Wheat Freak
2nd Shift Brewing
- From:
- 2nd Shift Brewing
- Missouri, United States
- Style:
- American Pale Wheat Beer
- ABV:
- 5.2%
- Score:
- +6 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.83 | pDev: 8.88%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 1
- Status:
- Inactive
- Rated:
- Jun 30, 2012
- Added:
- Aug 15, 2011
- Wants:
- 1
- Gots:
- 0
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WFA is not your typical wheat beer, but none of our beers are typical anyway, it has a pretty good load of Cascade and Centennial hops in it and its around 5.2% ABV.
32 IBU
32 IBU
Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by kkoz from Illinois
4.08/5 rDev +6.5%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 4.5
4.08/5 rDev +6.5%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 4.5
Appearance & Aroma: It was pretty clear, especially for a wheat beer, and was golden in color with slight bit of a pale orange/light amber color. There was a very thin head at the top, which pretty much disappeared as I drank the beer. There was a bit of a bready malt aroma and a citrusy-piney hop aroma.
Taste & Feel: The body was light-medium and the mouthfeel was crisp. There was a slight bready-malty flavor before a decent sized piney-citrus hop flavor kicked in. The finish was slightly dry and the hop bitterness stuck around for just a little bit.
Food Pairing: This went tremendously well with the french onion soup I had at Franco. The bready malty flavor, followed by hop flavors matched the bready-onion flavors from the soup, while the hop flavor matched nicely with the gruyère cheese melted on top of the soup.
Overall Impression: At first, I was a bit surprised by the clarity of this wheat beer, as I’ve grown to expect craft wheat beers to be a bit cloudy. However, the subtle wheat beer flavors were there, as well as a wonderful hop flavor. The hop flavor was at just the right intensity – not over the top, but definitely balanced more in that direction, and balanced with a decent wheat-malt backbone. This is one I’d certainly order again on a hot night out with friends.
Aug 15, 2011Taste & Feel: The body was light-medium and the mouthfeel was crisp. There was a slight bready-malty flavor before a decent sized piney-citrus hop flavor kicked in. The finish was slightly dry and the hop bitterness stuck around for just a little bit.
Food Pairing: This went tremendously well with the french onion soup I had at Franco. The bready malty flavor, followed by hop flavors matched the bready-onion flavors from the soup, while the hop flavor matched nicely with the gruyère cheese melted on top of the soup.
Overall Impression: At first, I was a bit surprised by the clarity of this wheat beer, as I’ve grown to expect craft wheat beers to be a bit cloudy. However, the subtle wheat beer flavors were there, as well as a wonderful hop flavor. The hop flavor was at just the right intensity – not over the top, but definitely balanced more in that direction, and balanced with a decent wheat-malt backbone. This is one I’d certainly order again on a hot night out with friends.
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