Boulder Beer Sweaty Betty Blonde

Brewed by Boulder Beer Company
Style: Wheat Ale
Boulder, Colorado USA

You ae wong! If you want a banana spice flavour go to Gentle Bens in Tucson when they brew the wheat beer. Sweaty Betty is perhaps the only Boulder offering that sucks big time. It tasts and smells of fermented armpits. What a challenge! Clothespin your nose and suck it down in one gulp- that is the only way one can drink this. The CIA could use it in interrogation techniques. Forced to drink this the subject would relent after one bottle and tell all.

Bottle. Deep yellow pour little head. Spicey flavors smelled like a olive jar maybe thats me. Would drink again.

Bottle. Cloudy deep yellow color. Banana and spice nose. Wheaty and spicey with flavors of banana, coriander and cloves. Very refreshing.

This beer came a pale cloudy cider color that fades to gold near the bottom of the glass. The head consists of a wide collar of small white bubbles. Smells of sweet honey and creamy wheat with some orange citrus. There’s also a smooth milky yeast that seems to ties this all together. Tastes of doughy wheat and oats with an awesome, milky banana and clove presence. This is followed by a snap of citrus that helps dry the flavors out and helps this finish with a little clove and a pasty wheat. The mouth feel is light to medium bodied and not too heavy at all. This one’s a dead ringer for a Bavarian Weitzen. Well done!

Bottle. Cloudy light amber with lots of bubbles. Fizzy head mostly disappears, aroma of lemon, apple and yeast, a bit like cheap champagne. Flavor was tart, lemon mostly with a strange leafy or lawn clipping finish. Palate was medium but overcarbonated. Less a wheat beer than a kind of soda (fresca maybe?). Nice try, but way off the mark.

Aroma of banana- sour banana at that with some wheat and clove. The taste continues the same slightly sour banana motif the nose establishes. Thin body. Reminds me of Beach Bum Blonde Ale from Anheuser Busch-except I enjoyed that more than this. That was one of AB’s better brews and this may be Boulder’s worst-go figure. "Sweaty" is more apropos than Boulder may have intended.

From a 12 oz. long neck brown bottle with a blurb along the left side of the label. no bottled/freshness date. Poured a slightly hazy pale straw golden, actually a bit cleaner than one would expect from an unfiltered wheat, with foamy white head that settled into a thin lacing. Simple aromas, banana and a very light clove, a trace of spice and fruity wheat malts. Moderate carbonation overall and a softly crisp, smooth light-medium bodied mouthfeel, I could have used a little more body to this brew, a bit thin. Pleasant, but bland, average tasting, banana and a crushed, dry clove yeasty, a lightly tart, sweet fruity wheat malts, a bare touch of spiciness with hints of earthiness and a sweet, slightly tart, wheat malty finish, for me, average wheat ale drinkability. I respect Boulder Beer as a brewer, they have many beers that I enjoy, like their barley wine and IPA, but I have to agree with Sammy, this may be the worst beer in their line, which considering, isn’t really that bad.

12oz. bottle: This one poured a straw yellow color. It was slightle hazy with a thick white head that dropped off rather quickly. Faint whiffs of banana and clove to the nose. The body is rather thin. The flavor isn’t bad, but it is weak. Slight notes of wheat and citrus. OK as a lawnmower beer, but not for any other reason.