 zebracakes (1214), Washington DC, USA
May 21, 2007 At the Monroeville, PA location. Part of a large sampler. Hazy orange with white head. Aroma is weak cherry and malt. Flavor is the same; a bit like diluted cherry cough syrup. John Harvard’s beers do not have much complexity.
FROTHINGSLOSH (1961), GREENSBURG, Pennsylvania, USA
May 1, 2007 Sampled on draft at the Monroeville PA location this beer poured an orange-amber color with a small white head. The aroma was light sour cherry. The flavor was sweet cherry with a lightly roasty malt underbody and a long sweet cherry finish.
weeare138 (933), Collegeville, Pennsylvania, USA
Dec 29, 2006 On tap at JH - Wayne, PA...
Appears a semi-transparent haze of pale gold with a small white head of foam that quickly fades away. Tiny speckles of lace quickly slip back down into the average sized collar.
Smell is of some tart wheat, lemons, perhaps a tiny dollop of cherry...albeit I would’ve never guessed that’s what it was had I not been shown the beer had 44 lbs of cherries added. Power of suggestion? Smells like a typical American Wheat to me.
Taste is of the mentioned aromas with a hay like presence, along with a doughy yeast lingering.
Mouthfeel is light bodied, mildly tart and bitter with a lip smacking sweet tartness.
Nate (2533), Indiana, Pennsylvania, USA
Dec 19, 2005 Draught at Monroeville. Very weak aroma. A bit of cherry fruitiness but overall very weak. Light malt sweetness and cherry skin tartness. Hazy orange-amber with thin white lacing head. Light bodied with medium carbonation. Starts with little character, mild carbonic acidity. Has mild cherry notes at first then the hops kick in and I’m left with a light astringent chalkiness. Watery weak finish and mild wheatiness.
DocLock (4648), Lower Pottsgrove, Pennsylvania, USA
Apr 25, 2005 Pours hazy golden pink with aroma of hopcit, wheat, cherries, lemongrass. Tastes of hopcit and cherry, with a half decent complexity.
scraff (1920), Baltimore, Maryland, USA
Apr 22, 2005 DC - Draft. Clear pinkish amber, thin white fizzy head. Nice nose on this one with a grassy, cherry pie, wheaty thing going on. Was told it was a 50/50 blend of sour and standard cherry, and that seems to come out nicely in the flavor. Somewhat tart with a very light sweetness up front, but blended nicely with the wheat and light hop notes in the end. Light bodied, prickly carbonation, tart cherry finish. Nice lawnmower session brew for the spring and summer...
blank (998), Washington, Washington DC, USA
Dec 30, 2002 A nice light change. A wheat beer with a nice cherry flavor. Definatly a good trip to Harvards!
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