Lost Coast Tangerine Wheat

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

Bottle from River’s Bend. Poured a clear orange color with a moderate frothy off-white head that mostly lasted with good lacing. Moderate tangerine citrus aroma. Light to medium body and smooth texture with soft carbonation. Moderate sweet citrus flavor with a smooth fruity sweet finish of moderate duration. Interesting but to sweet.

Very hazy light orange with a frothy white head displaying brief retention and no lace. The aroma is exactly like Orangina. Full-on tangerine flavour with a detectable wheaty substructure. The finish is a very pithy citrus-peel bitterness that actually is a little over the top for this beer. Not my thing.

22 oz. bottle - Pours a slightly hazy golden color with a 1/2 finger thick white head. No lacing. Aroma is big tangerine. Flavor is oranges and light malt. Very one dimensional beer. Medium body. Worth a try.

650ml brown bottle. Deep golden, almost orange in colour, hazy. Fast collapsing white head. Nose reminds me of lighter version C-plus orange soda which happens to be my favorite orange soda, however this is a beer, should it really smell like that? Artifical or not, I like the aroma. Flavour has wheaty dry malt character with tangerine notes. Some pithy notes in the finish, mild tangerine bitterness. Wheaty aftertaste. Body is light, carbonation is strong. Overall its light, and it is somewhat refreshing, goes down smoothly, and would even moreso in hot weather. I will make a note to try it in the summer heat.

Smells OK, tastes not OK. Not sure what else to add. It smells like tangerine, tastes like a chemical approximation of a tangerine.

Good cap pop. Tangerine scent powers from the bottle. Hazy orange-yellow. Aroma settles down in the glass to a strong orangey scent. Flavour is more orange juice than beer. Bitter orange quality. Very little benefit from the wheat.

Tap at Mellow Mushroom. Reminded me of Sunkist with alcohol and minus the sugar. Very carbonated, like soda. I’m not really a fan of fruit beer, but this was pretty cool. Wouldn’t mind a sip of someone elses...but I probably wouldn’t order it.

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.