Star Trek The Next Generation Symbiosis
Federation of Beer

12oz bottle - no indication on the label as to what kind of brew it is. A Star Trek The Next Generation 30th anniversary ale.

This beer pours a clear, bright medium golden yellow colour, with two fingers of puffy, loosely foamy, and bubbly dirty white head, which leaves some rocky formation lace around the glass as it quickly bleeds away.

It smells of bready and doughy pale malt, a lesser cereal wheatiness, muddled domestic citrus flesh, and some plain leafy, weedy, and floral green hop bitters. The taste is grainy and crackery wheat malt, orange and white grapefruit citrus pith, an ephemeral yeastiness, and more earthy, leafy, and musky floral verdant hoppiness.

The carbonation is pretty tame in its bored-seeming frothiness, the body a decent middleweight, and generally smooth, nothing getting in the way of a good time here. It finishes off-dry, the grainy and citrusy elements most predominant in their lingering prowess.

Overall, this is a nice, refreshing, hoppy wheat beer to help close out summer for another year. Easy to drink, simple, and easy to forget. And no, I will not be watching any re-runs of the eponymous TV show - had enough of that crap with roommates years ago.