Breckenridge Agave Wheat

Brewed by Breckenridge Brewery
Style: Wheat Ale
Denver, Colorado USA

Bottle shared by B-ill, so I can thank him for now knowing what agave tastes like. The beer pours an unufiltered-looking golden color with a thin and soapy white head that dissipates quickly. Wheat and agave in the nose. Light-bodied with a citrusy character and wheat and spice in the background. The finish is clean and fruity with a sweet honey aftertaste. I would probably have this over tequila but that is not saying a lot.

Nose is wheaty with notes of lemon and earth. Also some sweet-ish agave nectar notes too. Rather interesting take on a boring ass style. Pours hazy golden yellow, thin head. The flavor is wheat up front, a little lemon, a little earth, subtle vanilla sweetness, and some fruity agave as well. Crisp and super drinkable. I actually enjoyed this one way more than I expected.

Cloudy orange, thin head. Hint of citrus aroma, with a touch of agave mixed in. There is a bit more agave character in the flavor. Interesting. beer.

12oz. Bottle: Faint aroma of wheat and citrus. Poured yellow/gold in color with a medium-sized, dense, white head that diminished but lasted throughout. Lightly hazy. Slightly sparkling. Flavor is slightly sweet. Tastes of wheat, and a hint of agave. Light body. Thin, slightly chalky texture. Soft to average carbonation. Wheat finish.

12 oz bottle from Supermaket Liquors, Cheyenne, WY; Nose of guava fruits, flowery hops, and wheaty grain; cloudy yellow-gold with a big, glass-lacing, off-white head; flavor is wheaty, with light agave in the background along with very mild hop bitterness; finish is lightly bitter. Good different wheat.

The aroma is only tolerable with what I can only guess is agave to go along with wheat, malted barley, yeast, and a touch of sour lactic bacteria. The appearance is very nice white gold with a foamy head. The flavor is like the aroma with a multigrain finish. The palate is thick and smooth. Overall this is interesting but not good.

Appearance: Pours out a faintly hazed, dark yellow body with a smallish, short-lived, white head, regardless of the steady streams of persistent effervescence. Smell: Mild malted barley and wheat scents with the smallest hints of citrus and spice. I’d say I’m picking up the floral-vegetal tones the agave is laying down, but, in a blind taste test, I may have, in all honesty, missed it entirely. Actually, given some chance to warm (I spent a few minutes trying to compare the tap line-up in front of me versus the menu to see if anything had changed since the last printing), the agave does become a bit more apparent. Taste: Fairly pale malted barley combined with crisp, oh-so crackery wheat along with a light, low level of sweetness. Whereas the aroma left me wondering if I was picked up on the agave or not, the taste has a more clear-cut agave taste, though it’s by no means overbearing because, really, how much flavoring does one need in a light wheat ale? Light hop presence with some hints of spice and lemony citrus and no more than a mild bitterness. Little tastes of wheat and agave preclude the relatively clean, crisp finish. Mouthfeel: Medium-thin body. Medium-high carbonation. Drinkability: Formulated with quick, easy consumption in mind, but, thankfully provides just a bit more character with its added agave flavor than some of the other altogether bland AWA’s on the market.

12oz bottle. Decent lemony zesty soapy and grain aroma that is all that bad. Hazy straw body with white head and decent lacing on the pint glass. Flavor has the zesty lemon to start with but by finish a toasted grain is present along with some pepper. Leaves that grainy taost aftertaste on the palate an easy brew to drink on a hot day here in AZ.