Middle Ages 11th Anniversary Double Wheat

Brewed by Middle Ages Brewing
Style: Wheat Ale
Syracuse, New York USA

Not what I was expecting. Color is nice dark gold. Head is thick and white. Rather clear and filtered looking. Aroma is primarily of pine. I get a bit of wheat in the palate along with some citrus and a resiny mouthfeel. Some bitterness at the end. More pale ale than wheat.

(bottle - 22 oz) Slightly hazy orange in color with a thick and puffy white head and lots of carbonation. Aroma is really grainy and loaded with wheat along with some bananas, cloves, yeast, and orange peel. Flavor begins with a nice and resiny pine flavor followed by a bitter and hoppy middle and a piny and bitter finish. The fruit aromas aren’t very present in the flavor. Finishes like a really strong IPA rather than a wheat beer. Not too bad.

Bottle from Clark and served in a weizen glass (this is a wheat beer right?) Well it pours a clean deep golden hue with a huge long lasting egg white frothy head and outstanding lacing. The aroma has very floral qualities with herbal and slightly pine hops at the forefront in addition to musty yeast, wheat husks, biscuit, mild grapefruit, even more mild banana, coriander, and some DMS. The taste is surprising with a sweet malty and fruity base with a dash of resin hops towards the finish. At first I did not care much for the flavor profile but after a couple of swallows, I started digging the interesting play of flavors much more. The finish is peppery and herbal which lasts a tad too long actually. The mouth feel is sticky and gummy dry, this is one area of the brew that needs major improvement. I like this beer and could see a tweak in recipe to take it over the top, need a bit more attenuation, a bit less piney hops and perhaps a touch less yeasty overtones (or more a German style yeast quality). Consider this a wheat "barley" wine when consuming it.

Tap at Barcade. Slightly hazy pale golden beer with a thick pillowy head. Sticky and lingering. Incredibly perfumey aroma, coriander, lemon peel, light peppery ethanol, intense wheaty character and a fragrant, perfumey spicy nose. Falvour is quite peppery, with overtones of apricot, peach and yeasty spice. Herbal bitterness cuts through what might be cloyingly sweet. Nice wheat wine style beer with an interesting intensely yeasty component.

One bottle from BOTW. Average white head. Aroma of hops and wheat. Flavor of wheat, spices and citrus. It was good, but it was better after I added some lemon to it. Luckily you could feel the alcohol, but not taste it. Very refreshing.

This wasn’t like any wheat beer I’ve ever had. Light gold/amber color (I think, I don’t have a white wall to hold this up to). Smells of piney hops and pumpkin spice. Flavor is a wonderful balance of hops, malt (roasted?) and wheat. Very smooth, well balanced, with a slight alcohol kick at the end.

Bottle. Pours clear gold with thin white head. Aroma is peach, apricot, and malt. Flavor is the same and slightly bitter. I thought this was an excellent beer.

I had a sample of this on tap and it strikes me as pure and unfiltered but leans more towards a yeasty flavor than a wheaty one. There is some nice complex spiciness embedded but the finish seems a tad bit unbalanced.