Orange Wheat
Hangar 24 Craft Brewing

 

I tasted it and thought maybe it's too warm. Benefit of the doubt. So I put it in the freezer for 10 minutes, and tasted again. It was colder, but still undrinkable. Extremely unpleasant. A very rare drain pour. Not able to handle the taste of this. Three sips, then there was just no way to continue. It has a muddy consistency, dirty stale water, no orange flavor just a wahsed out bad sickly twang. I cannot perceive even a normal wheat beer in this mixture. Maybe this is really old? It has no date on it, from a beer of the month distribution. It does not remind me of anything else, because I haven't ever had anything like this flavor. It is singularly inexplicable. How to compare it? I really can't because it does not taste like things you would ever willingly eat or drink. I can taste no hops, no malt, no wheat, no orange, just like slightly carbonated juice from wringing out a wet rag used to clean a dusty piece of furniture maybe. I am sorry, I don't want to feel this way, or even say this, or enjoy saying this, or know about or have anything against this brewery, but it is a mistake to sell the beer in the can I just tasted. The brewery would not put this out (?), so something must be wrong. I wish I knew. I am not slamming this, this is really what I drank.

12oz poured into sorta Tulip Pint hybrid glass. Golden color, hazy but not cloudy, with foamy white head. Minor lacing left on the glass. Nose is light orange juice with no real detectable ale or hop notes. Taste follows nose, homemade orange juice hits the palette with some tang and minor sourness. Ale body is smooth but very thin.. Very minor hop character leaves a bright finish.

Light, bright and lively for the style. Might not appeal to big body Ale drinker, but would definitely entice a Lager fan.

Bomber. Golden pour, cloudy, sparse head. Light, hazy bodied wheat ale, smells and tastes like orange juice. Thirst quenching and refreshing, light and enjoyable.

 

Appearance: Pours a pale yellow, hazed body with an inch of airy, white foam. Light lacing.

Smell: Lightly tangy, citrusy orange-forward nose bolstered with a soft, lightly creamy wheat aroma.

Taste: Bright and tangy orange flavor amongst and amidst the lightly sweetish, soft wheat bread maltiness. A little blip of bitter orange. Subtly creamy yet crisp finish with residual Fanta-esque orange flavor.

Mouthfeel: Medium-light body. Medium carbonation.

Overall: A decent springtime-summertime brew. It's wheaty, it's orangey -- why, it's just like the name implies!

 

very bright and crisp

 

BOM 3/2021

 

I got a bottle of this beer from my good friend and old neighbor from the 'Wego. It poured a slightly hazy pale yellow with very little fizzy white head that is not leaving any lace. The scent had bitter orange notes. The taste was sour leaning with bitter orange tang. The mouthfeel was lighter in body with good carbonation. Overall it is not a beer for me.....but glad to have tried it.

From a beer of the month club. Poured with a bit of cackling leading to a quickly receding off-white foam head that ended with mere laces. Body is a hazy pale straw color on the outside but more orange in the center. Really a nice looking orange wheat ale. The scent is primarily a citrus orange (a touch more acidic but some sweet too with a zest of spice) and a nice wheat backdrop. Taste is quite unlike anything I have had before, almost verging on a sour or gose but has none of the lingering esters in the mouth and a breadiness helps to fight off becoming too sapid. Instead there seems to be a quick hit of orange, effervescence on the tongue, and a bit orange in the aftertaste without ever overpowering. Feel is very much on the lighter side and is the weakest point of an all around very solid beer.