Tropical Wheat Ale
Samuel Adams (Boston Beer Company)

 

 

Look - poured into a tulip glass. straw yellow in color, clear, with a two finger head and moderate lacing retention.

Smell - crisp malts with some white pepper, with very mild sweetness and tropical fruit scents.

Taste - drinks like a blonde ale. good malty flavor, underlying hoppy bitterness, with just a hint of the described fruity notes towards the very end, with little to no sweetness. finish is clean and crisp as well.

Feel - light bodied, high carbonation, and low on the ABV.

Overall - despite the description, this is actually a low to moderately hopped wheat ale with some subtle fruity notes. was expecting to be overly sweet, but pleasantly surprised.

Really enjoyed this offering out of the summer 12-pack. Decent coloration, not anything truly notable with no head. Smell is mostly wheaty with hints of fruity sweetness. It lays moderately on the tongue with a good amount of carbonation, and it had a very wheat-forward taste with the tropical fruits showing up at the backend. Quite a bit balanced, actually. Overall, it’s solid. I’m glad to know I still have a couple more to go through.

Nice aroma of bread,dough, tropical fruits,malt, earthy with a little bitter hops.
Taste for the most part stays true to the aroma with little sweetness despite tropical fruit juice in the aroma. An almost dry mild earthy bitterness is there which lingered.
Overall it was interesting, well done and would have it again.

A pale straw look that resembles apple juice, a multiple fruit aroma that smell amazing, great wheat and fruit taste which goes down extremely smooth. A fantastic overall beer.

 

 

Poured into a narrow pint glass: color is straw, transparent, clear, head is off white and presents 1/2 inch thick and dissipates to thin top, some lacing on the glass sides.

Smell is light malt, wheat, biscuit, toast, light tropical juice with mango notable.

Taste is light malt, wheat, biscuit, then tropical juice with mango notable, extract like flavor.

Mouthfeel is moderate carbonation, moderate sweetness, low/moderate bitterness.

Overall a light, refreshing, moderately hopped and crisp ale, fruit juices a little heavy and/or extract like but are not detracting.

Best by Oct 2022
Pours a large pillowing over the top of the chalice glass 3 finger frothy creamy head with great retention, rocky pillowy looking, tons if messy lacing, very clear light golden color

Nose cereal grain, general grainy malt and straw, doughy wheat, fair fruity somewhat generic tropical fruit, little mango maybe, pineapple, guava, a bit extract like, hint soapy

Taste cereal grain and straw grassy wheat up front, little doughy, cracked straw, fair bitterness with mild spicy but mostly fruity hops, again tropical fruit that starts generic and extract like, then turns to guava and some pineapple juice late, little mango skin, mild tangerine citrus note, dry mild gritty finish with med to a bit higher bitterness, mild astringent

Mouth is med bod, some creamy wheat, higher frothy foamy carb

Overall not bad for an easy summer beer, not great quality though

 

From the summer mix pack that was more expensive than the Paulaner mixer... What a terrible mistake was made...

Clearish, very light wheat and lemon scent. Pretty easy to drink, citrus of all types, that same almost-tangerine flavor dominates the aftertaste. Beer for people who don't like beer, nothing wrong with that, except I don't enjoy it

 

12 oz. bottle from mix pack poured into a pint glass. Pour is a clear medium straw with a thin cap of nearly white foam. Some artificial fruit notes on the aroma. No sense of wheat in haze or flavor or aroma. Touch of spice on the finish perhaps conflicts with that. Finish is slightly thick/sweet for an otherwise light bodied brew. Warming adds a bit to the mix but it remains an odd cat.

Not bitter at all. Citrus middle, mild ending. Smooth not bad. Good average summery beer

12oz bottle. Poured out a crystal clear, golden yellow color with a small, white head of foam. It left minimal lacing on the glass. It smelled of mango, guava, wheat and caramel. Sweet tropical fruit taste with hints of wheat and some sweet caramel.

 

From a 12 fl. oz. bottle clipped at September 2022. Sampled June 4, 2022.

Sam Adams beer pours always look good. Golden color underneath a modest soft white head with streaming carbonation running up the middle of the glass.

What I pick up on the nose right away are the toasted wheat sensations and a little bit of lemon juice. Some orange or Mandarin esters are in the mix too.

Soft, medium mouthfeel.

The taste is more about the lemony aspects with a sweet wheat profile balancing it off. Clean. Crisp. Refreshing on a hot day.

I liked Oberon Tropical much more than this one.