Tommyknocker Jack Whacker Wheat Ale

Brewed by Tommyknocker Brewery
Style: Wheat Ale
Idaho Springs, Colorado USA

Pours light hazy gold, with bits floating around. Citrus, hops, and grain nose. The taste is a watery wheat with an oily lemon finish. Leaves an aftertaste in your mouth for a bit.

Light gold, with a medium white head that fades to a thin film. Fruity wheat aroma. Medium body and a very fruity flavor that carries through like a fruit punch. Clean finish that, fortunately, leaves little of the fruit left in the mouth.

Hazed, pale straw gold appearance, copious carbonation, smallish head, especially for the style, drizzles down in no time. Funky nose, but not fresh...stale clove and squashed banana...with a side order of plastic....not great. The aroma is usually what I like best in a wheat ale, so this holds little promise. Taste: ew...not good. Plastic feeling continues in the flavor, as if something is seriously amiss...none of the special, sparkling associations one enjoys in a wheat are anywhere around. Dull, drab, listless, with a flaccid flavor, there’s nothing to like here...in fact, it’s terrible...yuk...and I’ve got four more of these to get through...yikes...poor me... Nothing more to say. Big disappointment.

Bottle from Total Wine. Pours a hazy golden color with a bit of head to it. Not too much in the aroma category, but the taste is okay at best. Meh.

Slightly hazy gold/orange pour with mild head. Not much aroma. A little citrusy a little hops. No yeastiness,banana or clove. Not bad not great. Also not harsh like some American wheats can be.

Pale somewhat clear pale yellow pour. Small white head fades fast. Aroma is mostly lemon with just a note of hops. Flavor is true to the aroma, with a somewhat malty finish. The beer is highly carbonated. There are better, but with the large lemony flavor, this would be better on a hot summer night.

Bottle sampled with stegosaurus. Pours a hazy golden color with a limited white head. Aroma of lemons, and citrus. Flavor was similar to aroma with a light body and a crisp refreshing finish.

Poured to a clear golden orange, not hazy like I expected, with virutally no head or lacing. Aroma was very slight, though I picked out a slight citrusy fruit smell. Unfortunately, no spice or dough smell. Flavor was pleasant, again with hints of fruit. Mouthfeel was fairly flat, and finish just so-so. Not a bad drinking beer, just not much of a wheat beer.