Blue Mountain Rockfish Wheat

Brewed by Blue Mountain Brewery
Style: German Kristallweizen
Afton, Virginia USA

Bottle courtesy of dkachur. Pours gold with a generous white head. Smells of wheat, citrus, bubblegum, some grass and hay. Tastes lightly tarte and bitter with a nice citrussy finish.

12oz bottle. Clear golden amber color. White head. Appears to be filtered. Aroma of banana and wheat grain. Flavor has a nice cereal character. Along with fresh banana flavor, a hint of citrus zest, and grassy hops. Finishes with a bit of hop bitterness and a lot more banana. Yum.

1/5/2008:On tap at brewery. Pours crystal clear golden with good head. Strong taste of malty banana balanced with some spice. Straightforward for the style, but very nice nonetheless. 7/4/7/4/15/3.7 4/15/2008: FINALLY they bottled the stuff. 12 ounce bottle from Whole Foods Charlottesville. Pours a pale copper tinted straw color with a small head. Little lacing. Aroma is spicy banana. Taste is pretty much the same. A little thin bodied, but very drinkable. 7/4/7/3/14/3.5

On tap at the brewpub, perfectly clear gold with a decent head. Aroma is heavy on the banana with clove spice lurking in the back. Banana esters and clove phenols also dominate the flavor, with a light wheaty malt finish. Surprisingly tasty for what is normally a watered down take on wheat beers. Good stuff here.

7/20/08 - Draft sample at brewery. Clear yellow with white head. Nose is wheat malt and yeasty banana. Taste is banana and slight clove with good malt balance. Good lacing and body. Nice beer.

(bottle) A clear gold body with a small, fluffy white head. Full aroma has lots of banana, some spice, sweet malt. Medium bodied, creamy, and slight fizziness.

A second take from a full bottle, having reviewed it initially from a very small serving: A clean looking, light golden blonde. Head retains alright, not a lot of lacing. Malts, cloves, sweetgrass. Some bubblegum aromas that float around quite nicely. Bubblegum, clove, and a grassiness. Banana as it approaches the finish, but quite mild. A touch of bitterness towards the finish that seems a little out of place, but still a decent experience overall. A little sticky, but not so much as to really damper the experience. As it gets warmer, this has a little more of a draw, and I can see myself having it a few times over the summer. It may start to seem a little bit thick after a few, though.

Draft sample at the brewery. Pale gold, clear, with white head. Aromas of straw, lemon, wheat, and some faint banana/bubblegum. Flavor is slightly tart lemon and wheat, lively carbonation, with a clean, drying finish. Tasty stuff, much better than many American takes on the wheat beers.