Terrapin SunRay

Brewed by Terrapin Beer Company
Style: Wheat Ale
Athens, Georgia USA

The aroma is a bit funky from the honey and also has some strange maltiness as well as the typical banana and clove elements. The appearance is hazy white gold with a foamy head. The flavor is like the aroma. The palate is thin but right for the style. Overall a good beer.

Taste test with Paulaner, Terrapin Sunray, and Allagash White. Aroma - wheat, sweet honey, lemon, banana, very light cloves. Appearance - Cloudy yellow with no head or lacing. The same color as Allagash but less cloudy. Taste - Light, wheat, citrus, sweet Overall - It has a kind of awkward finish. I taste the sweetness from the honey which is nice but I think it doesn’t quite balance as well as it could. I give this last place in taste but tied with Allagash in value b/c this stuff is priced very well.

Poured to a light orange-red with some head and lacing. Nose was somewhat faint, but contained hoppy fruit (apples), and wheat dough, and the taste picked up on these with about the same strength. Mouthfeel was pretty thin, and almost leaned toward grainy, and the finish was likewise. This is better than a BMC attempt at a wheat beer, but not much. Definitely not one of Terrapin’s best efforts.

Bottle from Steve, thanks. Wasn’t expecting to much from this one. Okay tasting American wheat but this really doesn’t do it for me. My least favorite "type" of summer beer.

Location: 12 oz bottle from Greens Discount Beverage - Atlanta (Buford Hwy), 5/14/09

Aroma: Lemon, wheat, honey, banana
Appearance: Hazy golden color, almost no head
Flavor: Sweet refreshing wheat beer, a little spice there too
Palate: Smooth and light, refreshing
Overall Impression: Not a bad wheat ale at all, a nice refreshing summer brew.

**5/27/09 - Just submitted a Photo for this one as well, as it was missing one.

SpringsLicker’s Fish Fry. Sample from a bottle thanks to illinismitty. Clear yellow with a white head. Honey aroma, light clove spice. Taste is simple clover honey, some clove spice, sweet lemon citrus.

On tap at Tyler’s. Pours very pale hazy yellow. Thin white head. Big banana nose with some clove, citrus, and a good bit of yeast and wheat. Palate is nice and medium dry though some sweetness lingers. This might be the most banana-forward wheat beer I’ve had. An easy summer drinker.

12 oz. bottle courtesy of a trade with GAManiac. Pours a cloudy yellow with a moderate white head that lasted through the first quarter of the glass and left virtually no lace. Pleasant aroma of wheat, bananas and cloves. The flavor is quite a bit different from the aroma and is mostly dominated by bubblegum along with some cloves and just a bit of banana. An enjoyable wheat beer.