Eel River Acai Berry Wheat

Brewed by Eel River Brewing Company
Style: Fruit Beer
Fortuna, California USA

Bottle. Pours clear yellow with a one finger snow white head. The nose is sweet wheat and light berry. The taste is wheat and sweet berries. Medium prickly mouthfeel. I had to look up Acai berries as I’ve never heard of it. They supposedly help with weight loss. Beer AND weight loss? Perfect. Refreshing beer too.

Bomber from Headbanger - thanks! Clear gold with a thin white head. Sweet berry nose (acai?) light wheat and dough. Lightly tart berry flavors, wheaty and mild. I found this to be a decent drinker - not sure why it’s rated so low.

Pours a clear golden with a smaller white frothy head 2.5. Tart berry aroma, some wheat, a bit grainy, sweet. Flavor is actually quite bitter, grainy, metallic, tart berry, blueberry, a touch waxy. Medium/light bodied, faint mouthful, soft fizzy carbonation, super quick finish 2.5. eh...

Pretty strong multi-fruit aroma. Rather fake fruity, light flavor. Not great, but not awful.

Cloudy pale straw. Faint acai nose with doughy malts. Faint fruity taste. A throwback to the lame fruit beers of the mid-90s.

Bottle at Zekes with Oakes. part of our swill tickfest! Pours a yellow color with a small white head. I smell blueberries and wheat. Flavor reminds me of seadog blueberry. Better than I thought it would be but not all that great.

On tap at the Spuyten Duyvil in Brooklyn. Pale, straw gold with a white had that faded very fast. Strong aroma of acai, berries, a little grass/wheat. Heavy mouthfeel. Flavor is heavy on the berry, vegetal, grassy. Watery on the palate. Good concept but not enough acai and/or not enough wheat.

Funny guys, put a twist-off marked cap on a no twist-off bottle. Very light straw color with a wispy, foamy, dissipating white head. LIght berry and hint of wheat aromas. Not a bad scent just not much there. Berries in the front. Somewhat fizzy in feel. Drys out until there is just a bit of quinine on the tongue in the finish. A touch citric. Has some berliner weisse qualities, but I don’t know that that was intended.