Grand Lake White Cap Wheat

Brewed by Grand Lake Brewing Co
Style: Wheat Ale
Grand Lake, Colorado USA

A little wheaty in the aroma. Looks okay. The flavor is actually pretty decent. Definitely has some light fruity characters and a nice finish. Good.

Draft at the brewpub in Grand Lake. Pours a slightly hazy golden with a nice frothy white head. Aromas of citrus and yeast and some pepper notes? Flavor is sweet citrus and a bit of bitterness in the finish. Palate is thin and watery.

Bottle poured a cloudy gold witrh a small lingering white head. Aromas of bread dough, yeast and a hint of citrus. Palate was light to medium bodied and crisp with a smooth finish. Flavors of wheat, yeast, light honey and a hint of citrus with a smooth yeasty finish.

12oz bottle, from aplusbreaks, thanks Austin. Cloudy yellow pour with a white head. Nice citrusy aroma, slightly sweet. Smooth drinker, a little citrus, kind of thin. Good session beer.

A 12oz bottle. The beer poured a cloudy gold with no head to speak of. The smell is very faint and fruity. The taste refreshing and light wheat. Good carbonation.

[Colorado Road Trip – 2006] A deep yellow and cloudy brew. This was a nice wheat beer. Light in the body it was a very refreshing brew to drink at 8,000 feet.

The summer months always crowd the store refrigerators with variants on the wheat beer. Each tries to look more cooling, quenching, and satisfying than the rest. “White cap wheat” makes an excellent marketing decision, combining the intensity of a boating excursion with its refreshing, even frigid dangers. And that’s what drinking a beer should be like, apparently. Despite its namesake, the White Cap doesn’t have a white cap. This allows the drinker to stare curiously down straight into the deep gold brew and take in a nutty pilsener-esque smell, noticeably absent of wheat and other grainy aromas. I catch a tiny hint of lemon, which I always in this style, but it’s faint, and does little to remedy the beer’s uncomfortably flat palate. The aftertaste has a rewarding flavor “pick me up” in the form of a pepper and beef jerky spiciness, but this too does little to fix up the generally underwhelming character of this beer.

Slight bread aromas with some citrus notes. Hazy gold, medium frothy head. Slight grassy scone sweetness, mild bitterness. Medium carbonation, lighter body, dirty bitter finish. Mediocre beer, not horrible, but very forgetfull.