Marzonis Highway 22 Wheat

Brewed by Marzonis Brick Oven & Brewing Co.
Style: Wheat Ale
Duncansville, Pennsylvania USA

Date: 07/24/2007
Mode: Draft
Source: Brewpub

opaque yellow, fine white head, lots of drippy lace, odorless, creamy body, light wheat flavor, touch of wheat tartness, low bitterness

Aroma: 4/10; Appearance: 7/10; Flavor: 5/10; Palate: 7/10; Overall: 9/20
Rating: 2.6/5.0
Drinkability: 7/10
Score: *4

(Duncansville) Fluffy off-white head with cloudy lemon yellow body. Aroma is medium sweet, clove. Taste is medium sweet, clove, light lemon, somewhat dry finish. Light-medium body.

5 oz sample at the brewery. Has an extremely hazy, milky white appearance, 100% opaque and almost muddy looking, like disolved white bread. First taste is sour peach skin and rubber (seriously, it tastes like how condoms smell, for lack of a better descriptor). Filmy and milky on the palate, it finishes with more of that rubber twang and some lactic sourness. It’s not a stretch for me to say that this needs work, but I imagine the regulars like it a lot. That’s how it goes.

Turbid gold pour wit lemony, hopcit aroma and taste. Smooth, citrus finish. Nicely done.

Light citrus, wheat aroma (though some of the citrus may have been from the lemon wedge). Cloudy light amber gold with no head (sampler glass, lemon oil from rind perhaps). Medium body with light to medium carbonation. Nice wheat taste, bazooka gum aromatics, banana. Starts light bitter, touch of sweetness, light acid. Good malt ester finish and medium bitter. Lemony bitter after. I’m not a fan of American wheats, but this was very well done.

On tap @ Duncansville. Pours a hazy yellow with a small soapy white head. Citrusy fruity nose with some hay and bready malt. Thin flavor, just a little doughy malt with a citrusy spritzy finish. Pretty thin in body with moderate fizzy carbonation. Overall, just a little weak on all fronts.

On tap at the Marzoni’s in Allison Park. Here it has been renamed Wildwood Wheat to appeal to the local yocals. Served with a lemon that was promptly removed. Hazy swirling unfiltered pour. Wheat beer appearance and the color of lighter lemon ade. Cannot detect any spices in there and I like that, way too many beers of this genre are overspiced. Tho there is an absence of spices, the olfactory senses a small amount of tartness. No head. This beer is very nice and easy to like. As a wheat lover, I can appreciate this brew. SImple and witbier like. Has a slight mild building bitterness with each sip. Clean tasting with tingling carbonation. Well behaved, with manners. A really good example of what an american wheat can be like. This stuff is so refined and simple it borders on the quality of Hoegaarden. Except for that slight mild bitterness, this stuff is great. One of the better american wheats I’ve ever tasted. Thanks Marzoni. This probably should fall under the witbier style as it blows away most american wheats.

Sampled on draft at the brewery this beer poured a very cloudy pale yellow color with a medium sized white head. The aroma was yeasty, dry and had a noticeable banana element. The flavor was banana, bubblegum and bitter malts with a hint of citrus underneath. There was a long bitter finish.