Fruit Hog - Grapefruit Wheat Ale
Brewsters Brewing Company & Restaurant - Eleventh Avenue
- From:
- Brewsters Brewing Company & Restaurant - Eleventh Avenue
- Alberta, Canada
- Style:
- American Pale Wheat Beer
- ABV:
- 5%
- Score:
- +9 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.33 | pDev: 0%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 1
- Status:
- Inactive
- Rated:
- Jun 21, 2012
- Added:
- Jun 21, 2012
- Wants:
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Reviewed by biboergosum from Canada (AB)
3.33/5 rDev 0%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
3.33/5 rDev 0%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
A 16oz shaker pint of the latest in Brewsters' Fruit Hog series - strange that the base wheat beer waited this long for some grapefruit treatment - oh wait, there's the White IPA too. Confusion slowly sets in.
This beer appears a crystal clear, golden amber hue, with one skinny finger of thinly foamy off-white head, which leaves some EKG profile lace around the glass as it hastily subsides.
It smells of mild aged grapefruit flesh, soft grainy wheat malt, and some quite tame earthy hop notes. The taste is somewhat tart, almost grapefruit-like, but actually more akin to dry tropical fruit, alongside of a strong, and nicely level grainy wheatiness, and a subtle earthy spice twinge.
The bubbles are fairly reserved, the body a decent medium weight for the broad style, and smooth enough. It finishes well on the fruity side, but still generically so, and more or less off-dry, some menthol notes eventually burbling to the surface.
Overall, an agreeable wheat ale (which the underlying Wild West certainly is), laced with some muddled citrus - maybe the titular kind, maybe not. Pedantry aside, this is easy enough to put back - I could surely have a few more on this warm June evening.
Jun 21, 2012This beer appears a crystal clear, golden amber hue, with one skinny finger of thinly foamy off-white head, which leaves some EKG profile lace around the glass as it hastily subsides.
It smells of mild aged grapefruit flesh, soft grainy wheat malt, and some quite tame earthy hop notes. The taste is somewhat tart, almost grapefruit-like, but actually more akin to dry tropical fruit, alongside of a strong, and nicely level grainy wheatiness, and a subtle earthy spice twinge.
The bubbles are fairly reserved, the body a decent medium weight for the broad style, and smooth enough. It finishes well on the fruity side, but still generically so, and more or less off-dry, some menthol notes eventually burbling to the surface.
Overall, an agreeable wheat ale (which the underlying Wild West certainly is), laced with some muddled citrus - maybe the titular kind, maybe not. Pedantry aside, this is easy enough to put back - I could surely have a few more on this warm June evening.
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