Three Floyds Gumballhead

Brewed by Three Floyds Brewing Company
Style: Wheat Ale
Munster, Indiana USA

Hazy golden pour with tremendous white foamy head. Aroma is grapefruit and Amarillo hops. Flavor is very hoppy and citrusy. Mouthfeel is good and this is a very sessionable beer. This is one of the best wheat beers I’ve had.

Maybe I got a spoiled one, but this didn’t have much oompf. It was thin with minimal flavor and no aroma. I love the alpha king, but this isn’t in the royal family.

On tap at FFF, 9/22/07. Hazy golden beer with nice white foam, very nice lacing. Big Amarillo hop nose, little bit of light maltiness in the aroma also. Very nice wheat malt flavor and great mouthfeel, tends to beat you up with the hops just a little too much.

It is a very unconventional wheat beer. Banana flavors with a hopsy aftertaste, delicious. I’ll agree with a couple of the other raters, it taste more like a IPA than a wheat beer but that definately doesn’t detract from its deliciousness.

Bottle:Trade prize. The heavy aroma of hops made me think this was more of an IPA than a wheat beer. The nuances were very expressive as I took the first taste into the realms of the ale. The medium light body reminded me with banana that this was a summer style beer, but one that I could easily drink all night.

Bottle. Pours an deep golden body with huge head, in fact it took me forever to empty out the contents of the bottle. Aroma was very pleasant, very floral smell. Flavor was nice, very hoppy for the style, heavy bitterness. While this is a good beer, it’s not one I would grab again. It seems to have an ever changing taste and feel to it. It’s feels like it is a step or two away from being great.

On tap at Map Room (Chicago). This cloudy yellow ale poured with a decent off-white head. The flavor is quite interesting - fairly hoppy with a candy-like taste and a sharp bite at the finish.

Date: August 25, 2004
Mode: Bottle Conditioned
Source: Trade
Vintage: 2004
Appearance: hazy peach, thin fine white head
Aroma: wonderfull sweet grapefruit aroma
Body: light body
Flavor: nice sweet malt flavor with just the right amount of hop flavor and bitterness
Overall: a ton of flavor in a lighter red wheat and amarillo beer, awesome

Aroma: 8/10; Appearance: 6/10; Flavor: 8/10; Palate: 5/10; Overall: 17/20
Rating: 3.9/5.0
Drinkability: 8/10
Score: ***4

Date: July 07, 2005
Mode: Draft
Source: Cellar bar
Vintage: 2005
Appearance: hazy yellow, frothy head
Aroma: light citrus and floral hop aroma
Flavor: light malt flavor, touch of balancing hops, odorless, tasteless
Overall: where’s the beef? what happened to last year’s beer that I loved? what am I going to do with this keg I just tapped? I need some fizzy yellow beer drinkers ASAP

Date: July 10, 2005
Mode: draft
Source: cellar bar
Vintage: 2005
Score: i to ii
Appearance: getting better
Flavor: more hops but mostly bitterness instead of hop flavor

Date: July 24, 2005
Mode: draft
Source: cellar bar
Vintage: 2005
Aroma: nice hop aroma
Flavor: flavor has a light malt sweetness, a bit more balanced but still lots of lingering bitterness
Overall: fixed a gas leak and recarbonated the keg

Date: July 24, 2005
Mode: bottle
Vintage: 2005
Aroma: only a passing hint in the aroma of the ammerillo citrus that I love
Flavor: bitter flavor is tempered a lot