Mountain Sun Arctic Wheat

Brewed by Mountain Sun Pub & Brewery
Style: Spice/Herb/Vegetable
Boulder, Colorado USA

Poured hazy with a little head. The flavor was interesting. The mint flavor didn’t come out until the beer warmed up. The mint flavor was perfect on the hot day I drank this beer. Perfect summer beer.

Thanks to Aubrey and his wife for a good time at Mountain Sun and BJ’s on my trip (with my girlfriend) to Colorado. Good company, good beer. Kinda sweet in a citrusy way, but not too much. A lemon really brought out the flavor. Where were you, Ecrvich? (hahah!) Too bad they don’t bottle this.

Sampler at the Mountain Sun Pub & Brewery, Boulder 12/10/2008 Herb aroma. Clear golden coloured with a spicy lemon grass flavour. Crisp and refreshing. A little wheat in a dry finish.

Draught. Body is hazy medium amber. Aroma is lightly malty (toasted grain), lightly hoppy (flowers), with a note of ginger, light note of honey, hint of sassafrass. Flavor is moderately sweet, lightly acidic, lightly bitter. Finish is lightly sweet, lightly acidic, moderately bitter. Light to medium body, watery texture, lively carbonation. I guessed ginger when I was served this one (and was also thinking about root beer every third or fourth sniff, so I wrote sassafrass down as well), but it turned out it was mainly lemongrass. After the waitress told me, I agreed that lemongrass was apparent, but decided to stick with my original thoughts for the review...it does indeed resemble ginger and sassafrass. The finish is mostly spice bitterness, which is bit more tongue-coating than hop bitterness alone...other than that, the balance is quite good.

golden/hazy thin head. spearamint, wheat aroma. light. minty wheat and light perfume. Different.

This was interesting, I am not sure about how I feel about the lemongrass, but I do like the spearmint as a bittering agent. Tastes kind of like a beer tastes after you have brushed your teeth, clean minty mouthfeel, with a very light butterscotch and cereal maltiness.

Draft at Mountain Sun. Pours orange with a thin head. Spicy aroma-cinnamon and ginger. Ginger in the taste which reminds me more of a Christmas ale.

A hazy pale yellow beer with a smal disappearing but lacingl white head. The aroma is sweet with notes of yeast, wheat, citrus, and hops. The flavor has a nice sweetnes with light notes of wheat, but stronger notes of citrus, that leads to a dry hoppy end, but the body is thin. A very refreshing beer.