Crystal Wheat Ale
Portland Brewing Company
- From:
- Portland Brewing Company
- Oregon, United States
- Style:
- American Pale Wheat Beer
- ABV:
- 5.3%
- Score:
- +8 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.12 | pDev: 0.32%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 2
- Status:
- Retired
- Rated:
- Feb 02, 2009
- Added:
- Jul 17, 2008
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
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Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by whynot44 from Missouri
3.13/5 rDev +0.3%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3 | taste: 3 | feel: 3 | overall: 3.5
3.13/5 rDev +0.3%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3 | taste: 3 | feel: 3 | overall: 3.5
Clear coppery gold color with a modest white head that disipates fairly quickly.
Mild bready aroma with just a hint of yeast and bananas.
The taste is wheat with a bit of floral hops and a somewhat tart, carbonic or lactic aftertaste.
Light bodied, drinkable and fairly refreshing.
Feb 02, 2009Mild bready aroma with just a hint of yeast and bananas.
The taste is wheat with a bit of floral hops and a somewhat tart, carbonic or lactic aftertaste.
Light bodied, drinkable and fairly refreshing.
Reviewed by RedDiamond from Oregon
3.11/5 rDev -0.3%
look: 4 | smell: 3 | taste: 3 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3
3.11/5 rDev -0.3%
look: 4 | smell: 3 | taste: 3 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3
At the MacTarnahan's Taproom they serve Crystal in a tall, shapely, yet resoundingly solid weizen glass etched with a line demarcating 16-oz. of beer and a generous head. Crystal is as clear as its name implies and as all non-hefe ales tend to be at the Pyramid/Portland/MacTarnahan's/Magic Hat/Whatever Brewing Company. If only the name of this place was equally clear.
Pyramid claims this to be a descendant of their first beer ever, dating to 1984. This boast tends to clash with another brewery just across the Willamette regarding who brewed the first wheat beer in America. Understandably, it's good copy to claim you were first. But I'm personally quite leery of craft beer recipes from the '80s and Pyramid's Crystal Wheat gives me one more reason why I ought to be.
The concept is one of a clear, American wheat beer. There's no hefe cloudiness or Bavarian spice esters. It is bright golden with large-bubbled persistent carbonation that fails to sustain the type of head we might anticipate from a wheat beer. Flavor is kept to a minimum with just a slight blush of coarse sweetness to remind you that something resembling an ale is actually in that sexy weizen glass.
Though drab in composition Crystal Wheat is a clean yet drinkable ale of deliberate restraint whose defining virtue is its visual appearance.
Jul 17, 2008Pyramid claims this to be a descendant of their first beer ever, dating to 1984. This boast tends to clash with another brewery just across the Willamette regarding who brewed the first wheat beer in America. Understandably, it's good copy to claim you were first. But I'm personally quite leery of craft beer recipes from the '80s and Pyramid's Crystal Wheat gives me one more reason why I ought to be.
The concept is one of a clear, American wheat beer. There's no hefe cloudiness or Bavarian spice esters. It is bright golden with large-bubbled persistent carbonation that fails to sustain the type of head we might anticipate from a wheat beer. Flavor is kept to a minimum with just a slight blush of coarse sweetness to remind you that something resembling an ale is actually in that sexy weizen glass.
Though drab in composition Crystal Wheat is a clean yet drinkable ale of deliberate restraint whose defining virtue is its visual appearance.
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