21st Amendment Hell or High Watermelon Wheat

Brewed by 21st Amendment Brewery
Style: Fruit Beer
San Francisco, California USA

cloudy straw colored beer, with a watermelon wedge if you get it at the brewery. the first time i had it, tasted like fresh cut grass. upon subsequent sessions, it tastes like a good wheat beer brewed with watermelons, as it should. the essence is more of the rind than the fleshy red part. so good, though. can drink this forever

Thanks to Bob for the can! Poured slightly hazy bright golden with a great initial cap of white head that settled quickly. The aroma picked up tart, lemony wheat with juicy watermelon rising as it warmed up.. very summery, but it still worked. The flavor found dry, tangy wheat throughout, with watermelon again giving significant influence.. tart lemon zest and watermelon seeds on the finish. Lighter-bodied with a crisp feel on the palate.. this was an interesting and enjoyable brew.

12 oz can. pours a very light crackery golden with a somewhat lasting moderate head. Aroma is a slight sweet extract watermelon- fruity, not as grassy or phenolic or harsh as you can get with lots of old real watermelon added to the ferment, stil pretty light and crackery. Flavor is even less watermelon, somewhat cracker- and toasty malts, grassy, light lemon hint and a crisp clean somewhat bitter finish- light and easy drinking. Not bad, but nothing great.

33cl can @ Jens C.G. Pours unclear pale yellow with a small creamy white head. Nose is sweet of fruit, butter and watermelon. Medium and smooth palate. Chewing gum - pink Hubba Bubba style. Quaffable.

Slightly hazy golden with a small white head. Aroma of caramel, butterscotch and fruit. Fruity sweet flavour with watermelon, but also bubblegum

Can from 38th and 2nd street corner deli. Pour looks initially decent with a hazy straw color and fluffy white head, which fades quickly. Taste is yeasty.. fruit flavors are obvious but not tasty. The only watermelon I am picking up is the white part of a watermelon that’s near the skin.. I feel like it tastes more like a cantaloupe? A musky hay flavors are in the aroma and mouth as well. Overall, not impressed but it could be worse.

Can as a gift from my buddy JCB. Pours hazy dirty-orange with maybe the faintest pink tint. Quickly disappearing head, and then it just sits there looking a bit unattractive. Nose is wheat, watermelon, and some funk that one might get from a Belgian saison... not quite as good, but not bad. I dig it. Taste kicks in the watermelon even more, even a bit like candy, but still some funky wheat/yeast notes that are unexpected but welcome. Maybe this is a gimmick beer, but who woulda thunk it: I like it.

THOUGHTS: I didn’t think I’d like this much, because I’m not big on watermelon, but there really isn’t a ton of watermelon there. It is definitely fruity, but if it wasn’t call what it is, I don’t know if I would have guessed what fruit was in it. I should have tried it in the summer. It would have been a great thirst quencher during those three weeks that were actually hot. I gave it a bonus point for being better than the sum of its parts. TECHNICAL: Can. Poured a hazy, light yellow with an average to large, white head that mostly diminished. The aroma was light candy, fruit and slight watermelon. The initial flavor was lightly sweet and lightly acidic; while the finish was lightly sour. It was fruity with a little wheat, and slight watermelon. It was actually like drinking the juice that drips onto the plate after a slice of watermelon is consumed. The light body was a little watery then dry with fizzy carbonation and an extremely light astringent finish.