Rock Art Whitetail Ale

Brewed by Rock Art Brewery
Style: Wheat Ale
Morrisville, Vermont USA

Bottle. Pours a gold with a little white head. Aroma was honey and grapefruit. Taste was sour and dry like sawdust. Also a flavor of grain perhaps corn. Palate was dry.

Pours a clear yellow gold with a medium white head. Aroma of light spices, banana and bubble bath. Taste is light spicy with hints of grass, banana and grain. Average.

From my recently discovered notes. Consumed October, 2003. 12 oz. bottle. Pours a mostly clear gold with a thin white head. Aroma smells a bit like barnyard straw and there is a metallic element as well. The flavor is similar. Weak hops at the finish.

Pours a mostly translucent golden with a touch of orange and a smaller bubbly white head. Aroma of grass, touch of lemon, cooked vegetables some grains. Flavor was kind of grassy, corn, cereal grains and some hop bitterness and not a whole lot more.

Foamy white head with clear pale body. Bready aroma. This is not a wheat ale as far as I can tell. It is what it says it is on the bottle, a golden ale. Basically, it is a hoppy, though not that hoppy beer, with a modicum of complexity... not a wheat ale...

(12oz bottle, best by December) Small white head that diminishes quickly atop lightly hazed amber body. Aroma is medium sweet, orange, apple, some pear. Taste is medium sweet, apple, some cherry, light seltzer. Undercarbonated light body.

Pours a limpid yellow straw color with virtually no head to speak of. Half a dozen streams of steady carbonation. Shy grainy aroma with a hint of tin. Bland. Excessively hoppy flavor in that first sip, only to have it settle down the longer I go towards the bottom. Too much hop character for a wheat. Little wheat smoothness observed. Shadows of lemon in the background, but they’re too far away to truly perceive. Tinny metallic flair at the end. Thin, almost macro-ish mouthfeel. A downer.

This bottle thru the courtesy of jjpm74, thanks John! Sweet metallic aroma. Pours slightly hazy with an almost, but not quite orange color. Leans more toward the beigish yellow color. Very strong malt initial hit that fades rapidly to a more enjoyable american wheat flavor. Interesting how the flavors of this develop, first bitter and strong, then increasingly mild. This is with each sip, not during the overall session. As a wheat lover, that initial bitterness is a little difficult for me to absorb. I lean more towards wheats that are not too bitter. Medium tingly carbonation. Even tho this beer has a stronger malty or alky like impact on the first sips, the finish of this brew is mild and well behaved, cannot detect hardly any residual bitterness on the finish. After you take this stuff into your mouth, the bitterness just keeps running to the background and all that is left is a little citrus rind flavor that eventually fades to a satisfying finish. Easy to enjoy once you get over that in your face introduction!