Fortunate Islands
Modern Times Beer

 

 

One finger of rocky white foam domes deep gold liquid with very good clarity; excellent cap retention; medium heavy lacing; solid ring; streaming carbonation. Nose is lemon and lychee. Entry is light bitter lemon peel, followed by lychee, mild grapefruit and semi sweet passion fruit; firm malt base. Light body; semi crisp feel; moderate minus carbonation; no astringency. Overall an enjoyable pale ale; good balance between bitter hops and clean light malt; tasty light bitter citrus linger. I could drink this often.

 

 

 

 

Fortunate Islands pours a slightly hazy lemon, orange color with a foamy head, a little lacing and big carbonated bubbles. A sixteen ounce can dated 04/12/21 has an odd and funky aroma. The taste is very good. Has a light citrus flavor that's easy to drink and overall I would buy this beer. Thanks @RaulMondesi for sharing

 

 

 

Bought a single 16 oz can $3.79 Foodland
93 days old
Hazy amber orange color
Medium mouthfeel
Light carbonation
Taste watery, light bitterness, faint citrus, not much taste.
Overall this is not a great beer. Lacks flavor and character. Would not buy again.

 

 

 

 

Well well well, am I picking up lighter beers recently or am I the one whose taste buds are going numb?
Okay, let’s get this straight: the way this beer smelled was really amazing so I got a bit too overwhelmed - and expected something outstanding, something boomingly hoppy out of this... which it wasn’t quite like.
Now, after I calm down, let me start over again. This is a Pale Wheat Ale!!! I mean... IS this a Pale Wheat Ale??? The beer smells amazing(ly hoppy), extremely fruity, no wonder it has been dry hopped just like an IPA, it says. Maybe that’s where I went wrong, expecting it to be (like) an IPA, which it is obviously not. A Pale Wheat Ale, is it a wheat ale? It is luckily not like a weizen, although it is made with wheat but without that remarkable yeast the Germans use for their beer.
I think you can tell by the looks that this is a wheat ale, it looked very wheaty, very pale and hazy but not like your IPA-hazy. The taste, on the other hand, was very crisp, had a mid- to low maltiness to the body which was quite light and on the top of it, maybe just as if the whole hops things went awol, you had the dry hopping: you have a wheat ale (without hops) dry hopped. Is this actually true? Not sure but it felt like that.
So it felt like a real refresher, with lots of orangy fruitiness to it but unlike your IPAs, it wasn’t punchy, here the taste quickly faded into lightness, almost like - like a lemonade without sugar? (if the latter was to be stood for an IPA...)
Anyway, even though it was different from what I expected, I was impressed with this beer, because I never had such a wheat beer, never had a Pale Wheat Ale before - just the Germans - and I do think that all wheat ales should be like this! I really liked the lightness of it and the way it was hopped, the way those hops created a real fruit flavor to the beer, making it almost like a Fruit and Field Beer.
A good one Modern Times, you never do wrong! Way to go!

Grunt fill from Albertsons. Medium golden, light haze, small but creamy cap of white head. Light, heady grain aroma. Taste too is big on the grains, very bready. A snap of hop bitterness at the end elevated this. One of the best wheat Alex I’ve had.

 

Had this on tap. It was alright. Tart.