Mike Duggan #12 Canadian Wheat
Duggan's Brewery
- From:
- Duggan's Brewery
- Ontario, Canada
- Style:
- American Pale Wheat Beer
- ABV:
- 4.7%
- Score:
- +6 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.06 | pDev: 8.17%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 4
- Status:
- Retired
- Rated:
- Jul 21, 2010
- Added:
- Jul 14, 2010
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
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Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by Sammy from Canada (ON)
3.3/5 rDev +7.8%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
3.3/5 rDev +7.8%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
On-tap at the brewpub. Let's face it, a pale wheat is 99% not going to get tremendously rated, get over it. This is an enhanced macro beer. Wheat helps the mouthfeel, the colour by giving it a nicer head, and contributes drinkability. The taste was more like a lager to me, a tad complex, with a little bitterness. A summer beer effort. I have had much worse tasting undrinkable wheat beers elsewhere.
Jul 21, 2010
Reviewed by biegaman from Canada (ON)
2.95/5 rDev -3.6%
look: 5 | smell: 2.5 | taste: 3 | feel: 2.5 | overall: 3
2.95/5 rDev -3.6%
look: 5 | smell: 2.5 | taste: 3 | feel: 2.5 | overall: 3
On-tap at Duggan's Brewpub, in Toronto.
There could be no better look for a 'Canadian Wheat Ale': it's a well burnished, authentic prairie gold, like the morning sun cracking the horizon over the wheat fields themselves. The bubbles never cease scampering like fruit flies. Its head is a creamy froth and leaves giant, engrossing webs of lacing so thick you could probably use them to net a fish.
There's no mistaking an 'American' wheat - it has a heavy poundage of wheat malt, an animated distinction about it (often the result of a loud, belligerent hoppiness); 'Canadian' wheat, predictably, is much more modest and unemphatic. The wheat is reserved, to say the least, and the hops, not that there are many, stick to a very low profile.
The beer is drinkable, if ordinary. The taste of pale malts dominates, while some notes of wheat follow (not enough, however, to overturn the breadiness with a lush, fluffy texture). The beer is nothing if not neutral, leaving no real bitterness or flavour in the aftertaste. It is underwhelming, but would certainly be found agreeable by most anyone.
When I hear the word 'Canadian' mentioned in any style of beer, I assume the term refers to a more tame and conservative variation on the style; unfortunately, Duggan's Canadian Wheat confirms this. It's truly amazing how a nation's culture, the disposition of its people, can be transmitted through its style of brewing...
Take the Americans, for instance, who updated and reinvented many traditional European styles by adding gluttonous amounts of hops and brash, borderline obnoxious character to their beers. Canadians, on the other hand - the people who comedian Jeremy Hotz has characterized as just wanting to go through life without being seen or offending anybody - brew something so complaisant and nonchalant that it's utterly inconspicuous.
Jul 21, 2010There could be no better look for a 'Canadian Wheat Ale': it's a well burnished, authentic prairie gold, like the morning sun cracking the horizon over the wheat fields themselves. The bubbles never cease scampering like fruit flies. Its head is a creamy froth and leaves giant, engrossing webs of lacing so thick you could probably use them to net a fish.
There's no mistaking an 'American' wheat - it has a heavy poundage of wheat malt, an animated distinction about it (often the result of a loud, belligerent hoppiness); 'Canadian' wheat, predictably, is much more modest and unemphatic. The wheat is reserved, to say the least, and the hops, not that there are many, stick to a very low profile.
The beer is drinkable, if ordinary. The taste of pale malts dominates, while some notes of wheat follow (not enough, however, to overturn the breadiness with a lush, fluffy texture). The beer is nothing if not neutral, leaving no real bitterness or flavour in the aftertaste. It is underwhelming, but would certainly be found agreeable by most anyone.
When I hear the word 'Canadian' mentioned in any style of beer, I assume the term refers to a more tame and conservative variation on the style; unfortunately, Duggan's Canadian Wheat confirms this. It's truly amazing how a nation's culture, the disposition of its people, can be transmitted through its style of brewing...
Take the Americans, for instance, who updated and reinvented many traditional European styles by adding gluttonous amounts of hops and brash, borderline obnoxious character to their beers. Canadians, on the other hand - the people who comedian Jeremy Hotz has characterized as just wanting to go through life without being seen or offending anybody - brew something so complaisant and nonchalant that it's utterly inconspicuous.
Reviewed by eat from Canada (QC)
3.3/5 rDev +7.8%
look: 3 | smell: 3 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3 | overall: 3.5
3.3/5 rDev +7.8%
look: 3 | smell: 3 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3 | overall: 3.5
Thanks to ritzkiss for bringing this by fresh from the brewery.
Nice white head recedes to a ring around the glass. Clear light apple juice colour. Average appearance.
Smells of lots of wheat with some earthy hops. I didn't notice it immediately but some unwanted diacetyl does come out in the nose, more so as it warms.
The flavour is tons of wheat as well. Possibly the wheatiest beer I've tasted, seems to be right on in terms of the style in that sense. Good crackery wheat flavour but, unfortunately, there's some more diacetyl peeking out here as well. Decent noble hops in the mouth but not much show up on the finish. Pretty uninteresting and a little flawed if not all that offensive in spite of it. Okay I guess but I wouldn't buy this again until all the butter is removed.
Your average feel. Medium thin body with maybe a little too much carbonation.
Drinkable enough I guess but not one I'd come back to with the diacetyl included. There seem to be better offerings than this at Duggan's.
Jul 20, 2010Nice white head recedes to a ring around the glass. Clear light apple juice colour. Average appearance.
Smells of lots of wheat with some earthy hops. I didn't notice it immediately but some unwanted diacetyl does come out in the nose, more so as it warms.
The flavour is tons of wheat as well. Possibly the wheatiest beer I've tasted, seems to be right on in terms of the style in that sense. Good crackery wheat flavour but, unfortunately, there's some more diacetyl peeking out here as well. Decent noble hops in the mouth but not much show up on the finish. Pretty uninteresting and a little flawed if not all that offensive in spite of it. Okay I guess but I wouldn't buy this again until all the butter is removed.
Your average feel. Medium thin body with maybe a little too much carbonation.
Drinkable enough I guess but not one I'd come back to with the diacetyl included. There seem to be better offerings than this at Duggan's.
Reviewed by ritzkiss from Canada (ON)
2.71/5 rDev -11.4%
look: 3.5 | smell: 2.5 | taste: 2.5 | feel: 3 | overall: 3
2.71/5 rDev -11.4%
look: 3.5 | smell: 2.5 | taste: 2.5 | feel: 3 | overall: 3
Stopped by to get a growler from Duggan's and all they had left was this new offering so I went for it. Called a 'Canadian Wheat' whatever that is.
Pours a crystal clear golden yellow with two fingers of head which leaves some thin lacing down the glass.
Nose is light honey sweetness, hint of wheat tang and the unfortunate smell of popcorn butter....
First word down on my notes is butter which is too bad because I was expecting much better from Duggan. Butterscotch, popcorn butter, pillowy wheat, light fruits, honey, a slight tartness that is hard to place, an almost complete lack of hop presence short of a light grassiness in the finish when you dig around for it. Quite light carbonation.
The butter seriously thew me off. This isn't a BAD beer per say, it's just certainly not a good one. Would love to see a hopped wheat along the lines of an American style... If this is the 'Canadian' style, I don't think it's going to take off very quickly...
Jul 14, 2010Pours a crystal clear golden yellow with two fingers of head which leaves some thin lacing down the glass.
Nose is light honey sweetness, hint of wheat tang and the unfortunate smell of popcorn butter....
First word down on my notes is butter which is too bad because I was expecting much better from Duggan. Butterscotch, popcorn butter, pillowy wheat, light fruits, honey, a slight tartness that is hard to place, an almost complete lack of hop presence short of a light grassiness in the finish when you dig around for it. Quite light carbonation.
The butter seriously thew me off. This isn't a BAD beer per say, it's just certainly not a good one. Would love to see a hopped wheat along the lines of an American style... If this is the 'Canadian' style, I don't think it's going to take off very quickly...
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