Flossmoor Station Rot Geist American Red Wheat

Brewed by Flossmoor Station Restaurant & Brewery
Style: Wheat Ale
Flossmoor, Illinois USA

On tap at the 2007 GTMW: Pours a bright transparent orange amber with a thin, wispy-lacing off-white head. Real fresh sweet dark wheat and lots of piny resiny hops in the nose. Body starts fairly full and toasty malty but not overly sweet with a great balance of crisp, fresh hops. Very smooth, drinkable and flavorful, a great American wheat ale!

Had I not known ahead of time that this was a wheat ale, I never would’ve made the guess. Filling my mug club tapping mug was an unfiltered reddish amber brew topped with a tall, sustained off-white head that left plenty of lacing in its wake. The aroma is rife with a citrusy fruitiness - grapefruit, zest of lemon, tart tangerines - and nearly buries the soft malty sweetness beneath it. The flavor is more balanced (darn it!), the smooth malts supporting the hoppy bitterness that still manages to leave an enduring, bitter finish. Nothing quite beats a fresh I.P.A. American Wheat Ale! Nice job, Andrew & Matt!

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GTMW 2007. Poured a clear orange-red color. with an off white head. Attractive aroma of toffee, malty caramel, and assertive grapefruity/sprucy hops. Dry and bitter with citrusy hops balanced well with malty caramel. Great beer.

on tap at maproom. pours dark red with creamy reddish-white head. nose is very sweet hops. flavor is really sweet hoppy but not too bitter, lots of grapefruit and citrus. wow lots of raw amarillo hop flavor. it’s more like a hoppy red than say, Gumballhead, but it’s delicious. i could get drunk off this stuff. haha. what’s new? anyways, this beer is rich, creamy, hoppy, sweet, and really sessionable.

On tap @ the Brew pub: Pours a clear amber color with an off white head. Aroma, caramel, light toffee notes, some wheat, bready, and some citrus. Flavor, caramel, wheat, with some big citrus flavors as well. Smooth medium body with a nice earthy bitter finish to it. Very nice stuff.

Pours a deep, dark, rusty/copper under a full, creamy head which sheet-laces the entire glass. Perfumed with intense florals, PNW character still pushes through with piney resplendence while a gentle caramel sweetness joins in late. Flavor is sharp & piney but well-grounded by a thick malt background. Though classified a ’’wheat ale’’ this is another ’’IPA’’ which I could drink pint after pint of. Dry finish with alcohol astringence. Damn near perfect. (And then at the end of my notes I drew a little stick figure clapping.)

From an old notebook. I think I had this at the end of last summer at Gene’s party.

Draft at FSRB. Translucent reddish brown like... well, just what color should this be, anyway? Half-finger head looks like a smooth pale ale head than a rocky wheat head. Citrussy hop smell overlaying a light beer malt nose. Taste starts with a big smack of PNW hops: grapefruit, a bit of pine and pepper. Some spiciness may come from the wheat, but it’s to say for sure. Mouthfeel is light, like an English PA, but it gets thicker as it starts clinging to the lips. Hints of orange caramel chews and sweet BBQ sauce further down. Hops build up enough to pucker one’s lips, and leave a nice bitter aftertaste. No alcohol burn, but one shaker is enough to leave you feeling just a shade warmer and happier for having had it.

Hop whore that I am, I was excited to hear that Andrew and Matt planned a Gumballhead-type wheat beer...perfect for these hot summer days. Little did I expect them to come up with this Munster-Buster of a brew! Great amber pour...clear and clean...with a big off white fluffy head that lingers around awhile. The nose is all PNW hopping...grapefruit, orange blossoms, and pine resins. The flavor is hop-forward as well, but the real shocker was I could find zero wheat characteristics, none! Second and third mugs not only confirmed this, but caused me to add a few points here and there with each sample. It grew on me! The hops finish with a dry tongue-tingle of citrus and pine..and yet the caramel malt held it’s own admirably. I can honestly call this my new favorite session beer of the year.