Lost Coast Tangerine Wheat

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

Bottle. Orangish pour with a light head. Aroma is purely tangerine. Smells like a satsuma tangerine actually. Flavor is a mix of tangerine, wheat and some tartness. Damn fun beer, but not amazing.

Dull beige. The aroma is all zesty tangerine. Light wheaty taste, with hints of tangerine. It’s ok, but the concept is kind of limited.

Holy Tangerine bomb batman. If you think tangerine soda sounds good, than this is for you.

22oz bottle scored at the Breez Thru in Milwaukee. I’m pretty open and into fruit beers, so I was eager to try it. Disappointing. Semi-murky brown orange color. Pretty much no head, though it doesnt lack carbonation. I don’t get much wheat in it, it is dominated by sweet soda tangerine. Just doesn’t work for me at all. The tangerine flavor is pronouced, but it is too artifiicial tasting. The backbone of the beer is too thin and lacks any depth.

Sample at Burger Bar in Las Vegas. This brew is a cloudy dark golden color with a thin and fizzy white head that burns away quickly. Filmy rings of lacing on the glass. Sweet tangerine and spices in the nose. Light body with tangerine and orange rind flavors, plus some light spices. The finish is fruity with a short malt aftertaste. An average novelty-type fruit beer overall.

Lost Coast Tangerine is a hazy and sparkling ale that lingers between light amber and deep gold, with a hue leaning toward peach. It has a small white head that fades to a film and stays put to leave nice lacing on the glass. It has a bright tangerine aroma, with a note of lemongrass. It is medium bodied, quite bubbly and extremely smooth. The finish is clean. Tangerine is quite prominent in the taste. It is moderately bitter and well balanced. It is a nice, sound, refreshing and satisfying wheat ale serving as a backdrop for tangerine. There is a clean, short, tangerine peel finish. What a great idea. Rather than just trying to emulate citrus with hops, they just went for it.

I’m not going to go into the gory details. This is good refreshing tangerine pilsner. The tangerine is light and bitter.

Clearish golden orange coloured body with a very thin white head. Aroma of fresh tangerines, clementines and a bunch of fake (think equal) sugar. Medium-bodied; Strong malt/wheat flavour with massive amount of metal, fake sugar and potent fake fruity flavours. Aftertaste still bitter from the fakeness all around - not too much pleasant here. Overall, if you’ve had an artifical orange extract/essence in cooking, then had this beer - you’d hardly notice a difference...the fakeness is unreal. Not really worth trying, but I suppose if it’s rare - try it, just don’t expect much! I sampled this 65 cL bottle purchased from Lee’s Discount Liquors in Las Vegas, Nevada on 07-February-2009, sampled at home in Washington.