Millstream Windmill Wheat

Brewed by Millstream Brewing Company
Style: Wheat Ale
Amana, Iowa USA

Described on the bottle as a wheat lager, this does have the low keyed, smooth palate of such a brew. Golden in color with a short-lived head, the aroma is faint and smells a lot like Wheaties with some lemon juice squeezed on it. A crisply carbonated beer, the wheat is what the flavor’s about complemented by some soft barley malt. No real sign of hops. A decent enough warm weather drink.

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Pours light yellow with lots of carbonation and no head (bummer). A little bit of a malt aroma, very faint. The flavor is very light but surprisingly malty. This would be a good lawnmower beer. I think a lemon as the description suggests would hurt this beer’s subtlety.

Tasting at Immy’s. From bottle. Light yellow pour with no head. Nose has adjuncts and grain. Flavor is more adjuncts and light wheat.

Bottle at Immy’s Tasting on 7-22-06. Straw yellow. Nose is very faint - light grains/wheat and is semi-sweet. Taste is sweet, wheaty/grainy and not much else. Body is light and fizzy. Finishes much the same as it began. A bit uninspired, perhaps. Kinz hit the nail on the head with his assessment.

From Immy’s Tasting, courtesy of Secret Santa Eve! Pale yellow, faint specks of something that didn’t get filtered floating about. Little aroma. Light wheat flavor. Nothing offensive here, but this clearly seemed to be created as a "gateway" beer for macro drinkers. Must admit to finding it refreshing, and a good palate break at the tasting.

Small head, diminishing quickly. Clear amber brew with a light grainy aroma. Judging by the specks of whole grain wheat floating through-out the brew, I think they just crumbled up some wheat bread and added it to water. Not good but had to try at Immy’s tasting.

From Immy’s Tasting. Clear pale amber color with a thin white head. Aroma of sweet grain. Sweet wheat flavor.

Poured crystal-clear deep gold with very light quickly disspating head, nice carbonation, light yeasty taste with plenty of sweet malt, great summer beer and of course I’m biased towards my state’s only real brewery.