Lost Coast Tangerine Wheat

Brewed by Lost Coast Brewery & Cafe
Style: Fruit Beer
Eureka, California USA

22oz bottle. A cloudy body of pale honey color sparkles and is topped with a small, foamy white head that retreats to the edge of the glass. Aroma is like a chewable Vitamin-C tablet and pineapple soda. Mouth is medium with light, coarse carbonation for a wet finish. Flavor is like orange soda, but not quite so orangy or sweet. Sugar, wheat, a touch of lemon. It is crisp and refreshing, and I guess it’s pretty good for alcoholic soda.

22oz bottle-pours a foamy white head that dissipates and amber color. Aroma is lots of tangerine, orange, pineapple. Taste is artificial sweetener, tangerine zest, soapy, some grain. Nice label.

Bottle. Pours gold with a fizzy white head. Smells like orange sherbet or orange soda, with a faint wheaty base. Tastes like a mix of equal parts wheat ale and orange soda. Not too bad. It’s drinkable.

Bomber. Pours a hazy pale orange with almost no white head. Huge tangerine nose is spot on! Sweet wheat, citrus, tangerine flavor. Fizzy carbonation. Reminds me of a fuzzy navel. Not bad for a change up or to give a bitch.

Date: 09/13/2008
Mode: Bottle
Source: Tasting

Appearance: hazy gold, wispy white head,
Aroma: big sweet tangerine aroma,
Flavor: sweet tangerine flavor, lots of citrus character, touch of balancing bitterness from a citrus, light bitterness,
Overall: huge tangerine character,

Aroma: 6/10; Appearance: 6/10; Flavor: 6/10; Palate: 6/10; Overall: 12/20
Rating: 3/5.0
Drinkability: 7/10
Score: *4

Tallahassee, Fl.- Liquor Loft - 22 oz bomber. Pours a murky medium orange with absolutely no head - kind of lifeless. Aroma of an artificial orange drink - not juice - but the kind you find at a McDonalds birthday party. Flavor has that same vacant artificial orange-tangerine flavor overwhelms whatever beer likeness this beverage may have. Also find some hints of a Tequila sunrise in here - the grenadine aspects of it. Starchy mouthfeel. Not the most pleasant beer drinking experience.

Bottle. Pours and orange/gold relatively clear body with a very small white head. The nose is Dimatap orange overtop malty wheat. Flavor of rotting orange and wheat, some hints of seltzer water. Has a prickly mouthfeel, which could have been good if the rest wasn’t so atrocious. I know other people who thinks this has a good orange flavor, but I couldn’t get past the Dimatap impression. Ugh, you really couldn’t get me to try this again.

Hazy dark amber with a quickly dissipating white head. Aroma of tangerine, light citrus and sweet malt. Taste of mild tangerine, grains and fruit. Comes in at the lower threshold for a drinkable fruit beer.