Prickly Pear Wheat
Borderlands Brewing Co.
- From:
- Borderlands Brewing Co.
- Arizona, United States
- Style:
- Fruit and Field Beer
Ranked #519 - ABV:
- 6%
- Score:
- 78
Ranked #37,815 - Avg:
- 3.09 | pDev: 20.06%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 3
- Status:
- Active
- Rated:
- Jul 17, 2022
- Added:
- Jan 26, 2012
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 3
SCORE
78
Okay
78
Okay
Prickly pear, grown and harvested locally by the Arizona Cactus Ranch, graces our well balanced wheat beer with it’s unique flavor of cucumber and melon. Our prickly pear wheat is a light bodied, refreshing ale with a great wheat flavor and subtle nuances of citrus fruits like lemon and grapefruit.
15 IBU
15 IBU
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Reviewed by Fee from Pennsylvania
3.65/5 rDev +18.1%
look: 4.75 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3.5
3.65/5 rDev +18.1%
look: 4.75 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3.5
A good beer for folks that like fruity beers. Not particularly strong or weak - right in between. I'm not sure I would recommend it for folks not interested in a flavored beer, but it's not horrible.
Jan 15, 2017
Reviewed by AgentMunky from New York
3.57/5 rDev +15.5%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.5
3.57/5 rDev +15.5%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.5
Served on tap at the brewery. From notes. Reviewed 27 February 2016.
3.75/3.5/3.5/4/3.5
Sweet and full bodied. Kind of sugary, but the cactus flavor is nice.
Mar 12, 20163.75/3.5/3.5/4/3.5
Sweet and full bodied. Kind of sugary, but the cactus flavor is nice.
Reviewed by Gueuzedude from Arizona
3.12/5 rDev +1%
look: 2.5 | smell: 3 | taste: 3 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
3.12/5 rDev +1%
look: 2.5 | smell: 3 | taste: 3 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
The beer arrives from the tap with a deeply hazed, murky, pink-red stained, dark straw. The beer is topped by a pale, off-white colored head, that is maybe a ¼-finger in thickness. The aroma is earthy & somewhat yeasty smelling and there is also a tartness to the nose, as well as a soft, sort of floral fruitiness that leans towards a berry-like character. Cracker like pale malt aromatics add to the earthiness and there is an almost raw grain like note in the nose as well.
Lightly tart tasting, with a subtler, expressively floral fruitiness. The beer is fairly light bodied, but definitely has viscous slickness to it that is likely from prickly pear fruit. There is that characteristic, bitter, slightly vegetal character that is a signature of prickly pear, but thankfully it is quite subtle here. As the beer warms up the tartness becomes more apparent. The prickly pear contributes flavors reminiscent of pomegranate, tart-not-quite-green-slightly-ripe berries and even a touch of watermelon like flavors. There is a touch of cracker like grain character towards the finish that shows that there is indeed some base beer character here; it definitely has some wheat character to it.
Quite a bit tastier than I was expecting, I really like that this misses the usual pitfalls made when brewing with prickly pear. As one would expect from this type of beer, it is fairly simplistic in its focus on the prickly pear notes, but it keeps this subtle enough that it works fairly well. If this was brewed with a Saison yeast I would likely be quite happy to drink a lot of this.
Feb 18, 2012Lightly tart tasting, with a subtler, expressively floral fruitiness. The beer is fairly light bodied, but definitely has viscous slickness to it that is likely from prickly pear fruit. There is that characteristic, bitter, slightly vegetal character that is a signature of prickly pear, but thankfully it is quite subtle here. As the beer warms up the tartness becomes more apparent. The prickly pear contributes flavors reminiscent of pomegranate, tart-not-quite-green-slightly-ripe berries and even a touch of watermelon like flavors. There is a touch of cracker like grain character towards the finish that shows that there is indeed some base beer character here; it definitely has some wheat character to it.
Quite a bit tastier than I was expecting, I really like that this misses the usual pitfalls made when brewing with prickly pear. As one would expect from this type of beer, it is fairly simplistic in its focus on the prickly pear notes, but it keeps this subtle enough that it works fairly well. If this was brewed with a Saison yeast I would likely be quite happy to drink a lot of this.
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