Lancaster Strawberry Wheat

Brewed by Lancaster Brewing Co.
Style: Fruit Beer
Lancaster, Pennsylvania USA

Well, this beer tasted like something for a sore throat. I wasn’t expecting much and I didn’t get much. It was like drinking strawberry flavored Alka-Seltzer. Fizzy and chalky. I didn’t really taste the wheat and the strawberry flavor was artificial. I swear it tasted like strawberry Alka-Seltzer.

Had this after a very strong beer, so my taste buds may have been off. I needed something lighter to go with a meal. This was definately light in all areas, I didn’t note the wheat that I had hoped for, more of a strawberry kool-aid approach. Not terrible, but not great.

12 oz bottle. Light brown to dark copper pour with a thin short lived white head. Aroma of strawberry extract, very candy-like. Flavor is all strawberry extract with very light wheat detectable. Medium bodied and slightly syrupy on the finish, light fine bubbled carbonation. this beer is pretty much a train wreck. The strawberry flavor is artificial tasting, syrupy, and overpowers any positive qualities that may have been present in the wheat beer base. I’m sorry for ever having sent this to anyone, even if it were a bonus.

Smells of cheese... not expected.Foggy orange color. Sweet finish with the strawberry aftertaste. Yeasty, but not as much strawberry as I would have hoped, very watery in feel oin the mouth, nothing special elsewhere on the tongue. Not a brew I would ever pick up again.

Bottle courtesy of kramer17801. Orange-red like tinit in color no head. Aroma and flavor very muted, faint strawberry and slight skunk setting in. Absolutely no wheat character whatsoever. Very thin body.

Save yourself the trouble of finding this beer, go to your 711 and find strawberry cough syrup, it tastes about the same

12 oz Bottle from Kramer17##: Pours a dirty light brown color with a thick, quickily fading off-white head. The aroma is light on the strawberry, a little bit of lemon, grass, urine, and a lot of doughy bread. The taste is of a dry old strawberry. Not a lot of beer in the taste, but not a lot of strawberry either. The overall taste is like a diet/health (not good, but not expecting a fruit beer to be great, right?, even though I really enjoy them) strawberry granola bar. Not a whole lot of anything (maybe freeze dried strawberries like in cereals would be the best description). A dry quick hitting taste and mouth feel with a faint lingering of old strawberries. Not my favorite fruit beer.

I don’t consider myself a negative person, but I was extremely disapointed by this beer. I am easy to please with most beers I drink. I’ll even drink a mainstream domestic if it’s all that’s there, but I disdain this beer. I picked up a six pack because the name sounded enticing and I happen to enjoy a good flavored wheat beer. I was wrong. The strawberry flavor tastes too artificial, yet not strong enough. It leaves a bad taste behind and I can’t understand how anyone could enjoy this. I considered the possibility that I may have purchased a bad pack that was skunky, but the store I frequent is very good, and carrys a good number of lesser known beers. I hope this company makes improvements to it.