Oberon
Bell's Brewery - Eccentric Café & General Store

12oz can from HomeBrewStuff. Pale golden, light haze, one finger foamy white head. Aroma is bready malts with a hint of lemon. Taste brings rich fresh baked bread flavors, mild sweetness, and very faint citrus. Nice feel with a dry finish.

Poured into a weizen glass. Pours a slightly hazy, light to medium golden amber with a four finger white head with great retention and thick lacing. Aroma of mildly grainy wheat and lemon. Flavor is whole wheat- bread, lemon and faint light fruit notes. More whole grain wheat character in the finish. Medium bodied with light to moderate creaminess. The base wheat malt is remarkably true to a hefeweizen, but there is no clove or banana yeast character. This makes it somewhat uncomplicated, but it really has a very pleasant wheat flavor with just a touch of lemon. Nicely balanced and refreshing. I usually prefer and hefewiezen over this American wheat style, but this one is a winner in my book.

 

 

 

 

L: Thick, creamy yellowish head. Slightly hazy golden color
S: Nothing sticks out too much. There's bread/yeast, spice, fruity banana & citrus notes
T: Fairly sweet out front, but not overly so, with banana, clove, hints of brown sugar and sweet bread. Floral and citrus hops round it out with a slightly bitter finish.
F: Medium+ body, moderate carbonation, slightly astringent and warm on the finish.

Well balanced and easy drinking. A great summer beer.

 

 

It's the beer of the summer. A classic.

 

 

 

Pretty good summer ale.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

PKG: 3/24/22 opened and reviewed on 6/12/22

Look: slight haze to the straw gold liquid. Puffy white foam rises high with fat clumps of lace.

Nose: Spicy, husky wheat and summer field golden grains. Spicy, herbal and fruity in the back.

Feel & Flavor: Very light and clean feel with a nice spice kick, herbal and soft with a tingle of light fruitiness.

Overall: I love that this is an American wheat bear sans the big Banana and Clove funkiness all over the place. This one represents clean wheat, grains and a herbal, slightly fruity hop thing that all jives together.

A solid American wheat. Tastes like summer.

It can be quiet frustrating to drink a beer that feels like nothing. With Oberons in season, you're likely to find these things at graduation parties or summer barbeques. You can also find Two-Hearted Ale, Modelo, Pabst Blue Ribbon, and Corona at these occasions. Now is Oberon really better than these? No. Is it really worse? Well it can't be worse Heinekein or a Stella.

 

 

 

 

Delicious and smooth

 

 

 

May 1, 2022 - Hazy straw color, fluffy white head, lacy; tastes like beer, pretty good beer, mouthfeel is good beer. I’ve never been particularly impressed by wheat beer but this one’s not too bad. I like the big fluffy head.

Canned 3/14/22.
Hazy yellow with one finger of white head.

Light banana and vague citrus aromas, with some bready/yeasty malt smell.

Taste is orange+lemon creamsicle, but less sweet , light dried banana, bread crust, finishing with some coriander+black pepper spiciness that has some bite to it.. Light lingering bitterness

Feel is light-medium, juicy, smooth, light-moderate very,very fine carbonation tingle. Finishes with sharp bite on tip of tongue, followed by a drying feeling.

Smooth and easy-drinking. A classic for good reason. :)

 

 

I have been looking for this for a while. I only just randomly found it at a World Market, cool. Poured from a bottle into a spiegelau American Wheat Beer glass.

Looks - Hazy golden honey color. Beautiful look to it. The head is nice, white, and fluffy. The head doesn't die out easily. Lacing is kind of minimal. If you look up beer clip art, this kind of has a classic beer look. Very attractive.

Smells - Kind of tangy. Like, I would expect this beer to be tangy. Mildly fruity (pineapple?) with some malt in there. A slight bit of vegetal spice in there too.

Taste - Very nice. Not too bitter, not too sweet. Cherry-like notes with some lemon-esque pineapple. Mild spice and peppercorn fruits. Malt in the middle as well, wheat is very prominent and gives a classic beer taste while also being varied enough in notes. A zing of bitterness in the finish. Finish isn't too long.

Feel - Pretty smooth, fairly light. Easy drinking. Not very effervescent. Doesn't coat the mouth too much. Highly sessionable. Smooth, fairly velvety.

Overall, I enjoy this one. It's different from other hop-foward ales I'm used to drinking. Has a nice hop to malt balance. I've been searching for beers in the American Wheat Ale style. My only other exposure is Little Sumpin. There is contention around LIttle Sumpin being an IPA or an American Wheat Ale. I tend to be on the side of it being an American Wheat Ale...but trying this has me changing my mind. This is stylistically different enough. Not as bitter as other ales, but not too sweet. This would be great at family parties.