Papago Six Shooter Imperial Wheat Pale Ale

Formerly brewed at Sonoran Brewing Company
Style: Wheat Ale
Phoenix, Arizona USA

Another winner from Papago. Not like your normal wheat beer. This one is a hopheads delight. Six different hops in it and they even have the beer run through fresh hops right before serving.

Creamy, grapefruit C-hops are emboldened by confident pears…Pilsnerish bitter hay accompanies the hop bitterness adequately into the finish…A somewhat malnourished body can still carry loads of interesting qualities…

On-tap at the brewpub: After finally deciding after much discussion with the Staff and Gusler, I decided to start the evening with this brew. It was still early evening and pretty hot at the time and I didn’t want to start off with the heavy stuff. But just after I ordered it I then saw the 7.6%. Whoa nelly, here we go! Color is a clear bright slightly pale gold, nice firm white head thats small and compact, lacing in sheets the whole way down. Aroma is wheaty sweet, sticky, buttery, crisp, with a nudge of mild floral hops underneath. Taste is all malts, and a wonderful supply of them, nice sticky sweetness of wheat and chewy malts that has unique crispness at the edge of every sip. Quite tasty. Hops add some floral spice nearer the finish but more sweetness wipes the palate clean before the finish drips away clean and malty. Feel is nearly full, well rounded and super clean and lightly buttery smooth, with an edgy zip of hops in the middling finish and ends overall dully sweet and fruity. Gone in no time and making another choice was soon to be had as this was an amazingly fine wheat ale to consume. Very well crafted and super yummy.

Clear golden body with white head. Aroma is sweet, honey, some wheat. Taste is sweet, wheat, some herbal bitterness, finishing sweet alcohol. Medium-full, some sticky. Not as "heavy" as I2PAs, but the refreshing quality that a wheat should have is missing as a result of the "Imperial"-ness.

Nice American hop aroma, lots of citrus and piney notes. Flavor is sweet, lots of malt and wheat flavor, with a nice mix of hops and alcohol in there. Pretty full-bodied. Far from your typical American wheat beer, more like an IPA that happens to have wheat in it.

A remarkable complex beer. Delictable aroma of wheat, hops, and some spicy notes. Flavor is well balanced, smooth flavor with the bitterness well contained. The aftertaste is a little dissapointing. A little bland maybe too dry, or maybe it was just my palate at the time. Still a very well balanced thirst quencher. Seek it out if you are at Papago.

Draught @ Papago

This is a new creation from Ron the master brewer, and one I’ve been eagerly awaiting since he told me about it, “Woo Hoo” it here!

The beer fresh from the tap pours a translucent gold with a majestic bright white heat that is creamy in texture; the lace forms a nice sheet upon the glass. Nose has a nice mild hop floral aroma, backed my sweet malt and a touch of yeast, strikingly crisp and fresh with the start lightly sweet and the wheat profile pleasant, the top is middling in its feel to the palate. Finish is prickly in its acidity, the hops magnificent in their spiciness, quite dry after taste, with the dry hopping a nice touch, a great summertime beer for us desert rats, as the thermometer is hitting the century mark now and will stay that way till the end of October.