Three Floyds Gumballhead

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

My first Three Floyds beer, woohoo! Pours a nice golden color, slightly more amber than your usual Ameri-wheat (though clearer too). Head is pretty full at first, but dies down to a thin bubbly film. Like others have mentioned, this beer smells oddly hoppy for a wheat beer. The hops are definitely more lemon/limey than on some pale ales though. Taste yields a bit of malty wheat goodness, but the hops edge out the flavor. The beer doesn’t feel too thick but, then again, it’s not really supposed to. The aftertaste is very nice though. The hops merely provide flavor and dryness, without making your throat feel overly bitter. Nice and smooth. This is a very pleasing beer; mild yet purposeful.

Bomber: Pours a beautiful clear orange color with a small head. Smell of hops and citrus. Wow, what a taste. Taste of citrus, hops and grapefruit in this beer. it is bitter and sweet. I actually do taste lemon in the aftertaste. Mouthfeel is kinda thin thought, but not enough to give it a bad rating.

Bottle, picked it up at the brewpub. Pours clear shiny new penny/gold color, with a half-inch bubbly off white head. Aroma is strong citrusy floral hops, and grapefruit. Flavor is immediate grapefruit, followed by a nice hop kick, and a very mildly sweet finish.

Thanks to iowaherkeye for this one. Light amber, fairly large head, decent lacing. Aroma is very hoppy... mostly citrusy grapefruity hops. It doesn’t look or smell like any American Wheat I’ve had.. but ok? Some wheatyness in the finish... very slight. More like an APA with some tartness in the end. Yeah, it’s tasty... but dunno about the style here.

Poured from a bomber amber in color with an off-white head. Aroma was citrus hops. Flavor was citrus hops with a lemon finish. A great offering from 3F’s

Pours a dark gold. Nice floral hops aroma. Nice sweet flavor, a little bite to it. Palate is OK, not great. Very good beer overall. TY OG. Re-rate - Not as good as I remember, seemed like it had too much bitterness this time around. Still very good.

Thanks to moejuck for scoring this one for me. How this can be an American Wheat is beyond me. I think someone left the "wheat" part out because the hops in this is so freakin’ overpowering there’s nothing there but...well, hops. Great if you’re a hophead, but not so if you are looking for a great wheat beer. Aroma is piney, and sweet. Where’s the "bubblegum" in gumball head? Appearance was golden yellow in color. Mouthfeel was slightly sticky, medium bodied. Flavors were just hops. No wheat character, not much malt character, just hops. I guess it’d be an okay pale ale but to call this an American Wheat is just misleading.

Mostly clear pour from this 22 oz bottle. Not much head on there either. Aromas were very sweet citrus. Peachy too. No Gumball as I had expected. The flavor was very similar. I detected what must have been the yeast that seemed familiar to me from other 3F brews. Some Gumball on the finish, but still just mostly hops. Good, but not what I expected at all.