Butte Creek Creekside Wheat

Formerly brewed at Butte Creek Brewing Company
Style: Wheat Ale
Chico, California USA

Date: July 12, 1997
Mode: Bottle
Source: Beer by Mail
Appearance: cloudy yellow, whispy head
Aroma: slight spicy hop aroma with a hint of fruity sweetness and clove
Flavor: light and hoppy flavor, slight fruity character, good lingering bitter finish
Overall: not very wheat-like

Date: June 09, 2005
Source: ww tasting
Aroma: light spicy fruity clove aroma
Flavor: good amount of hop flavor, light bitterness in the finish
Overall: a cross between a wheat and a pale ale

Aroma: 8/10; Appearance: 5/10; Flavor: 6/10; Palate: 5/10; Overall: 13/20
Rating: 3.3/5.0
Score: **+/4

The score was calculated based upon the notes and an old scoring system.

(12oz bottle) Cloudy golden with quickly diminishing white head. Aroma is medium sweet, lemon, banana. Taste is medium sweet, herbal, light banana, lemon -- moderately hoppy. Crisp light body with some acidity. Seems like a good fit for a hot summer day.

This beer rocks. It’s unlike any wheat beer I’ve tasted. I think it’s about 65% wheat malt and 35% barley malt. Nice aroma, but not spicy or fruity like most wheats. Very floral. Hopped like a pale ale or mild IPA. Wheat ale? Interesting and delicious. HOPHEADS, this is your wheat beer.

According to the descriptions, this has aspirations towards being a hefeweizen. In reality, it’s a mediocre American wheat, clear golden in body with a modest white head. It smells of Wheaties witha very slight hint of banana and a light zest of lemon tartness. The wheat remains in the flavor and the banana is lost. The lemon zest turns into a bitterness that lasts into the finish.

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Poured a murky amber color with a small off-white head. Aroma of bananas and tangerines with a light yeasty splice. Sweet malt flavor with banana going from the middle to the finish. Bitter dry finish.

Its label touts it as an "unfiltered wheat beer", though I struggled to find the wheat notes. Hazy, yellow-orange hue to this brew. Nice flavor, although slightly watery and a soft carbonation. Not a bad interpretation of a German Hefe-Weizen.

Jax Package Store - Sandy Springs (Atlanta) Ga, 12 oz bottle. Pours a murky, medium golden with a thick bubbly white head. Odd aroma, not unpleasant, brief band-aids, some nectarine fruitiness. Crisp flavor with some faint estery notes, brief bitter hopiness and so\me doughy maltiness. Runs the gamut, but does not excel lin any. Thick enough mouthfeel. Not a bad American wheat, not one of my more sought out styles.

Only slightly clouded. Quite hoppy - Cascades? This is an Imperial American Wheat and tastes like something Stone Brewing or Sierra Nevada would come up with.