Fort Collins Major Toms Pomegranate Wheat

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

Major Tom’s Pomegranate Wheat pours a beautiful straw color with a reddish tinge. An ivory head forms, as expected, but disappointingly, it does not last (10-15 seconds or so). The aroma is slightly sweet, but is not very noticeable in passing. You really have to go after it to get the aroma. On the nose of the beer, there is definitely a crisp, tart taste that should be familiar to wheat-ale fans. There seems to be missing the pomegranate part of the pomegranate wheat. Not much fruit taste for this to be a fruit ale. The finish is not as nice as I’d like, almost like flavored soda water. The beer does have a great mouthfeel for a witbier, and if it weren’t for the disappointing finish, I’d recommend this just as a simple session beer if you have it on hand. Not worth seeking out at the store, though.

12 oz bottle from the Four Firkins. Straw color with decent but quickly dissipating head. Decent wheat/yeast aroma with a hint of citrus. Flavor and finish are tangy and tart but I’m not getting the pomegranate from this.... maybe just a hint in the finish. Decent session beer, especially in the summer.

12 ounce bottle purchased at The Four Firkins. Citrus aroma. golden color. Some lacing. Head didn’t last. Sweet flavor to start, but tart finish. Not a lot of pomegranate taste, which I was expecting more of from this beer. Something I might try again but am interested in trying other fruit beers first.

Golden ale, not much of an aroma, pleasant taste very light hops, very light fruity notes.

A hazy golden ale with a thin white head. A rather doughy alt aroma, wiht light hops, and notes of oxidation. In mouth, a nice wheaty malt with some nice hops, a bit floral, a rather nice lasting bitterness, some fruity notes in finale, becoming cloying. Medium bodied. Bottle from Fort Collins mix 12-pack, bought at Half Time, July 2008.

Pours a golden yellow color with a white head. Aroma is some malt, a hint of wheat, and a hint of fruit. Flavor is caramel, some wheat, and a slight hint of tart pomegranate.

12oz bottle brought by a colleague to our departmental picnic - thanks, Robert! Boy, what an affront to Bowie this beer is. Or perhaps I should say that this beer’s self-avowed experimentalism is analogous to one of the Thin White Duke’s less entries, like those bonus tracks on Pin Ups. Anyways, pale cloudy pour, moderate carbonation and an absolutely awful aroma. Nothing complex or subtly tart about it, just a clashing failure of imperfectly integrated ingredients. I actually kind of like pomegranates too, but this beer is a train wreck. And what rhymes with train? Drain.

Just a picked up a six pack on a whim. Pours a nice golden color with a medium sized white head. Aroma of wheat and citrus as well as hops. The flavor is very wheaty with just a little pomagranite at the end. Wouldn’t mind a little more the fruit at the end.