Big Rock Grasshopper Wheat Ale

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

355ml Bottle: Fans of weisse will be disappointed here, there’s none of that to be found. It’s a filtered beer with only hints of weisse to be found. Aroma is awful, just horrible. Not sure why or what causes it but I wish to never smell it again. Pour was decent with a little fluffy white head, golden colour, small streams of carbonation. Flavour is very simple ale with light hints of yeast and citrus, fair amount of hops. Average.

[464-20070728] Sample @ LCBO-Summerhill. Faint corn and grass aroma. Clear, yellow orange body with a medium-lasting bubbly white head. Toasted cereal and light earth flavour. Medium body. Overly wheaty.

Very pale yellow and crystal clear with a thin white head. Slight citrus aroma and some very mild wheat aroma. Very little flavour, some weak malted wheat and a number of different hops. Crisp finish. Not an outstanding beer, but I could drink about a thousand of 'em.

now i kinda lost my mind wiht some of these canadian wheat beers. they are almost all filtered and taste more in the amber range then the wheat range. a toffee biscuity tangy flavored beer served with a lemon like it was a REAL wheat beer. thin and uninteresting.

Slightly rusty golden pour with a clingy white head. Sweet acidic scent. Watery taste, not much going on there. A hint of hops and a touch of biterness in the finish. A very slight taste of citrus in the middle. Definately one of the weakest wheat beers I have had. This used to be a favourite of mine before I had try so many better beers. A poor example of the style.

Golden yellow and headless, this had an aroma of Wheaties, candy corn, and field grasses. Highly carbonated and gassy, this had a grainy wheat flavor with a drop of honey and a light, grassy bitterness. Candy sweet finish.

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Bottled. Poured a clear paler golden with a dusting of white head remaining. Nose was of sweetened banana and wheat notes with hints of honey and lemon... not bad components, but didn’t strike the right chord with me. Quite a bit of caramel and other sweetness across the middle in the flavor... tart lemon and wheaty notes around the tongue were rather well-placed. Carbonation was too high... but creamy otherwise. Didn’t enjoy this.

Courtesy of kiefdog. Pours gold with thin white head. The aroma is grainy, floral and sweet with a modest level of malts. The taste consists of sweet malts, graininess, floral hops and little else. It ends thin and too sweet for my taste.