Fruit Hog - Watermelon Wheat Ale
Brewsters Brewing Company & Restaurant - Eleventh Avenue

The current seasonal offering in Brewsters' Fruit Hog line of fruit beers.

This beer arrives in an ice cold glass, with a small wedge of watermelon attached. It looks to be a hazy medium golden colour, with one finger of thin foamy white head, which leaves a crystallized wall of lace around the glass as it sinks away. The aroma is of softly sweet wheat malt, and sugary tropical melon. Flavour-wise, the crisp wheat malt delivers, as does the fruit - cantaloupe, unripened honeydew - as well as some faint earthy hops. The carbonation is a tad on the low side, the body medium weight and smooth. It finishes in kind, with a narrowing sweet fruity earthiness.

I didn't think that you could get much in the way of watermelon flavour in a brew, beyond the actual fruit being plopped into it, but this comes damned close. The fruit is there, and ethereal enough to not overwhelm a decent wheat ale.