Test of Time
Wheatland Spring Farm Brewery

 

A friend picked up a couple of cans and delivered to me 5-31-2023 for $4.00/can. Canned 4-24-23; consumed 10-23-23.

Beer poured a chilled gold with a nice white head.

Nose is nice, old school citrus forward.

Taste follows the nose as this traditional WCIPA uses pale malts to give a white bread base. Hopping gives a traditional orange and grapefruit flavor and finishes with a crisp pine and rind bitterness; 6/10 on my scale.

Mouthfeel is light to medium bodied and is smooth and refreshing.

Overall a very quaffable IPA!

Draft at Beer Run. Cloudy golden pour, creamy white head, solid lacing. Light, sweet, bready aroma. Taste us grainy, smooth and sweet. Creamy, feels so good after some harsh beers today

 

Pours a golden hazy. It's just hazy, it's not thick in appearance. Some Dole pineapple and tangerine on the nose. This is, unlike the pour I had on the farm, quite dry. The pineapple character and tangerine is muted and it is dry and bitter. There's more earthy pine needle and tree bark character than there is tropical fruit. Disappointing.

A little thin in body but tasty and very hoppy.

Can dated 6/9:
An amber-tinged cloudy yellow, nice first pour head size that is slow to fall. Splotches of lacing from thick collar surrounding a large thin island of accumulated bubbles. The beer is soft and welcoming, with a grain-driven opening that is fairly straightforward. A bit of bitterness in back has a little "hop burn" to it.

Nose is a bit of biscuity bread with a bit of floral and light evergreen forest hops. Taste opens somewhat bland, even after warming. Warmth shortens the wait for a flavor beyond the slightly sweet grain tea of the opening. A hint of floral hops doesn't change the taste too much, but a bit of a spicy bite comes in. This turns into the aforementioned burn, although it lightens as I get past halfway through the beer (either I got used to it or it mellowed, not sure). An oat-like woodiness joins a pine-wood bitterness to finish the beer with a slow, lingering bitterness.