Mango Wheat
Anchor Brewing Company

Really liked this one, sorry they discontinued was expecting it late summer/fall here in the bay. Solid wheat brew with natural mango that blended really well - not too sweet and most importantly NOT artificial like every other mango brew I've had, had a great aroma. Bring it back!

 

2015 vintage; drank 3/28/16 @ the Yarchives.

See-through pale orange appearance.

A rough pour yielded a big white head; strong, frothy lace.

Peach, mango & wheat notes in the nose.

Thin mouthfeel.

Dry peach & mango flavors up front; wheat & a faint carbonation bite on the finish.

A nice, fruity session vibe; I'd have another, especially on a hot summer day.

 

Clear golden color. Decent head. Luscious, heavy mango on the nose. Heavy carbonation but very thin body. Poor mouthfeel. Mango flavor is well enough balanced with wheat notes but both are pretty light. Well balanced bitterness.

 

Aroma:
Eggy wheat. Touch of tropical fruit.

Fruity and sweet. Pasty.

Meh.

 

 

 

I am kind of disappointed with this one, actually the first one from Anchor that was sort of a letdown. Not for the quality of course as they are making superb stuff but for this mango thing. I love mangoes but this one is mango "flavored." Claims to be naturally though but its still kimd of cheesy, kind of like candleway, a bit artificial. I would prefer mango in my juice not in my beer - or if in my brew then I'd rather put it in the wort as like Sierra did it with blood oranges, which was cool. Next I will have their Blood Orange Golden Ale, let's see how stoked it can be.

 

Almost clear deep golden color with off-white head. Aroma is mostly grainy and malty with a vague fruity note and some yeast esters. Taste follows on the same note. Very light fruit flavor, generic malt sweetness with a light hop bitterness on the finish. Medium body with medium plus carbonation. It's a very tame beer, I expected a bit more fruit character.

 

Pretty pour. Dark golden amber with a medium-sized head.

Mango aroma is intense enough that I can smell it at arm's length. It's very rounded and smooth and organic-seeming. Not much by way of wheat beer complexities but the fruit is nice enough to carry the aroma by itself.

Tastes surprisingly complex, beery, and good. The aforementioned mango nodes fill the beginning of the sip, but they move quickly into bready and yeasty wheat beer flavors and end with some peppery wheatmalt. The mango colors all of the beer, yes, but it does not blot out it's beeriness. And, unlike most (lesser) fruited wheat beers, this one is full bodied and the flavor doesn't drop off at the end. It's a fruited beer that... gasp... is made for people who actually like beer!

I was really surprised to see this on the shelf. Not only is it out of character for Anchor, but its branding breaks radically with their core lineup. Other brewers might have created some kind of fake subsidiary to distribute it. Anchor is proud of their product, though, and they damn well should be. It's excellently brewed.

 

Poured into a becher pint glass, the appearance was a glossy burnt yellow to soft orange color with a finger's worth of white foamy head that slid off at a moderate pace. Not much lace.
The aroma had some sweet mango puree' pulling in some sweet wheat and sweet grass.
The flavor was all about the mango and coming across in a semi-sticky manner in the aftertaste.
The mouthfeel was between light and medium bodied with a fair sessionability about it. Carbonation felt fine. ABV felt appropriate. Some cloying effects show their presence along my tongue.
Overall, I like the aroma the best about this. but it needs more balance in the flavor (a little more wheat would help pull down that overly sweet portion). Cloying part doesn't help either.

 

 

 

 

 

12 oz can

 

A great wheat base with a natural tasting mango.

 

 

 

 

 

S: Mango and wheat lead the aromas with mango dominant. There are traces of caramel and hop aromas in the background.

L: It's a brassy gold pour with a slight haze, streams of rapidly rising bubble and a 1" white foam cap with moderate retention.

T: Wheat to light biscuit and sweet mango lead the attack followed up by a refreshing bitter finish. The mango is medium to medium high, hop bitterness is medium and wheat is medium to medium flow.

F: It has a medium body and medium high carbonation.

O: This is refreshing beer with an interesting blend of flavors.

 

 

 

 

At $3.99!! a six pack for an Anchor beer, I had to grab this even though my inner self said west coast...be careful. So in effect what could have been a nice fruity weizen turned out to be another hop-centric bitter mess. Drank one and gave the rest away to an unsuspecting beer buddy who may actually be able to drink it. It did pour with a nice golden color and rich head that led me to great expectations. Phooey!