Breckenridge Agave Wheat

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

Not too bad of a beer. Cloudy with no head. Lemony wheat taste with a clean finish.

Bottled. Pours cloudy yellow with a white head. Aroma is lemon, wheat, and spice. While it has a good body it still has a light feel to it. Flavor is some wheat and a few spiced citrus notes.

12oz bottle served directly out of the fridge in a shaker glass. Crisp wheat and mildly earthy aroma, maybe a little citrus. Pours goldish yellow with a one fingered white head, active carbonation, and evident bottle conditioning. The taste is crisp wheat and an unfamiliar flavor that is both fruity & earthy, a bit of tartness as well as lemony citrus. There is also a slickness about the beer that is unique but not off putting. An interesting American wheat with a little extra something. Would be nice on the back porch on a hot day.

Sampler at the Breckenridge Brewery 2220 Blake Street, Denver 08/10/2008 Floral aroma. Golden coloured and hazy in appearance with a crisp dry and slightly bitter 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.

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.

pours a cloudy brown shade of yellow topped by a soft white head. yeasty aroma with lots of dry citrus, some wheat, earth and something vegetal. a light metallic like malty flavor is followed by some vegetal sweetness, wheat and a light citrus finish. it feels as if the flavor is a bit watered down. medium body with a watery texture and lively carbonation.

Cloudy lemon yellow in color. The head is reminiscent of foamy egg whites. Nice citrus tang on the palate with an interesting cardboard aroma as a juxtaposition. Overall, an slightly above average wheat but nothing that knocked my socks off.