Demo Tape Eleven Side B: Double Dry Hopped Wheat
Exhibit 'A' Brewing Company

 

Melon, stone fruit and pine. Fairly large cracker malt base. Lower in sweetness and overall flavor. It's whatever. Drinks somewhat heavy for such a light beer.

Can stamped 07/10/17

Foggy peach hue with minimal white creaminess sticking around the edges. Fruity green hop aromas: lime, pineapple, mango, herbs, and a bit of pine. Creamy orange and lime citrus, soft wheat, berries, light grass, subtle honey notes. Fluffy, low carb, drying to a highly refreshing finish. Very nice.

Picked up a can of this at Julio's yesterday.

A - Poured into my duvel tulip a nice hazy golden orange hue with a two finger white head that fades rather quickly to leave a very thin wispy head and no lacing.

S - Aromas of nice tropical notes, pineapple, little bit of mango. Almost tooti frooti like. Little bit of bubblegum along with nice citrus notes, pleasant orange. Really aromatic.

T - Taste is similar to the nose though far more muted. Little spicy hop thing going on, not much tropical flavour though there is still a citrus bubble gum taste. Loads of banana flavour and esters. Little bit of creamy wheat and just a little bit of bitterness on the finish. As it warms some floral grassy notes come out.

M - Mouthfeel is lightly carbonated, crisp though comes across as a bit thin.

O - Overall this was a solid hoppy wheat offering from Exhibit A. The nose was very aromatic and enjoyable.

Serving Type: Can

 

16oz can dated 7/10/17 and served in a tall glass. Beer pours like pale, unfiltered cider. That is, extremely cloudy, even for a wheat beer, and a sickly peach yellow color, which doesn't resemble beer much. To be fair if there was any sediment in this it was pretty viciously agitated in transport.

Aroma is just nuts. Simultaneously big on floral aroma but also carries a huge, fruity ruby red grapefruit smell. It smells a bit like a sour. Flavor is instantaneously on the tart side, with the hops making their citrusy flavor known down the center of my tongue rather than bringing in loads of IBUs. I could swear there's added fruit juice in this. Wheat serves as a blank slate to highlight the citrus hop flavors. I'd guess there's no barley malt in this, because it would have taken the body of the beer in a totally different direction. There is, however, honey, which in this beer serves to provide a fully fermentable sugar to dry out the final beer. Think of a deconstructed German Hefeweiss served with lemon, except with more wheat, and with ultra modern American style hop utilization.

Enough describing the beer -- do I enjoy it? Yes I do. It's refreshing and quite sessionable (4.2%). It could be classified as a session wheat IPA -- as long as you like your session IPAs heavy on the dry hops. Oops, there I go again. On a warm humid day it's just what I wanted, flavorful and exciting, with neither heavy alcohol nor heavy malt nor heavy bitterness.

 

 

 

Canned 7/10/17, "auto-reverse" no idea...

Pours a small fizzy head that fades quickly, super hazy murky wheat like pear tan colored

Nose big hop forward, citrus out front with lemon and a little yellow grapefruit, plenty of pineapple, a little papaya, a little pine sap oniony note in the background, plenty of creamy wheat, a little banana like ester I think, maybe a little fruity pear like, and stone fruit notes

Taste brings creamy wheat, a little toasty, some honey notes in the background but very mild, into hops again, fair bitterness out front, plenty grassy and floral, with a little pine sap and dankness, into fruits, citrusy with mild lemony grassy notes and more grapefruit skin, back into pineapple and a little passion fruit, maybe papaya as well, or even mango skin, more honey late, with a drier finish, gets pretty bitter as well.

Mouth is lighter bod, a little creamy, lighter carb.

Overall not bad, I like the base, hops add some really nice characters mixed with a touch of pine sap and onion which are not so great, bitterness gets a little heavy at times as the base wheat and malt can't back it up, and lack of carbonation is a little rough, but otherwise a nice beer.

 

16 oz. can dated 07/10/17

Pours cloudy hazy pale gold with a frothy white foam head. Smells super hopped up with large notes of grape, grapefruit, orange citrus peel, pineapple, wheat, honey, sweet onion, chives, with dank floral earthy herbal grassy pine. Tastes a bit lighter with notes of grape, grapefruit, orange citrus peel, pineapple, wheat, honey, some sweet onion, chives, with dank floral earthy herbal grassy pine. Feels medium-light bodied, creamy with moderate smooth carbonation. Overall a real nice double dry hopped wheat ale with honey.