Big Rock Grasshopper Wheat Ale

Brewed by Big Rock Brewery
Style: Wheat Ale
Calgary, Canada

Here is what I said about this beer when I first rated it: "First of all, this doesn’t have any wheat beer character." I was wrong. In a head-to-head comparison with another local American wheat (Liplock by Nelson Brewery) it became evident that this is unquestionably a wheat beer, it’s just that American wheats are never as wheaty as their German counterparts (that took me some time to get used to I guess). Anyway, I’ve always liked it, probably as much for sentimental reasons as anything. Faint aroma of wet hair and mild estery wheatiness, with a wheaty fresh palate and a soft finish. A terrific summer beer.

Assée rafréchissante avec un légé goût, pas super impressionante. J’avoue qu’il y a pire.

A staple in Alberta Undergrad universities. A nice beer but nothing terribly special Perhaps I’ve gotten a little too used to it, but it isn’t a favorite of mine. I believe that Big Rock brews better products - Warthog Cream Ale and Traditional rank higher in my mind.

341 ml Bottle, 5% a/v. Pours with a quickly dissapating white head, nice golden colour. Fairly bubbly. Honey and malt in the nose. Smells good! Tastes like honey, a tad malty, and a nice hint at grain tastes. Very little aftertaste to be had! All in all a nice refreshing beer! Great for a summer day in a hammock!

Pours a hazy dark golden yellow color. Aromas of malts, a touch of honey. Flavor is the same as the nose, nice malt taste with honey like sweetness. Smooth hop finish, medium body with a quick aftertaste.

Bottle. Nice golden body with good carbonation and a thick but fading white frothy head. Decent malty aroma with bready, floral and hoppy notes. Flavors of Saaz and Cascade hops are quite unusual for that kind of beer. It leaves a nice bitter aftertaste. This is not bad at all, but it lacks conformity to the Wheat Ale style.

A better than average very light tasting beer. Very refreshing. Thin head, mild taste, but quite agreeable. THey serve this on Westjet Airlines, and I feel it makes the flight worthwhile.

Bottle (341ml). Poured a slightly hazy gold with an average off-white tightly bubbled head. Aroma was much more like a generic pale lager - corn, sour damp grains, stale hops, hint of citrus - with a bit of candyish malt and maybe some banana and apricot, but mutates to burned grass on warming - harsh. Taste is pretty bland, vaguely like a mile generic witbier until the harsh burned straw taste weighs in. Mouthfeel very light and pretty lively. Not difficult to drink, but better on draught. Finish is quick and somewhat bitter-harsh.