger of pillowy white foam with a nice lace left on the glass. This reminds me much more of a kristalweizen than an APWA, but I like it nonetheless.

Smell: malty aroma which is lightly grainy and lightly wheaty. Pretty basic aroma, but it's very clean and seems well-crafted.

Taste: flavor is like the aroma, a basic, grainy, wheaty malt flavor. There is also, however, an interesting floral characteristic which could be a yeast by-product or possibly due to hopping. It's not bad, though the overall effect is a little perfumey for my taste. Still, not a bad hot-day refresher.

Mouthfeel: medium-light body with a well-integrated carbonation and a pretty nice creaminess. I like it.

Overall: a decently refreshing beer, if not a perfect one. The floral/perfumey character of the flavor just doesn't suit me, at least not in the intensity evident here.
Sep 13, 2012
More User Ratings:
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Reviewed by stevoj from Idaho

3.75/5  rDev +10.6%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
Can’t believe the low ratings, this is how a wheat ale should be done. Tight creamy head and clear golden body, light malt aroma, nice bready taste, velvety mouthfeel. Near perfectly crafted.
Nov 08, 2023
 
Rated: 3.19 by LesDewitt4beer from Minnesota

Nov 18, 2021
 
Rated: 3.28 by DOCRW from Kentucky

Jul 04, 2020
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Reviewed by REVZEB from Illinois

3.45/5  rDev +1.8%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.5
Somehow forgot to rate this one from years past, having again now and my feelings are the same. Not enough wheat in taste, and in its place is grass, and blonde malts, also has a soapy aftertaste with the orange and lemon. This is odd because the smell has a good bit of grains and citrus, go figure. Will admit the feel is very summertime, light, bright and crisp. Would only have on a hot day
Jan 26, 2019
 
Rated: 3.52 by 2beerdogs from California

Feb 04, 2018
 
Rated: 3.05 by dandy14 from Brazil

Dec 04, 2017
 
Rated: 4.01 by TooLucid from District of Columbia

Aug 07, 2017
 
Rated: 3 by fthegiants from California

May 26, 2017
 
Rated: 3.4 by clarknova from Germany

May 08, 2017
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Reviewed by Wasatch from Colorado

4/5  rDev +18%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
12 oz. Bottle

Pours a nice yellow color, nice carbonation, with a pretty nice small off-white head, which leaves some sticky lacing behind. The nose is hoppy, malty, yeasty, with some citrus. The taste is hoppy, malty, kinda yeasty, citrusy. Medium body, with a nice dry/bitter finish. Overall, a pretty tasty brew.
Apr 05, 2017
 
Rated: 3.24 by cliff1066 from Virginia

Feb 07, 2017
 
Rated: 3 by Edie from Oklahoma

Oct 26, 2016
 
Rated: 3.25 by MattMorin from Illinois

Aug 28, 2016
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Reviewed by NiceTaps from New Jersey

3.65/5  rDev +7.7%
look: 3 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
Drank right from the 12oz can.

Malt, wheat, yeast, lemon, some spice and hop bitterness. What's not to like? Not to mention that I drank 5 on a hot summer's eve at a neighbor's get-together and walked home with my wits in tact.

A decent summer refresher.
Aug 28, 2016
 
Rated: 3.34 by KStark from Canada (BC)

Aug 16, 2016
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Reviewed by rodbeermunch from Nevada

3.17/5  rDev -6.5%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3.25
A yellow wheat beer that shows off its haze below a 3/5" white head. Solid retention. Aroma was grainy wheat, lemon.

Taste added to those and threw in some spice rack coriander, more lemon, substantial bitterness for style. Packs a good amount of flavor into a lighter bodied brew.
Jun 10, 2016
 
Rated: 3.49 by scaryguy4u

May 29, 2016
 
Rated: 3.13 by AD17 from New Jersey

Apr 26, 2016
 
Rated: 3.75 by Brandon632 from North Carolina

Mar 27, 2016
Anchor Summer Beer from Anchor Brewing Company
Beer rating: 77 out of 100 with 1307 ratings