Leinenkugels Sunset Wheat

Brewed by Leinenkugel Brewing Company (MillerCoors)
Style: Wheat Ale
Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin USA

Draft at Malt and Vine. This is kind of a deadly little session beer. They’re really not kidding about the oranges thing. Pours cloudy bright medium amber/orange. Dense but shallow moussy tan head. Bright citrusy, orangey nose. Creamy, ever so slightly grainy body. Nice biscuity wheaty flavors underneath a nice lightly spiced wash with sweet citrus up top. Clean, somewhat sweetish finish. This isn’t a super forceful or memorable beer but it sure would be easy to drink a bit of.

Pours hazy orange/gold with a small white head. Massive coriander and orange peel nose. Floral? Purfumy? not sure how to describe it, but potent for sure. The coriander is a bit overwhelming, when I used to help out in a brewery and used to grind coriander the smell was great, drinking that same smell is a bit to much.

A tasty brew with apricot and blueberries in the forefront. Yeah, blueberries. Who’da thunk? There’s little more to speak of other than that, yet I still believe this is slightly underrated. Would have again if the opportunity presented itself and I’m in the mood for a light ale.

Don’t get me wrong: I will drink this almost any time. But the more I drink, the more I am inclined to use the word ’cloying’ on this beverage - a word I have never used. Very smooth, very fruity (like Fruity Pebbles, as my Utah kin like to say) like oranges and apple juice. The best or worst thing to happen to the western US in some time.

Poured a cloudy yellow color below a thin white head. Sweet orange peel scent. Light citrus flavor with oranges and banana combined with the feel in the mouth made me think of watered down pulpy orange juice with alcohol.

I’m not really big into wheat beers....and most of the time I think its because of a strong soapy taste....and this beer is the biggest offender of all. It tastes like someone took dishwater and poured it into a bottle. Terrible taste, hard to swallow and nothing really redeeming here at all. Yechh.

I just broke wind (so the rating here or the beer’s aroma) might be less than good. The appearance is mediocre, the flavor is mediocre, the palate is mediocre, the overall impression is that this is far inferior to the Berry Weiss bier by Leinenkugel’s. Man...stinks.

Cloudy straw colored with a white head. Big fruity aromas - citrus more than anything else. Wheat spicyness and citrus flavors. A little too much of everthing and not enough balance.