Hopster
New Glarus Brewing Company

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From:
New Glarus Brewing Company
 
Wisconsin, United States
Style:
American Pale Wheat Beer
ABV:
5.9%
Score:
89
Avg:
3.98 | pDev: 9.3%
Reviews:
35
Ratings:
247
Status:
Retired
Rated:
May 10, 2022
Added:
Feb 19, 2015
Wants:
  13
Gots:
  40
This living beer is Dan’s bold Hopped Wheat creation. You hold the return of Crack’d Wheat the marriage of a sophisticated Bavarian Hefeweiss and an American Pale Ale. Amarillo dry hopping consorts with Wisconsin Red Wheat. Traditional Open Top fermentation cultivates our proprietary Bavarian Weiss yeast in our dedicated Wheat Beer Cellar. Absolutely 100% natural bottle conditioned this is a Living beer.

Expect to pour a thick creamy aromatic head. Savor the fierce onslaught of clove, cinnamon, and citrus to your nose. Cheers to discovery and friend.

Only in Wisconsin!
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Ratings by MillerMan16:
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Rated by MillerMan16 from Wisconsin

4.5/5  rDev +13.1%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.5

Mar 23, 2015
More User Ratings:
 
Rated: 3.73 by alexvhrk from Wisconsin

May 10, 2022
 
Rated: 3.99 by robotic_being from Illinois

Jul 18, 2018
 
Rated: 3.5 by Dicers from California

Sep 25, 2016
 
Rated: 4 by Beginner2 from Illinois

May 14, 2016
 
Rated: 3.5 by StoutAtTheDevil from Alabama

Apr 27, 2016
 
Rated: 3.5 by MooseBoose from Wisconsin

Apr 07, 2016
 
Rated: 4.25 by Hopstout from Minnesota

Mar 05, 2016
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Reviewed by OrestesMethuon from Montana

4.37/5  rDev +9.8%
look: 4.75 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.5
I'm genuinely a bit surprised by the *relatively* low marks awarded this beer by the community, as I find it pretty exceptional—a really on-point execution of a style between styles. Wonderful burnished-flax color; furious, fat bubbles throughout; thick, pillowy off-taupe head; tremendous lacing; dry, citric-hop aromatics, with flashes of lemongrass and lemon-oil, hints of orange peel, and a sort of funky wet-hay valence; great mouthfeel, with a measured mixture of weiss-yeast bite and billowing wheat-informed creaminess; and a great combination of flavors, with spicy, velvety wheat, grapefruit bitters, dry grass, wet, immature pine-nettles, clove (they I don't personally pick up any cinnamon), and Kaffir lime leaf all swirling in this refreshing gyre, glued together pleasantly acerbic tart kick impelled by the key inoculation of New Glarus' trusty house weiss yeast.

And the bottle's lovely to boot.
Nov 12, 2015
 
Rated: 4.41 by sweemzander from Illinois

Nov 06, 2015
 
Rated: 3.71 by nuebs from South Dakota

Oct 21, 2015
 
Rated: 3.88 by jdhasse from Illinois

Oct 12, 2015
 
Rated: 3.96 by kjkinsey from Texas

Sep 27, 2015
 
Rated: 3.79 by Texasfan549 from Texas

Sep 27, 2015
 
Rated: 3.85 by Chucker17 from South Dakota

Sep 18, 2015
 
Rated: 3.25 by MattMorin from Illinois

Sep 16, 2015
 
Rated: 3.3 by Screwtape49 from Minnesota

Sep 11, 2015
 
Rated: 4 by jlee922 from California

Aug 30, 2015
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Reviewed by DissentFatsquirrel from Minnesota

2.38/5  rDev -40.2%
look: 3 | smell: 2.5 | taste: 2.25 | feel: 2.5 | overall: 2.25
I don't prefer hoppy beer, and I don't believe that mixture of clove, cinnamon and citrus mix well. It leaves a lingering aftertaste that is not pleasant
Aug 27, 2015
 
Rated: 4.9 by Rand_ale_Thor from Wisconsin

Aug 21, 2015
Hopster from New Glarus Brewing Company
Beer rating: 89 out of 100 with 247 ratings