Panonska Wheat
Carlsberg Croatia

Panonska WheatPanonska Wheat
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From:
Carlsberg Croatia
 
Croatia
Style:
American Pale Wheat Beer
ABV:
5.3%
Score:
+8 ratings needed
Avg:
3.79 | pDev: 0%
Ratings:
2 | reviews: 1
Status:
Inactive
Rated:
Dec 28, 2017
Added:
Nov 13, 2017
Wants:
  0
Gots:
  2
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Rated: 3.79 by PsenicnoCRO from Croatia

Dec 28, 2017
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Reviewed by biboergosum from Canada (AB)

3.79/5  rDev 0%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.75
330ml bottle - the sibling of the uninspiring APA from this brewery, both of which arrived around here last week.

This beer pours a slightly hazy, pale golden amber colour, with four fingers of puffy, rocky, and somewhat bubbly ecru head, which leaves a bit of patchy, yet complex tree branch lace around the glass as it slowly but surely sinks out of sight.

It smells of bready and grainy wheat malt, damp banana chips, a lightly phenolic yeastiness, indistinct earthy spice, chewed-up bubblegum, and some very tame leafy, weedy, and floral noble hop bitters. The taste is semi-sweet, grainy and doughy wheat malt, a further crackery character, some muddled citrus and banana fruitiness, a bit of clove/coriander spice, still kind of estery yeast, and more well, well understated earthy, musty, and dead floral hoppiness.

The carbonation is average in its palate-caressing frothiness, the body a decent medium weight, and mostly smooth, with a subtle airy creaminess working it to be seen and heard at the big boys' table. It finishes off-dry, the wheatiness and fruity notes lingering with the most fervour.

Overall - this comes across as a more or less fifty-fifty split between a Hefeweizen, and a basic Yankee wheat ale. What's not at question is the grain employed here - this is wheaty up the proverbial wazoo (don't know how that plays in Croatian). Nonetheless, it's actually pretty good stuff.
Nov 19, 2017