Chelsea April Showers Spring Wheat

Brewed by Chelsea Brewing Company
Style: Wheat Ale
New York, New York USA

From some of my notes--Draught at Brazen Head, designated as "Chelsea Spring Wheat." I’ve also seen something around named "April Showers and May Flowers." I’m assuming it’s the same thing here unless another entry is made. Cloudy amber pour. Slight spice and fruit in a wheaty malt aroma. Bready/biscuity malt flavors with some spice and citrus along with some herbal and floral notes. OK, nothing great.

Off notes 4/2007. Pours a clouded amber with a huge amount of bubble rising up. Fragrance is a slight citric one. Flavor is pretty smooth and a light wheat taste, though not much to it. Feel has a regular amount of bubble on the tongue and a pretty hearty liquid feel. Drinkable and smooth, but it is a pretty light version of a wheat brew I say.

Draught at House of Brews, 51st. Cloudy copper reddish colour. Medium-sized head. Bready and a little raspberry. Head clings to the glass. Hints of raspbeery in the flavour. Quite dull.

Very cloudy, dark amber beer with a thick creamy white head. Very low aroma, a bit of wheat and doughy yeast. No real spice or malt complexity. A bit of low wheaty spice and dirty dishwater malts. Not worth a damn.

On tap at the brewery. Aroma is funky. A few dots of lace on cloudy gold. Some wheat, unfiltered taste. Lots of malt. Carbonation bubbles rising. Moderate sourness. Sour was negative on palate. Medium mouthfeel.

A really bitter, bitter wheat in the American Wheat style. Lingering hop backlash makes for unpleasant drinking. Had this in April and it's back to being called April Showers Spring Wheat. The color was good, though: hazy, murky copper-color. Not very wheaty at all.

I had this in May and it was named "May Flowers Spring Wheat". Clever, but the bartender said she is pretty sure it is the same beer. Softer palate than other beers here, though still plainly carbonated. Hazy copper body. Dull aroma. Lingering bitterness. Oh so dull. I can't even be inspired to describe the flavors, to the extent that there are any.

Not at all a wheat beer, had very little notes of being a wheat beer at all, the fruit flavoring (rasberry) was way too overpowering, all you could taste was the fruits in this beer, no nots of clovers or anything like that, pretty much a very disappointing wheat brew