Great Divide Whitewater Wheat Ale

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

This beer starts out sweet and wheaty but finishes like a piece of sushi. Interesting combination. Don’t forget to try the saltwater eel.

At the time I am drinking this, it is a "retired" beer, which seems odd since it seems easily available in at least two states (MN and TX). Perhaps the production has ended. At any rate, it pours with a slightly hazy, moderately dark yellow with a decent head of white, and very fast-moving bubbles in the body. The aroma is all Budweiser, with some sweet corn and cardboard being the most distinguishing notes, and then perhaps a bit of honey and vanilla. The flavor is more citrus in nature, and the palate is softer than I expected of it, flowing rather satisfyingly in my mouth. Not terrible in every dimension but too muted of flavors.

Gold and cloudy in colour. Strange aroma combo of orange blossom, honey, and perhaps throw-up...yuck. It tastes a bit better than it smells, with some citrus notes, but it’s just too damn sweet to be even remotely good.

Milky golden pour with hardly any head. Has that same wheat beer flavor that my palate doesn’t much like. Wasn’t terribly impressed, but big thanks to Kawa or I wouldn’t have had the chance to try it.

Nice cloudy gold. Barely any head to top this thing. A few lazy bubbles wander up the glass. Aroma is orange candy and not much else. The taste is a lemon sourness with some grass. It also has some strange notes of artificial sweetener. A poor wheat beer.

Sampled on tap at Great Divide. Hazy, dark straw color body and a thin white head. Has notes of citrus, light esters, and honey but most prominent character is an odd nuttiness in the nose and flavor that detracts significantly and spoils what would likely be an unexciting beer anyway. Another poor example of a generally poor style.

Poured a little cloudy, gross orangey yellow color...smelled quite mild...citrus, cloves, a little banana...it also had a wet cat food quality to it...taste is weak...very thin bodied...a little spice to excite the sides of your tongue, but otherwise nothing really going on at all...

Cloudy, and pale orange in color, head is a bubblin’, very slim and quickly fading. Slight lemon and spice in the nose...a touch sour, and over-carbonated. Taste is best described as blase’...orange and citrus lay on the palate, a bit too limply. Has the weizen taste, but only a shadow of it, truly, just a sliver. Light bodied, with a short, insignificant finish. Effective only as a quick-acting thirst-quencher, nothing more. Kind of a dud, really, but these bottles will come in handy during the hotter days we have now and yet to come. I’d choose many other weizens for flavor, though.