Lang Creek Mandarin Hefeweizen

Formerly brewed at Lang Creek Brewing Co.
Style: Fruit Beer
Marion, Montana USA

Hazy beige colour. Orangey, fruity aroma. Beautiful blend of superbly refreshing mandarin orange, wheaty acidity and fresh pale malts. Crazy, cool stuff...one of the best fruit beers I’ve had in a while.

Light straw/honey color. medium wheat orange aroma somewhat estery, good clean flavor with just a hint of citrus, medium to light body and motuh feel. overall a very pleasant drinking brew reminds me somewhat of Bert Grants Manderin hefe.

Bottle bought at Yellowstone NP. It’s really cool how Yellowstone carries a decent selection of local craft beers. Pours a clear gold with almost no head. Some tiny white bubbles float around. The aroma is very nice; tons of ripe oranges and some wheat. The flavor was similar; a bunch of mandarin oranges balanced by a good wheat aspect. The finish is all wheat. Very nice and natural flavor. Enjoyable.

A surprisingly cloudy yellow beer. Mandarin citrus oil aroma, like pinching the peel. Same authentic mandarin citrus flavour without being really sweet-- interesting. Finish is dry and acidic. Very refreshing. Truly a nice surprise!

Bottle: Dull straw, quite hazy and thick, slight orange hue, moderate to small fizzy white head, dies quickly, with spotty lacing.   Light mandarin on the nose, a bit wheaty, some orange peel as well.   Tangy mandarin/satsuma flavor, lightly dry, not chalky like other examples.   Clean, fairly wheaty.   A little tang on the exit.   Moderate body and mouthfeel.   Finish, unlike the start, seems a bit unsweetened.   Not half bad!

Pours amber with a white head. Smells of mandarins, dough, some dry malt. Tastes tarte with some touches of mandarines. Decent, but a little thin on the palate.

Sample on tap at the Tamarack. Orange creamsicle aroma. Pale yellow. Creamy white head. More cream flavour with orange on the side. Interesting for the patio perhaps.

Damn, there seems to be half a quarter inch of sediment on the bottom of the bottle. Poured out a liquid that pretty much equals the bottom of a jug of pineapple juice that has settled with some decent white fuzz which acts similar to fine pulp that has settled at the top of a glass of orange juice. The whole glass has a film where ever there was once beer. Very fresh and sour oranges (in a good way, not the out in the sun quartered orange on a plate way) and some wheat. The taste is something else compared to other west coast hefes. Ha! Now I know the flavour! MIMOSA - champagne and orange juice. Wheat and a very weak spice. Fairly thick over all, leaves a heavy coating in my mouth, not quite as heavily carbonated as a mimosa but still, it’s pretty prominent. Kinda creamy as well. Finishes long, fresh and sour. Man, the sediment pile left over is pretty insanely thick and unmovable. Well as far as a hefe goes, this doesn’t really rank too high but getting surprised with a beer that mimics a drink I have once a year during a special holiday breakfast sure as hell counts as something in my books. I would get obliterated if I had a ton of this in the summer.