Anderson Valley High Rollers Wheat

Brewed by Anderson Valley Brewing Company
Style: Wheat Ale
Boonville, California USA

Bottle thanks to 5000: Pours a transparent bright golden with a stringy-lacing white head. Aroma of smooth mildly sweet wheat and a touch of hops. Starts with decent body and light wheaty sweetness along with a mild bittering hop balance before a smooth finish. Pretty drinkable, just not much going on here.

My Bottom Line:
This simple American Wheat ale offers a few fruity esters (plantanes?) and floral hops to slide along the delicate wheaty tartness, all in a frothy vehicle made for quenching.

Further Personal Perceptions:
-A sheet of foam relaxes atop the clear pale blond.
-Carbonation is frothy and somewhat eases drinkability.
-The back end is rather dry, while citrusy and floral hops decorate.

Bottle.

Bottle. Mostly clear, filtered. Gold with a white head. Sweetened perfume and wheat nose, coriander and potpourri, artificially sweet. Light body, dissolves over the back. Lightly sweetened cream and perfumed lemon. Dull and artificial.

A lightly hazy golden brew with only a small tight bubbled off white head. Aromas of light peaches, roses and bad bubble gum. Wheat malt flavors with little else to back things up except a tinge of watermelon. A wheat ale at its finest!? Lacks many qualities I enjoy in a wheat beer, or maybe it just lack, or maybe I just do not get the American Wheat style.

Lightly hazy blond with light head & lacing. The aroma is musky with wheat but a good citrusy hop base & some yeast. The flavor is musky & a bit bland, lightly tart with some hops & sweet notes. Finishes balanced, a bit citrusy and complex, not too bad.

Bottle from Bello Vino. Poured hazy yellow with an average frothy white head that diminished slowly and produced good lacing. Moderate sweet wheat and spice aroma. Medium body. Moderate sweet citrus and spicy flavor with a smooth light sweet finish of short duration.My expectations where met.

Draft @ AVBC, Boonville, CA. Rating #3000. Pours a pale yellow color with a small white head. Has a wheat malty slightly spicy aroma with some hints of citrus. Sweetish wheat malty flavor wit hsome yeasty hints and some hints of citrus. Has a sweetish wheat malty finish with a crisp aftertaste with hints of citrus.

Straw colored with medium, white head. Hopcit, wheat, and fruit in the nose. Tastes bready malty, with some wheat, fruit, and finishing clove and orange zest. Medium to light palate.