Big Rock Grasshopper Wheat Ale

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

Bottle. 5%.Clear yellow pour, no cloudiness, aroma is mild wheat, taste is wheat/grains, mild citrus. Nothing to distinguish this "wheat" beer.

Bottle at the Stampede Casino. Clear yellow. Decently fresh aroma. Grains on the nose. Dry wheaty taste. Just a hint of citrus but could use WAY more. A little bland.

If it weren’t for the lemon wedge on the rim of the glass on a recent trip to Canada, I would never suspect that this is a wheat beer. It tastes, looks, and smells like any ordinary swill, thus the low ratings. Perhaps I’m being too harsh, because the stuff is drinkable, but I decided to take extra points off for not even coming close to the original style.

Can. Pours a very slightly hazy yellow, with a nice rocky white head. Nose is basic macro-like, with suggestions of corn as well as wheat. Some mild spiciness, but precious little. Palate is not at all appealing; broad in the way wheat beers that wheat beers should be, with a nice lemony character, but with a cheap sweet, corny taste, no hops, and very little that is pleasant or redeeming. Sub-par macro garbage masquerading as a microbrew. Drain pour.

Grasshopper a very common beer here in Edmonton and a lot of people order it thinking its fancy because it comes with a wedge of lemon, the only reason this lemon is needed is to drown out the taste of this cheap beer. Don’t get me wrong this beer isn’t horrible it’s just not as good and fancy as the masses think it is. The review was done from the canned version so marks might be lower then they should, Beer starts off all right crystal clear golden body with a good sized white fluffy cap that had good retention. Smell is wheat with some corn coming through very week unappealing aroma, this is where the lemon wedge comes drowning out all fowl odors and tastes. Very bready taste with more corn then wheat so I guess its really corn bread I’m tasting, and that’s all there is for taste, all corn bread malt with no hops. Its still a drinkable beer but not worth the premium beer price.

Can. Pours with an extremely small, white head, with virtually no lacing and a clear, yellow color. As for aroma...doesn’t really smell like much, to be honest, let alone wheat. Body and texture are light and thin, with average carbonation. Duration of the flavor is extremely short... swallow it and it’s gone. I can’t really taste any wheat, either... tastes very light, almost like a light macro beer. Overall it’s ok for drinking on a hot day, but if you want a real wheat ale, try something else.

341 mL Bottle. Clear gold body with a foamy-bubbly white head that settles to a wispy ring, no lacing (obviously this wheat ale has been filtered). Wheat stands out in the aroma along with grains and tangy hops. Wheat and sweet malt make up the flavor with a sweet grainy / tangy hop aftertaste and a butter biscuit linger. More like a macro than a micro.

On tap. Pours clear, pale golden yellow in colour, with little head. Mild aroma and flavour, little bit of wheat taste.