New Glarus Crackd Wheat Ale

Brewed by New Glarus Brewing Company
Style: Wheat Ale
New Glarus, Wisconsin USA

Thanks, Cheeseman. Strong aroma of lemons and wheat. Flavors follow. Pretty damn good wheat beer.

Bottle , thanks to CaryTheDude. Wow this is one of the best looking Wheat beers I have seen, a slightly hazy golden body with a huge fluffy white head,loads of lacing ,medium carbonation. Aroma is as good as it looks, yeasty,wheaty,with a hint of herbs,lemon,bananna,and clove. Flavor is right on creamy clove banana, bubblegum, cinnamon, a little grassy with some nice little citrus notes, creamy mouthfeel,ever so slightly dry with some nice yeasty and spice aftertaste, Very drinkable, I could down glass after glass of this tasty brew, Well done New Glarus !

Bottle and served in my smaller Ayinger glass: Pale and slightly hazy golden hue with a huge fluffy head which left excellent lacework upon the glass. WOW, that nose is intense, the piney and leafy hop vapours combine with the spicy and fruity wheat yeast esters to create something that is unique and takes some getting use to. Some of the weizen characteristics are push way back by the hops. The flavors seems to clash more than accent each other. Add the astringent and metallic mess of the aftertaste and you got a beer simply done wrong. Give me a NG Black Wheat, Solstice Weiss, Copper Kettle, or Dancing Man over this any day of the week!!! Utterly disappointing in it’s lack of execution. A wheat beer for those whom actually dislike wheat beers.

12oz bottle. Pours hazy yellow, capped with a huge white head. Aroma of citrus, earth, banana, wheat, clove and spice. Flavor is initially wheat, banana, peach, marshmallow, and clove. Earthy hops enter towards the finish, and cling to the palate for a while. Solid beer.

Having tried this a few more times, it just doesn’t work for my tastes. Strange one indeed and a let down for NG. Cloudy dark gold colored body with a billowing off white head. Pineapples and bananas were up front in the nose with some more floral characteristics. There is also some raw bread dough and a little bit of clove. The taste is strong clove spice with a dry banana peel finish. I love the nose here, but the taste is a little dry and woody for me. The finish is nearly ashy after drinking a little more. I am normally a huge NG wheat beer fan, but this just doesn’t come together for me. I will definitely rerate on my next bottle.

(12oz bottle, courtesy of Bman1113vr) Pours a cloudy yellow body with a small white head. Aroma of wheat, banana, clove, citrus, and cinnamon. Flavor of citrus, wheat, floral, clove, cinnamon, and banana.

bottle by way of nobelsquirrel... then a bunch after! a nearly cloudy golden yellow-y brown colored pour is covered by a huge fluffy, soapy and wispy white head. it leaves behind a ladder of foam rings and lots of machine gun funk spotty lacing. lots of musty wheat and bananas (bitter peels and sweet flesh) on the nose... also noted are orange, clove, earthy coriander, grass and bubblegum. lots of citrus (orange flesh, lemon and grapefruit peel) sensation balances out the richness from doughy yeast and the flavor of banana. in between there are notes of bubblegum, clove and it’s bitterness, green hoppiness and a warmly spiced finish. the medium to full body is creamy and rich yet is kept in check with spice, citrus and a deliciously unrelenting bitterness which increases as it sits.

flavorful, refreshing and easy to drink? great! 9/5/9/5/19/4.7

I thought quite highly of this as a wheat beer, as I thought it had a lot of really good German hefeweisse flavor (more like a Franziskaner than an insipid American Wheat beer). There are some brewers that do a really poor job emulating European, particularly German, styles (I’m talking about you Sprecher), but I thought this beer was a great recreation of a good European hefe...with the slightly viscous, hazy, straw colored body, big white fluffy head, or tasty spiciness. But I didn’t get the American Pale Ale-ness of this beer. Quite solid, but a bit of a miss according to the brewer’s description.