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Harpoon Crystal Wheat


 Percentile 
33
overall
Brewed by Harpoon Brewery
Style: German Kristallweizen

Boston, Massachusetts USA

bottled
common

on tap
available

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 Ratings  Average  Score  Seasonal  ABV  Style Pctl  Serve in 
242.9/5.02.87/5.0Special4.8%51.2Weizen
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Commercial Description:
A crisp, refreshing wheat beer filtered for brilliant clarity. Brewed with a hint of lemon essence to balance the tart wheat malt.
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 Cletus (5002), Connecticut, USA
3.5 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/104/57/103/514/20
Nov 1, 2009  
Pours straw color with a white head. Smells lightly wheaty. Tastes grassy and wheaty with a faint trace of sweet citrus on the finish.


 Butters (1622), Virginia, USA
2.8 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
5/104/56/103/510/20
Sep 9, 2009  
Bottle courtesy of Lithy. Pours a very clear gold with large, quick fading white head. Nose of light clean citrusy grains. Flavor is more intense than the aroma, with a bit of grassy hop and lemon. Certainly doesn’t stand up to it’s german counterparts, but not a bad brew.


 PorterPounder (3132), Tallahassee, Florida, USA
2.4 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
5/102/55/102/510/20
Sep 7, 2009    Updated: Sep 8, 2009
Rerate Bottles two and three were a tad bit better - still not overwhelming with flavor though. Original 2.3 Savannah, Ga. - Habersham Beverage Warehouse - 12 oz bottle. Light golden pour, no head. Stale, dank aroma. Boring taste - some fading lemons, a bit of baked bread. Mouthfeel - thinnish and uninspiring. Will try again as I bought a mixed summer 12 pak.


 CheersMate1 (770), Atlanta, Georgia, USA
2.8 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/103/55/103/511/20
Jul 27, 2009  
Orange/yellow in color. Fluffy head that fades away quickly. Nothing special in appearance, yet it is not bad either. Has a strong aroma of lemons, jeez. Smells like a cleaning solution...? Pungent beer, but in a slightly artificial and annoying way. Oh well... they tried. Lemon is dominating in the aroma, and in the flavor. The lemon phases out into some nasty almost raw tasting lemon. Seems like it should be sour or tart, but it is not. A SLIGHT lemon tart flavor at first, but then it quickly goes away. Overall, I think this beer over uses the lemon. It is just in your face, and seems a bit fake!


 Pastor (509), Maine, USA
2.7 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/103/54/104/510/20
Jul 27, 2009  
Bottle poured into a Weizen Glass it produced a short lived white head that changed to a thick lace. The body was a clear straw yellow in color. The aroma was a light lemony citric smell that was very refreshing kind of like a Sprite in some ways. The lemon flavor didn’t quite work for it. I wish it was a little less sweet and had some more bitters. The feel was great as it was light and crisp so it wouldn’t be bad on a nice warm day. It was light and crisp so easy to drink. If the I had been into the flavor I might have drank mor


 rocbyter (902), Waterbury, Connecticut, USA
2.8 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/102/55/103/512/20
Jul 22, 2009  
Candy wheat aroma with. Clear light orange color with a small white head. Lightly dry beginning with a fruity sweet middle that fades in to the finish. Tangy sweetness at the end.


 Jblauvs (531), Manchester, New Hampshire, USA
2.9 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
5/103/57/103/511/20
Jul 20, 2009  
straw pour, light head. Aroma is of lemon peel and windex, but in a pleasant way if thats possible. flavor is lemon grass, detergent and wheat. Really not bad at all, refreshing and clean.


 argo0 (6861), Washington DC, USA
2.9 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
5/103/56/103/512/20
Jul 12, 2009  
(12oz bottle) Crystal clear straw body topped by small white head. Aroma is medium sweet, banana, some bubblegum, light clove. Taste is banana, some pear, bubblegum. Light body, light effervescence.



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