Dukes Big Ass Beer (Hefeweizen)

Brewed by Jack Russell Brewing Company
Style: Wheat Ale
Camino, California USA

Bottle: Whoa, look at those ratings!!! I’m going to be blowing this one away with a good review here. I got my bottle through the beer of the month club and found it to be a nice made hefe, not exceptional, but certainly not bad. Misty yellow, orange, thin head, nice lacing. Nose of sweet malt and honey, clean tart and citric esters (orange, clove). The flavor is a bit musky, some sweet honey and sulpher notes. Not bad, needs more hops. Finishes a bit tangy and musky.

Hazy light amber with a thin white head. Aroma of boiled vegetables. Bananas in mouth, with peppery note. Bad. On tap at brewery, August 2005.

The aroma is not banana. It is more like citrus hop (or feline ....). Hazy golden color with a white head that filmed, leaving lace tatters. Very thin in body, light, almost creamy, carbonation. The flavor is indeed something glandular, with some clove and mephistolphian accompanyments. The finish is something metallic, with some citric aspects. The finish is astringently dry, and the mouth is not left in a happy condition. Strange stuff. PIne accents appear upon continued assumption (hence the earlier reference to cat ...?). Overall it is not really disgusting, it is just unexpected. So it is what it is. The mouth adjusts somewhat with the passage of time, hence the rating in excess of the average, I suppose.

Straw color, slightly cloudy, small head. Straw nose. Wheat beer, slight hops with slight malts. Mild flavor. Finish is crisp and clean. Aftertaste is slightly hoppy. Not bad but nothing special.

Big Ass Disappointment. Decent head and wheat aroma is followed with watery palate and subpar flavor.

Bottle poured a hazy gold with a minamal head. Aroma of wheat and maybe a little carmel. Flavor was bread with atouch of carmel. Not very good and certainly not a hefe weizwen. It must have come from dukes big ass.

Sea-foam-like head above a deep golden haze with lively, rising, champagne-like bubbles. Yeasty, doughy nose. Watery texture up front, then turns into a spiky carbonation. Has some carbon dioxide bitterness; papery. Burning acidity; sharp, wild yeast flavors. Sour/citric notes overwhelm the light malts. Not much bitterness to speak of. Finishes dry, but tartness makes my mouth water. Doesn't seem to live up to its name... or style for that matter. Wondering if I had a bad bottle.

Hmm... I did not think this was that bad really. For what it was. Poured a hazy orange brown with almost no head. Aroma of wheat, oranges, and light yeast. The flavor was much the same. Nice light orange accompanied by a little sweet fruit and a generic cereal wheat. Kind of thin, medium carbonation. It could have been a lot worse.