Pyramid Crystal Wheat

Brewed by Pyramid Breweries
Style: Wheat Ale
Portland, Oregon USA

Taster - Washington Brewers Festival - Kenmore, WA
Aroma – Huge wheat aroma. Banana and grapefruit lingering.
Appearance – Golden in color, Big haze with a thin head.
Flavor – Deep hazy wheat beer with a deep fruit flavor of grapefruit and banana crisp flavors.
Palate – Good Mouthfeel, nice texture with a dry wheat finish.
Overall – A very nice wheat ale that would be perfect for the hot summer days. This did have too much sediment. Can lead to headaches.

10 ounce sample tried at Sacramento, CA location. Spicy, floral, aromatic, lemony, lightly sweet aroma. A bit metallic as well. Decent aroma, but not really characteristic of a weizen. Transparent golden body with a small, white head. Sweet, biscuity, cereal-like malt flavors to start with some light, husky, wheat-like flavors in the middle. Finishes with some citrus lemon flavors. Rather uneventful and pretty straight-forward.

Bottled as Crystal Wheat Ale. Slightly grainy, slightly wheaty aroma, dry. Golden pour with a white, lacing head and plenty of carbonation. Very crisp taste has faint wheat and phenol-tinged bread toward the back end, a slight rubber glove astringency with a poor malt base and peripheral lemon citrus. Light body but not watery. Boring and bland.

Aroma is a little different, it has hints of what my mom used to use for a hair permanent. Ubiquitous pale yellow american beer appearance. Slight slaggy taste. Has a coarse obtuse wet hay palate. A little hairy and bitter on the finish. I knew this really wasn’t a crystal weizen as stated on the label, but overall it’s not bad. Perhaps a little too much bitter personality for me.

On tap at the SoDo brewery. Pours clear light amber with a lacy white head. Fruit aroma. Light, watery body and medium carbonation. A little sour on the finish. Not a memorable beer.

Poured a clear copper body with a small-to-wispy white head. Nose of lemony wheat and mild cascade hops. Slightly fruity from malt and hops balance. Has the distict Pyramid yeast nose. Easy to drink. Slightly chalky. Finishes somewhat dry and thin and slightly tart. A very nice session beer and rather unique for an American Kristall Weizen.

Pours golden with a small white head. Smell is dull, wheat, cardboard and faint sweetness. Taste is fairly bland with some wheaty dullness, light dry honey flavors and crisp bitterness. Medium to thin body and crisp carbonation. Clean-ish with a light muskiness to it. Decent.

Bottle from BevMo. Clear golden color upon pouring. Slightly sweet grainy aroma. Smells like your average American Wheat. Tastes like a million other wheat ales. Grainy with a little bit of spiciness. Drinkable, but uninspired.