Flossmoor Station Chessie Cherry Wheat Ale

Brewed by Flossmoor Station Restaurant & Brewery
Style: Fruit Beer
Flossmoor, Illinois USA

very cherry aroma. beautiful dark, clear amber. long-lasting, creamy head. great looking beer. however, it is much too sweet, with a cloying cherry. the palate is smooth, but slippery. i can’t recommend this; it is much too cocktaily for me.

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I give this what I consider an undeservedly high rating. It’s a bitter American wheat blended with maraschino cherries. And I’ve loved those cherries since I was a kid. They even put one in my beer, which I ate. If not for that, this would get a much lower rating from me.

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Long lasting wheat-type head emiting a strong tart cherry aroma. The sweetness is not overbearing in any way. Weird bite in the aftertaste that I can’t quite nail down. Surprisingly refreshing, although I can’t see myself drinking more than one at a sitting.

Sample at the brewpub. Cloudy darkish amber, lasting creamy head....candied cherry nose with a faint sourness...sourdough maltiness in the body with some not unpleasant cherry cough syrup...late effervescence and dry sourness is slightly reminiscent of a fruit lambic..this grew on me quite a bit, though not enough that I’d really push it.

Hazy honey-gold. Slight red hue. Frothy off-white head. Strong artificial, maraschino cherry aroma. Slightly syrupy, lightly gritty feel. Sweet, chalky flavour gives way to a mildly tart cherry finish.

Smells of cherries and wheat, big surprise. Reminds be of the Sam Adams versions... bland and with another all-purpose-fruit flavor, like the raspberry wheat.

Pretty weird. More ale than cherry. Again, Flossmoor seems to use the same base beer for both their cherry and raspberry beers, and it tends to dominate the fruit flavors, leaving you wishing they'd put more fruit in their beer. You can't blame the ale for overpowering the cherries, because it's just a golden ale, light in color. Blah humbug!

Clear golden with a puffy white head. Good lightly sour cherry aroma. Body is uninteresting with some pale malt and cherries showing up toward the finish. A step up from Sam Adams.