Terrapin Side Project Gamma Ray

Brewed by Terrapin Beer Company
Style: Barley Wine
Athens, Georgia USA

Bottles at Milttown and at home. Another miss from Terrapin. Im just not into the big beers like I used to be. Or maybe these just aren’t being done with enough care. But I know how difficult it is to brew well on a large scale so I won’t whine too much. Like many of Terrapin’s beers, I just found this one to be too sweet. The honey is evident on the nose and in the flavor but overall its a bit sharp and slightly astringent. Okay.

Bottle shared with Hophead22 by way of Goryshkewych... A yellow orange beer with a very thin head... Smells of belgian yeast, kinda reminds me of 07.07.07 Epic... Very sweet like a belgian...Very smooth hides the 11% well.

hmmmm........ I love beer experiments as much as the next guy, but I think this stuf missed its mark. Aromas of budweiser and honey. Faintly Belgian smelling and tasting, like a Golden Ale. Not bad, but not good either. If we didnt try new things we would never learn.

22oz bottle courtesy of goryshkewych, and shared with DuffManSW, thanks George.
. Glowing orange/yellow color, very little head. Strange aroma for a Wheat wine, must be the honey, smells like a belgian ale. Very sweet, still strange to me for a wheat wine though, still get theat sweet belgian candy sugar flavor, must be the honey. A little alcohol warmth in the back of the throat.

Bananas and honey with traces of clove on the nose. Pours golden blonde. I had this fresh but i think it aged beautifully! Fresh i got loads of bananas and citrus from the wheat with spicy clove, aged though the honey is far more pronounced, dry honey mead-like flavors with traces of bananas and clove. Excellent beer.

22oz from Sam’s, Durham. Fairly light pour, tranlucent pale orange with very little carbonation. The honey in the nose is very pleasant, if a bit one-dimensional. The body is rather thin, even if the honey and sweet malts manage to make the beer a bit cloying. Slight play of hops and faint spice in the body, just managing to convince me that this is actually a wheatwine as opposed to some lesser braggot. But there’s a real redundancy to this beer, with no real character emerging to me. I felt that a blend with a sharp, dry tripel might have been enjoyable. But on its on, I was less than impressed with this one.

Golden color with a small white head. Aroma is mainly honey. Taste is also mainly honey. It’s very sweet, maybe some malt in the aftertaste. Not much of a hop presence or any bitterness. It isn’t bad, but a little overpoweringly sweet for my taste.

22oz bottle thanks to Moejuck. Pours a hazy golden with a small white head. Aromas of sweet fruit, honey, wheat, banana, and some citrus. Flavors are sweet, very sweet, Im not sure I can get anything else out of this. It’s like Sugar and honey fuct and this is the wet spot on the bed... bottled! Thanks agian Joe!