Black Walnut Wheat
Piney River Brewing Co.

Black Walnut WheatBlack Walnut Wheat
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From:
Piney River Brewing Co.
 
Missouri, United States
Style:
American Dark Wheat Beer
Ranked #4
ABV:
4.5%
Score:
83
Ranked #24,072
Avg:
3.65 | pDev: 14.52%
Reviews:
30
Ratings:
115
Status:
Active
Rated:
Jan 13, 2024
Added:
Jan 04, 2012
Wants:
  7
Gots:
  28
Buckets, burlap bags and pickup truck beds are filled with black walnuts each fall in the Ozarks. The rich and lively flavor of the wild, hand-harvested black walnut is a renowned flavor of the region. We're proud to continue celebrating local flavor and tradition with our handcrafted Black Walnut Wheat Ale.

18 IBU
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Ratings by soju6:
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Reviewed by soju6 from Missouri

3.61/5  rDev -1.1%
look: 3.25 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 4
On tap at Shamrocks. Served a dark brown color with a nice tan head. Aroma of Malt, wheat and nuts. Taste of malt, nice nuttiness and grain. Mild bitterness and a clean finish. Moderate body, smooth and quite flavorful. Enjoyable beer.
May 13, 2018
More User Ratings:
 
Rated: 3.75 by drstalker from Illinois

Jan 13, 2024
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Reviewed by Snowcrash000 from Germany

3.71/5  rDev +1.6%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.75
Pours a cloudy, reddish mahogany coloration with a small, fizzy head that instantly fades to nothing. Smells of bready, caramel malt and hints of walnuts coming through. Taste is a good balance of bready, caramel malt and hints of herbal hops and estery clove spice, as well as some walnuts coming through as well. Finishes with a light/medium bitterness and some bready malt and hints of caramel and walnuts lingering in the aftertaste. Watery mouthfeel with a light body and medium carbonation.

I was quite surprised how watery and light-bodied this feels for a wheat beer, with almost no head showing as well. The black walnuts are clearly recognizeable, but still pretty subtle, mainly coming through in the aroma and aftertaste, with the bready, slightly caramelly malts making up much of the flavor profile here. although the merest hints of hops and esters are also perceiveable. Overall this makes for a pretty decent brew that's pretty flavorful for the ABV, but pretty light-bodied.
Dec 17, 2023
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Reviewed by MissouriMule from Missouri

4.85/5  rDev +32.9%
look: 5 | smell: 5 | taste: 5 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.75
Although this is not a nut brown ale, nor even a brown ale, it is my new ersatz nut brown ale.

Pours a dark amber with minimal head. A thin ring remains and maintains lacing.

Smell is nutty sweetness, with black walnuts more subtly peeking out than I would have thought possible for such an aromatic tree nut. It is a fantastic aroma.

The black walnuts do lead the taste, but again with more subtly than I expected. I would not know this was at base a wheat beer but for the fact that the wheat throws in some sweetness and otherwise sits down and shuts up. I do not call this my new favorite ersatz nut brown ale for no reason.

Carbonation is lighter and wateriness higher than many might expect. I took off for them in my numerical ratings, but theses characteristics do not detract from the experience for me personally. They make this, to my taste, what my younger self always wanted Newcastle to be, and what my older self would find disappointing in the long-departed Leinie’s Fireside Nut Brown Ale.

I will stock up on this every time I am in the Ozarks.
Nov 19, 2023
 
Rated: 3.93 by KC_beerman from Missouri

Jan 01, 2023
 
Rated: 3.6 by buzzy from Pennsylvania

Oct 09, 2021
 
Rated: 3.9 by red_5_sooner from Oklahoma

Aug 15, 2021
 
Rated: 4.07 by LunchMoney from Minnesota

Jul 25, 2021
 
Rated: 3.75 by 22Blue from Kansas

Jul 26, 2020
 
Rated: 3.25 by Eyedoc27 from Illinois

Apr 09, 2020
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Reviewed by woodychandler from Pennsylvania

3.86/5  rDev +5.8%
look: 3.75 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3.75
A Labor Day shout-out & thank-you to my local, in-person trader, @tone77 who brought this for The CANQuest (tm) from one of his many adventures!

From the CAN: "Pack it in. Pack it out. Enjoy nature."; "Buckets, burlap bags and pickup truck beds are filled with black walnuts each fall in the Ozarks. The rich and lively flavor of the wild, hand-harvested black walnut is a renowned flavor of the region. We're proud to continue celebrating local flavor and tradition with our handcrafted Black Walnut Wheat Ale."

I did as the CAN directed & kept it refrigerated since its arrival & in Crack!ing open the vent, nothing untoward occurred so I CANtinued with a slow, gentle C-Line Glug. I was both pleasantly surprised & mildly elated to see it forming a pseudo-cascade as it foamed upwards. It resulted in two-plus fingers of dense, foamy, rocky, deep-tan/light-brown head with good retention. Color was Brown to Dark Brown (SRM = > 22, < 27) with NE-quality clarity. I guess that the walnuts were black, not the beer. No matter as it was still well within Style specs. Nose was quite sweet, very malty & reminiscent of syrup on buckwheat pancakes. It had a pleasant nuttiness to acCANpony the syrupy sweetness. Mouthfeel was thin-to-medium, not watery, but not much past it, either. The taste was less sweet than the nose had led me to gird myself for, presenting a solid nuttiness with the counterbalance of treacle, vice syrup. This suddenly made me wish that I had pancakes or waffles to go with it. Mmm. Finish was semi-sweet, but a case could be made for semi-dry. It definitely was the sum of its parts! Mmm. YMMV.
Sep 02, 2019
 
Rated: 3.77 by MizzouBrew from Missouri

Jun 15, 2019
 
Rated: 3.19 by sjb805 from Missouri

Apr 24, 2019
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Reviewed by BeerAndGasMasks from Virginia

3.68/5  rDev +0.8%
look: 4.25 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
From the can, it pours a clearbrown with a nice full light tan head that slowly diminishes as you enjoy it. Scent in the nose of bread and something else, possibly nuts. Taste is the same, with a nutty background to the malty flavor.
Dec 18, 2018
 
Rated: 3.53 by Walnut from Missouri

Sep 29, 2018
 
Rated: 3.69 by ConnorMobs from Missouri

Jun 30, 2018
 
Rated: 4.85 by SynthetikReality95 from Arkansas

Jun 05, 2018
 
Rated: 4.16 by jripley97 from Missouri

Apr 26, 2018
 
Rated: 3.47 by socon67 from New York

Mar 30, 2018
 
Rated: 3.25 by Rostie from Michigan

Feb 09, 2018
Black Walnut Wheat from Piney River Brewing Co.
Beer rating: 83 out of 100 with 115 ratings