Big Rock Grasshopper Wheat Ale

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

I like some wheat beers. This was a little too bitter and not full of enough flavor for my liking. Didn’t even go really well with a good bread I have. Fairly light though.

Excellent for an easy drinking, all day sort of beer. Quite good, but there are better wheats out there. Give the Paulaner a shot!

Clear urine with urinal foam head. Aroma and flavour are very sweet at cold temperatures. Bitter and noticeable alcohol at near room temperature. Boring, but very refreshing and enjoyable.

very disappointing (from a can). nice thick head that dissipated in about 10 seconds. hints of wheat, but mostly standard lager. nice hop aftertaste. Overall, an ok beer, but the taste swings too close to the macro side to give it any strong ratings.

very dry wheaty taste. not much aroma to speak of. looks like most bears, yellow/gold color.

bottle: An old stand by for the summer or I want a light beer to drink with flavour. Not as good as Erdinger or Blue Moon (without the cheap Molson malts) but superior to Hoegaarden by far. Not alot to talk about here: thin puffy white head diminishing quicly, with golden colour. Right away you can tast high quality, sweetish malts which also come through on the finish. Some spicy notes but nothing crazy. This is a high average wheat ale, dont’ turn one down, especially on tap.

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.