Fort Collins Major Toms Pomegranate Wheat

Brewed by Fort Collins Brewery
Style: Fruit Beer
Fort Collins, Colorado USA

(Bottle) Pours a hazy yellow color with about two fingers of foamy white head. Dusty wheat aroma with a distinct grainy note. The taste is pretty unusual. Sour fruit (not sure if I’d necessarily say pomegranate) up front, then more of a subtle wheat and biscuit finish. It seemed to have a dry, bitter finish. Average mouthfeel and palate. Unusual, and worth trying... but not that great.

This is different, but not terribly exciting. It basically tastes like a hopped up American wheat beer with a faint, very faint pomegranate flavoring. Perhaps the lack of fruit is not such a bad thing, but even the driest funkiest fruit lambics maintain some a distinct flavor of the fruit, with this one I am not sure I would even notice the pomegranate if it were not labeled on the bottle. In other news, this has a nice little head with some good lace, and is a bit watery in texture.

Bottle. Pours a pale golden body with a white head. Wheaty beer with some astringent fruit, tastes like phony fruity esters and a bit metallic. Eh pass on it.

bottle poured a lighter golden color with a thin white head. aroma has wheat, faint fruit, sweetness, wheat, and grains. mouth feel is thin with light carbonation. flavor has a light pomegranate extract fruit sweetness, light wheat body, and some bitters. very washed out with some minerals and bitters lingering in the finish. thirst quenching but not very exciting.

Pomegranate is a very delicate fruit, the extract more so. In tea and other brewing processes that flavor is lost. Even paired with a wheat, there just isn’t any fruitiness left.

This is a nice change of pace. Semi-cloudy yellow with fair white head and Suprising amount of lacing. Fruity fresh aroma. True to the description, it kinda is like a sweet-tart. Wheaty aftertaste. Not bad, but wouldn’t want to drink a lot of these.

12 oz. bottle. Pours a lightly hazy gold with a moderate-large white head that lasted until about mid-glass and left partial lace. Mild aroma of fruit that is difficult to distinguish as pomegranate. The flavor is wheat with that same unidentifiable mild fruit flavor. There is a light metallic twang that kicks in towards the finish as the beer warms. Not something I’d be interested in re-visiting.

12 oz bottle-pours a foamy white head and yellow color. Aroma is sweetish, grain/wheat, chamomile?, slightly off. Taste is musty/sweet grain/wheat, some fruit/chamomile? Is it pomegranate juice concentrate or real pomegranate, read the label-its both. Mild carbonation. Not my taste.