Great Divide Whitewater Wheat Ale

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

Color is mostly clear, yellow/orange. Little to no head. Yeasty, clove and lemon traces in aroma. Sour ing and watery taste - lemons and apples most prevalent. Thin body, and skimpy on the malts. "Balance" is a word that should be the furthest thing associated with this beer. Lacks the yeasty taste – and sweetening - that wheat beers are supposed to deliver. Watered, sour, very sub par.

Not much to describe the flavor other than old grapefruit, orange candy and milk. Strange it seems, a light and creamy texture with a sour citrus and wheat finish. Overall very sweet with a lingering flavor of orange cream.

Cloudy orange color,small white head that had a short life then faded to a slight lace.The aroma was wheaty and yeasty with a decent citrus side to it.Kind of sourish thing going on here with a decent citrus side and a nice wheat taste to go along with the very mild hops.I kind of detect a bit of some caramel but then maybe i’m just imagining it.Not a very good wheat at all,but worth a try any way,maybe someone else likes it.

Minor eruption on the open, and then it got bad.. Poured a full glass of foam. Couldn’t drink it from the bottle because it was too fizzy and foamed up in the mouth. After the foam settled down in the glass, the beer was flat. The flavor wasn’t bad, but neither was it good. Wheaty, astringent, hoppy. Any first year homebrewer could do better than this. This is unaccepatable for a commercial beer. Sure glad I bought a single instead of a six. Undrinkable.

Hazy yellow-orange body, thin off-white head. Tangy, wheaty, somewhat off-putting aroma. Yeasty body, tangy and fruity, but rather thin, with a somewhat harsh finish. A bit funky in an undesirable way, but not too offensive and certainly not disgusting. Just a boring, unnecessarily dull American Wheat.

Not a very good wheat beer at all, very disappointing, really the only good thing about this beer was its appearance, it looked the part, but that was about it, hazy & cloudy dark yellow color, that was the best part of this beer, everything else was well-below par, there was virtually no head, a very subtle bubble gum & clove nose, but it didn’t jump out like a lot of other wheat beers, the body was too light, not crisp enough, not enough in the flavors, bland & somewhat tasteless, watery finish, not good at all

eww! no wonder it’s retired... smells like feet and it tastes like bad sour fruit. no. well, it doesn’t taste like it’s infected, but it’s certainly a turn-off. and hey, it does look and feel good, but the flavor and aroma doesn’t pair well and both do not offer much justice. so, no. herbal lemon sourness is not what i want. drainpour.

Pours a clear straw yellow with a fizzy white head that quickly goes to a thin collar and then disappears completely.

It’s aroma is sweet malt and wheat and some DMS. Smells a lot like a macro.

The flavor is rather bland. Some sweetness, lemoney citrus and a touch of honey with a slight bitterness at the end. As it warmed, I could pick up a little yeastiness. It has a harsh carbonated mouthfeel.

Overall, a bland and disappointing beer from an otherwise excellent brewer. I can see why they stopped producing this.