Sleeman 5514 Filtered Wheat Ale
Sleeman Breweries Ltd.
- From:
- Sleeman Breweries Ltd.
- Ontario, Canada
- Style:
- American Pale Wheat Beer
- ABV:
- 4.5%
- Score:
- +2 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.08 | pDev: 14.61%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 3
- Status:
- Inactive
- Rated:
- Aug 06, 2019
- Added:
- Apr 10, 2017
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
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Recent ratings and reviews.
Ratings by Copix:
Rated by Copix from Canada (BC)
2.83/5 rDev -8.1%
look: 3 | smell: 3 | taste: 2.75 | feel: 2.75 | overall: 2.75
Nov 30, 2017
2.83/5 rDev -8.1%
look: 3 | smell: 3 | taste: 2.75 | feel: 2.75 | overall: 2.75
Nov 30, 2017
More User Ratings:
Reviewed by biboergosum from Canada (AB)
2.21/5 rDev -28.2%
look: 3.75 | smell: 2 | taste: 2.25 | feel: 2 | overall: 2
2.21/5 rDev -28.2%
look: 3.75 | smell: 2 | taste: 2.25 | feel: 2 | overall: 2
341ml bottle - a single from my local liquor chain outlet, which is always a major score, amirite?
This beer pours a clear, bright pale golden yellow colour, with two fingers of puffy, loosely foamy, and fizzy dirty white head, which leaves a bit of cannonball splash aftermath lace around the glass as it quickly blows off.
It smells of skunky, putrid yeast, gritty and grainy wheat malt, a hint of stale citrus fruitiness, wet cardboard, and some unpleasant musty, herbal, and dead grassy green hop bitters. The taste is grainy and dry bready pale malt, more wet packaging material, a wayward son yeastiness, stale and damp wheat crackers, and more skanky, herbal, and probably light-struck 'hoppiness'.
The carbonation is quite active in its palate-probing frothiness, the body a so-so medium weight, and not particularly smooth, not here, no how. It finishes very dry, the skank, skunk, whatever the hell you want to call it, gently drifting off into that good night.
Overall - yeah, I'm sure that this was a passable wheat beer before it was removed from its mixed-pack protection racket, which shouldn't be a prerequisite for it not tasting and smelling like ass. Come on, people, get with the fucking program, and use green or brown glass, what is the bloody problem?
Dec 09, 2017This beer pours a clear, bright pale golden yellow colour, with two fingers of puffy, loosely foamy, and fizzy dirty white head, which leaves a bit of cannonball splash aftermath lace around the glass as it quickly blows off.
It smells of skunky, putrid yeast, gritty and grainy wheat malt, a hint of stale citrus fruitiness, wet cardboard, and some unpleasant musty, herbal, and dead grassy green hop bitters. The taste is grainy and dry bready pale malt, more wet packaging material, a wayward son yeastiness, stale and damp wheat crackers, and more skanky, herbal, and probably light-struck 'hoppiness'.
The carbonation is quite active in its palate-probing frothiness, the body a so-so medium weight, and not particularly smooth, not here, no how. It finishes very dry, the skank, skunk, whatever the hell you want to call it, gently drifting off into that good night.
Overall - yeah, I'm sure that this was a passable wheat beer before it was removed from its mixed-pack protection racket, which shouldn't be a prerequisite for it not tasting and smelling like ass. Come on, people, get with the fucking program, and use green or brown glass, what is the bloody problem?
Rated by spinrsx from Canada (ON)
2.75/5 rDev -10.7%
look: 2.75 | smell: 2.75 | taste: 2.75 | feel: 2.75 | overall: 2.75
2.75/5 rDev -10.7%
look: 2.75 | smell: 2.75 | taste: 2.75 | feel: 2.75 | overall: 2.75
Bottle part of a mixed pack.
Aug 09, 2017
Rated by Pmicdee from Canada (ON)
3.25/5 rDev +5.5%
look: 3.25 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3.25
3.25/5 rDev +5.5%
look: 3.25 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3.25
A little disappointing. I bought a mixed six pack entirely for the reason of trying this beer.
Jul 22, 2017
Reviewed by kevofficiel from Canada (QC)
3.12/5 rDev +1.3%
look: 3 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3 | feel: 3 | overall: 3
3.12/5 rDev +1.3%
look: 3 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3 | feel: 3 | overall: 3
Sleeman 5514 Filtered Wheat Ale for the 150th years Anniversary of Canada. 5514 is the distance between the most extreme point at the east and at the west. Someone from Sleeman told me that. That's why it is call like that.
Look: Yellow golden pale color. Lots of carbonation. About a finger of light white head.
Smell: Wheat, citrus, orange.
Taste: A bit let down versus the smell. About the same as the taste Wheat, citrus and some zesty orange peel. Not as punchy as the smell. Very soft and smooth, but nothing to spectacular.
Feel: Light to medium body. Very easy drinking beer. 4,5% ABV nice combo but the Sleeman Railside does a better job for me with a 4,2% ABV, more taste and almost the same ABV so a bit let down on this beer.
So overall would I recomend it? Sure, Its a Above average beer but nothing to much to expect even with a very interesting name on the beer.
May 04, 2017Look: Yellow golden pale color. Lots of carbonation. About a finger of light white head.
Smell: Wheat, citrus, orange.
Taste: A bit let down versus the smell. About the same as the taste Wheat, citrus and some zesty orange peel. Not as punchy as the smell. Very soft and smooth, but nothing to spectacular.
Feel: Light to medium body. Very easy drinking beer. 4,5% ABV nice combo but the Sleeman Railside does a better job for me with a 4,2% ABV, more taste and almost the same ABV so a bit let down on this beer.
So overall would I recomend it? Sure, Its a Above average beer but nothing to much to expect even with a very interesting name on the beer.
Reviewed by thehyperduck from Canada (ON)
3.22/5 rDev +4.5%
look: 3.25 | smell: 3 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.25
3.22/5 rDev +4.5%
look: 3.25 | smell: 3 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.25
341 mL bottle from their new mixed "Beer Crate"; dated Mar 9 2017 and served well chilled.
Pours a pale golden-yellow colour, with the sort of pristine clarity I'd expect from a beer with "filtered" in its name. One finger of soapy white head lasts for the better part of two minutes before seeping off, with a decent-sized collar of foam remaining in place afterwards. Rather plain on the nose; there's some coarse grains, with wheaty bread sweetness and hints of apple juice, white grape and faint grassiness.
It's drinkable, but beyond that there's not a whole lot to say about this one. Gritty coarse grains and bready wheat malt sweetness describe 80% of the flavour profile, with light hints of apple and grassy hay on the back end rounding out the other 20%. The wheat malt notes persist on the palate for a second or two after each sip, but beyond that, the aftertaste is mostly clean. Very light in body, with typical carbonation levels that are assertive and prickly, without being unnecessarily so. Extremely sessionable - there's only three bottles of this in the mixed pack, and a determined drinker could easily plow through the trio in under an hour.
Final Grade: 3.22, a C+. Sleeman's 5514 Filtered Wheat Ale is a very dull, uninspired sort of beer - that is, unless you're willing to count stuff like Grasshopper or Molson Canadian Wheat as being some sort of inspiration. It's better than their Original Draught, I'll give it that - but not by much, and neither brew is one that I'd seek out in the future. 5514 just replaces the corny flavour of OD with a cleaner, wheaty pale malt note - a welcome change in theory, but the end result is still just a tepid, plain Jane summer patio beer that is really only suitable for handing out to your not-so-craft-beer-inclined visitors. Come to think of it, that's basically what I do with the Cream Ale and OD, too...
Apr 14, 2017Pours a pale golden-yellow colour, with the sort of pristine clarity I'd expect from a beer with "filtered" in its name. One finger of soapy white head lasts for the better part of two minutes before seeping off, with a decent-sized collar of foam remaining in place afterwards. Rather plain on the nose; there's some coarse grains, with wheaty bread sweetness and hints of apple juice, white grape and faint grassiness.
It's drinkable, but beyond that there's not a whole lot to say about this one. Gritty coarse grains and bready wheat malt sweetness describe 80% of the flavour profile, with light hints of apple and grassy hay on the back end rounding out the other 20%. The wheat malt notes persist on the palate for a second or two after each sip, but beyond that, the aftertaste is mostly clean. Very light in body, with typical carbonation levels that are assertive and prickly, without being unnecessarily so. Extremely sessionable - there's only three bottles of this in the mixed pack, and a determined drinker could easily plow through the trio in under an hour.
Final Grade: 3.22, a C+. Sleeman's 5514 Filtered Wheat Ale is a very dull, uninspired sort of beer - that is, unless you're willing to count stuff like Grasshopper or Molson Canadian Wheat as being some sort of inspiration. It's better than their Original Draught, I'll give it that - but not by much, and neither brew is one that I'd seek out in the future. 5514 just replaces the corny flavour of OD with a cleaner, wheaty pale malt note - a welcome change in theory, but the end result is still just a tepid, plain Jane summer patio beer that is really only suitable for handing out to your not-so-craft-beer-inclined visitors. Come to think of it, that's basically what I do with the Cream Ale and OD, too...
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