Moon Dance Mango Wheat
Old Yale Brewing Co.

Poured from 12oz can into a dimpled mug. This is currently listed as a witbier, but Old Yale doesn't call it that.

Appearance: medium-light golden hue with a moderate haze and a thin layer of ivory foam atop that didn't stick around too long. Color is nice, though.

Smell: the wheat lends a malty, earthy aroma, and while the mango is not super strong, it has a nice, lightly refreshing tropical character. Maybe not perfect, but not a bad fruited wheat beer.

Taste: much like the aroma, this is a very earthy beer indeed with a very wheaty flavor, almost like breakfast cereal. The mango complements it pretty well, although the whole thing has a bit of a heavy dullness that could be perked up a bit or something. Not bad, though.

Mouthfeel: medium-light body with a good carbonation and decent creaminess.

Overall: for a fruited wheat beer, you could do a lot worse. I think this beer could be livened up a little, but otherwise, fairly decent.

 

 

Murky mango orange color. Poured a very short head that disappeared almost immediately. Too cloudy to see the carbonation level, but there were bubbles appearing at the surface. Left no lacing.

Very light mango scent with a bit of yeast funk. Swirling the glass kicked up a light barnyard that only lasted a couple of seconds.

Light mango flavor. A bit of fruit tart with a light sweet to partially offset. Somewhat stronger funk with its own sour. Very light malt. The flavor grows more intense as it warms in my mouth. The aftertaste is a quick burst of tart funk. Then it fades to a light malt and bitter. Generally the flavor is stronger than a regular Witbier, but the fruit is much lighter than I expected.

Mild tongue tingling. Turned into a large bubbled foam. Slightly astringent.

Interesting departure from a stock Witbier, but I think it would have been better effort to aim at a fruited Saison.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Brewed with 900 mangoes.

The white wheat is prominent here. Sweet and fruity like a breakfast cereal. Very smooth. Aroma of mangoes. Do not particularly understand the previous low ratings.

 

 

355ml can poured into tulip 10/5/16

A milky pale yellow, enough clarity to see a couple streams of bubbles, not much for head or lace

S faint mango, green banana, purple candy, some dry cereal, pretty basic

T again flavors a little basic and not all that strong, hard unripe mango, wheaty cereal, a little bland

M light bodied, fluffs up and flattens out, slick on the palate, fruity cereal lingers faintly

O not a whole lot of fruit but its there, kinda boring really but easy enough to drink

Pretty basic but drinkable, a hot day lawnmower beer at best

650 ml bottle from the BCL.

A: Yellow and cloudy.
S: Tart mango and wheat.
T: A fruity witbier. A bit acidic on the tongue.
F: Crisp.

650ml bottle - not sure that this is any different than the Outta Wack version, but my protests go unheeded, so screw it.

This beer pours a murky, cloudy medium golden yellow colour, with three fingers of puffy, loosely foamy, and bubbly off-white head, which leaves some low-lying, settled fog bank lace around the glass as it slowly and evenly subsides.

It smells of gritty, semi-sweet wheat malt, edgy mango (more tart than fruity), muddled earthy spice, a bit of underripe banana, and sort of musty, leafy and grassy hop bitters. The taste is more indistinct mango puree, a grainy pale and wheat malt sweetness, pesky yeast, the same dried banana thing from the nose, some seriously waning spice, and plain earthy, weedy hops.

The carbonation is fairly soft and innocuous, with a gentle frothiness presiding, the body on the weak side of middleweight, and generally smooth, I suppose, as a light airy creaminess arises over time. It finishes off-dry, the grainy wheatiness starting to poke through any lazily lingering mango/banana fruitiness.

Yeah, nothing particularly special going on here, just a simple wit-aspiring wheat beer, dosed with a mango flavouring that doesn't really jive with the whole. Can't say that this is all that worth trying, even if you are a fan of said tropical fruit.