Breckenridge Agave Wheat

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

The bottle pours hazy apricot color with orange hued tan foam. Smells citrusy and grassy with slight alcohol notes. Sweet flavor, tastes like candied pineapple, with earthy citrus rind bitterness. Medium bodied with adequate carb. I think it’s a great summer session brew. And I really dig the dia de los muertos type label.

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.

A solid wheat! Bottle from Cortez, CO. A nice level of cloudiness gives way to a full - not sharp and very smooth - wheat flavor with only mild lemon zest around the edges. Yeast is also surprisingly low-profile.

Bottle from Kegs & Barrels in Plano, TX. Pours a cloudy gold with white fizzy head, dissipated kinda quick. Aroma is citrus, kinda tangy. Flavor is kinda sour, citrus, some light wheat malt. Mouth feel is light-medium body with high carbonation. Overall, I’m not sure if this is an old bottle or not, but I find it tangy and refreshing for summer....I like it!!! But I like sour beers!!!

12 oz bottle. Pours a cloudy light yellow color with a very fine white head that doesn’t last very long. Aroma is of light citrus and a hint of agave and even notes of lime and a wheat twang. It is a bit of an odd combination, but not unappealing. It is almost like you can predict what this beer will taste like just by thinking about it for a second. Agave=tequila. Wheat=wheat. Take a light refreshing wheat beer and add a slight hint of agave nectar (used to make tequila) and there ya go. It is a solid breezy wheat beer up front and then on the finish you get a bit of an agave/tequila taste. Don’t think Tequiza. This is nothing like that garbage. It just has a slight kiss of agave flavor in the aftertaste to give it a nice complexity.

Cloudy yellow. White head. Corn, honey and agave nectar in the aroma. A little lemony too. Flavor is sweet and refreshing. Subtle agave flavors with some light lemon and yeast.

bottle in mixed Breckenridge 12-pack. Surprising and interesting choice to see agave used with beer. Agave is the primary ingredient in Tequila. The beer pours golden with bright thin white head. Aroma has plenty of wheat and refreshing agave juice. I got to try agave extracts a while back and the taste was well alive in the aroma. Taste of wheat with sugary palate from the use of agave. Agave gives the beer a very interesting twist and approach. Light bitter finish with an almost mead/honey like finish.

Good, but different. You can definitely tell that there is something different going on. A little zing at the end, but not so much that it ruins what is otherwise a decent beer. A nice alternative.