A Hui Hou
Long Beach Brewing Company
- From:
- Long Beach Brewing Company
- New York, United States
- Style:
- American Pale Wheat Beer
- ABV:
- 5.8%
- Score:
- +9 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 4.12 | pDev: 0%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 1
- Status:
- Retired
- Rated:
- Nov 23, 2022
- Added:
- Nov 23, 2022
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
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Reviewed by BloodSoakedAleMug from New York
4.12/5 rDev 0%
look: 3.75 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 4
4.12/5 rDev 0%
look: 3.75 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 4
A Hui Hou - "Until we meet again" in Hawaiian
An American wheat ale fruited with guava, papaya and tangerine.
Look: Pours an opaque, slightly hazy deep golden yellow with a half finger head of fizzy foam. Head retention is non existent, fizzling away immediately after the pour. Leaves no lacing.
Smell: Aroma of sweetened porridge and fresh baked sugar cookies with notes of tangy guava and mango. Some bitter tangerine rind and orange peel on the back end. Some pleasant notes of candlewax as well.
Taste: Very interesting. This has quite a long finish to it, with lots of savory wheat / white bread notes to it as it lingers on your tongue. Upfront the flavors are sort of timid and restrained, I'm getting very, very soft notes of papaya and slightly sour guava - before the malt comes into play and essentially takes over the entire experience with a very long, protracted finish that has a sort of orange creamsicle / frosted mini-wheat note to it. Very interesting and somewhat complex, my only complaint is that the initial fruit flavors are somewhat short lived and fleeting.
Feel: Very light for the style, but not over carbonated and soda pop-y. Mouthfeel is somewhat thin / medium bodied with very low carbonation. Sweet, somewhat watery yet still sticky to the tongue. It's sessionable at least.
Overall: I have mixed feelings on this. It's certainly not a bad beer, I just feel that the body is conflicting with the flavors being showcased here. On the one hand, you have a very easy drinking, malty ale with some sour hints of tropical fruit. Yet on the other you have a thin, somewhat anemic ale with very little "oompf" to the initial fruit flavor with this paradoxically long and protracted aftertaste of wheat and sweet malt flavor. I don't hate this but I'm not absolutely in love with it. My first ever beer from these guys, didn't really know what to expect. I'm pleasantly surprised yet at the same time a little disappointed - it would help if there was a date on the can so I could see if my beer is fresh . . .
On a side note, LBBC needs to start dating their cans. It's 2022. No reason for craft brewers to not date their stuff - at this point anyone not dating their beer is either a.) willingly trying to sell stale / spoiled beer to maximize profit. And/or b.) too cheap/lazy/uninformed to care about their beer's freshness. It had to be said, there I'm not happy about it either but it's the truth, there's literally no reason not to have a bottled on date on your beer.
Nov 23, 2022An American wheat ale fruited with guava, papaya and tangerine.
Look: Pours an opaque, slightly hazy deep golden yellow with a half finger head of fizzy foam. Head retention is non existent, fizzling away immediately after the pour. Leaves no lacing.
Smell: Aroma of sweetened porridge and fresh baked sugar cookies with notes of tangy guava and mango. Some bitter tangerine rind and orange peel on the back end. Some pleasant notes of candlewax as well.
Taste: Very interesting. This has quite a long finish to it, with lots of savory wheat / white bread notes to it as it lingers on your tongue. Upfront the flavors are sort of timid and restrained, I'm getting very, very soft notes of papaya and slightly sour guava - before the malt comes into play and essentially takes over the entire experience with a very long, protracted finish that has a sort of orange creamsicle / frosted mini-wheat note to it. Very interesting and somewhat complex, my only complaint is that the initial fruit flavors are somewhat short lived and fleeting.
Feel: Very light for the style, but not over carbonated and soda pop-y. Mouthfeel is somewhat thin / medium bodied with very low carbonation. Sweet, somewhat watery yet still sticky to the tongue. It's sessionable at least.
Overall: I have mixed feelings on this. It's certainly not a bad beer, I just feel that the body is conflicting with the flavors being showcased here. On the one hand, you have a very easy drinking, malty ale with some sour hints of tropical fruit. Yet on the other you have a thin, somewhat anemic ale with very little "oompf" to the initial fruit flavor with this paradoxically long and protracted aftertaste of wheat and sweet malt flavor. I don't hate this but I'm not absolutely in love with it. My first ever beer from these guys, didn't really know what to expect. I'm pleasantly surprised yet at the same time a little disappointed - it would help if there was a date on the can so I could see if my beer is fresh . . .
On a side note, LBBC needs to start dating their cans. It's 2022. No reason for craft brewers to not date their stuff - at this point anyone not dating their beer is either a.) willingly trying to sell stale / spoiled beer to maximize profit. And/or b.) too cheap/lazy/uninformed to care about their beer's freshness. It had to be said, there I'm not happy about it either but it's the truth, there's literally no reason not to have a bottled on date on your beer.
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