Bells Oberon Ale

Brewed by Bells Brewery
Style: Wheat Ale
Kalamazoo, Michigan USA

Bell’s Oberon Ale is a clear, bright golden ale with a thin white head that fades to a film and leaves nice lacing. It has a spicy hop aroma; floral, resiny and a touch sweet. Nice. A note of honey lingers in the nose. It has a creamy, chewy medium body and a dry, slightly acidic finish. It’s a crisp and bitter flavor, like citrus tea with a biscuity backbone. It’s a bold and proper use of wheat.

on tap at festival in crystal lake pour was yellow and hazy it could have been the plastic cup with off white head aromas of grains and citrus flavors of the same just alright

Bottle thanks to daknole. Thanks! Batch 9100. Pours a hazy gold with a medium white head that fades quickly. Grainy and somewhat unpleasant aromas… must be the Saaz. Sweet and wheaty, light honey flavors. Finishes with a light bitterness, and a bit of cardboard. Rather unpleasant, and a big disappointment for a Bell’s brew. At less than two months, I can’t figure that it’s old, just not so good.

Not as refreshing as a wheat beer should be, but decently thick and citrusy. I’d rather go German when it comes to Wheats. Tap at Yard House, Coral Gables.

Batch 8995, thanks bitbucket! Hazy murky yellow, some orange, all around blonde i guess. My stuffy nose couldn’t detect much beyond the dry wheat nose. Refreshing with a dusty dry side and a liquid sugar side. There’s some enjoyable depth if I look for it, though I also could drink 6 by the pool and not think twice either. Gets more and more dry as I drink it.

2009 Tap. Mediocre at best, this beer tends toward non-descript-ness and wateriness. Aroma of fruits and light hops, there is a hops and wheat presence in the flavor, but finishes quite watery. Appearance dark yellow-orange with a light white head. Wouldn’t try again.

Had curtesy of Mitch at Mitchapalooza 6. A decent Belgian style white that I would rate ahead of Blue moon but not on the level of Hoegaarden. Fresh, crisp, fruity in flavor this ale is a nice summer beer. Cloudy in appearance and floral in aroma, this is a very drinkable session beer.

Pours a hazy gold with a medium-thick white head. Wheat and a little sugar on the nose. Flavors of wheat, yeast, with a slight hop bitterness at the end. High carbonation and flzvor are very reminisent of a Belgian-style ale. Very good.