Great Divide Whitewater Wheat Ale

Formerly brewed at Great Divide Brewing Company
Style: Wheat Ale
Denver, Colorado USA

Bottle. Hazy yellow with a fast disappearing head. Aroma of fruits and spices. Acidic flavour of fruits and spices.

(Bottle 35,5 cl) Unclear, orangey golden with a tiny off-white head. Very neutral aroma. Light-bodied with a tuch of acidity. No hops, no malty feel. I hope this isn’t how it was intended to taste like. 270106

(12 oz bottle: The Cellars in Roseville, MN) Heavy carbonation in this beer. Lots of carbonation release when the cap was popped, and the pour resulted in a glass that was mostly foam and took 10 minutes to settle down enough to get the rest of the beer in the glass. So with a large, off-white head topping the beer, it smells sweet but very soapy. The first taste is mostly sucking up some of the head, and yikes, it tastes like a tin can. But once I can actually just take a sip of beer, no more tin can flavor. Fruity, sweet, light wheat malts, gently bitter hops, but it still tastes pretty soapy, just as the nose predicted. But there’s also a modest spiciness in the that is reminiscent of Belgian yeast. The medium body is very good for an American Wheat. Medium golden color and somewhat cloudy, but almost all the yeast in the bottle is caked on the bottom. The tall, bubbly head never really settles past a quarter-inch in height, but it’s all large bubbles so it’s not an especially pretty heady. And I’ve noticed that the head just slides down the glass like water off a duck’s back, never able to stick in any way. Might not have been a bad wheat beer, especially with that Belgian character I’m getting, but the soapiness is just too overpowering to completely ignore.

Yellow Coloring with White Skin. Light Wheat, Sweet Malt Aroma. Malty and Wheaty with Dry Aftertaste. Drinkable but Uninteresting.

An unclear orange beer with a disappearing white head. The aroma is sweet wheat combined with notes of oranges. The flavor is sweet wheaty combined with notes of banana, leading to a dry finish. A boring wheat beer.

Very clear for an unfiltered( even American) wheat. Golden with a thin creamy head. Tangy aroma with citrus and yeast. Whoa. Very sour. I think this one is past it’s pull date. The label says the second week of January was the bottle date. I notice that this one is retired. I wonder what year it was bottled.

Very good wheat beer. I’m surprised to see the rating at a somewhat low 2.55. Great taste, slightly sweet and very refreshing, with more than a slight malt character. Decent color and aroma. A quality beer.

Golden color with no head. No aroma to speak of. Spicy wheat taste. This struck me as almost saison-esque with it’s spicy barn flavors, but is a more watery and subdued version of one.