Tommyknocker Jack Whacker Wheat Ale

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

Blah, this wasn’t so good. It didn’t become a hoppy mess of an American wheat, but was very lemon-grass flavored. Hard to taste or see past the lemongrass. Sloppy. Body wasn’t really thick, but it was cloying thick... or, rather, annoying thick feeling, sticky.

This beer pours gold with a slight chill haze that fades as it warms up. The aroma is apparently devoid of all hop aroma. Slight maltiness, vague fruitiness (almost like the dried rasberry aroma from the raspberry black tea my wife drinks.) Not bad, but infinitely forgettable.

12oz Bottle
A deep hazy amber color with a thn head. Had a deep malty flavor with the wheat coming through. This was a refreshing and had lots of citrus notes in the aroma and flavor. This was a very nice beer to drink.

Color is hazy gold. Aroma is sweet and reminds me of . Flavor in kind of orangy and has hints of corriander which reminds me of a Belgian White The finish tastes like lemon grass, but isn’t overpowering. No bitterness at all. A bit thin on the palate. Over all this beer isn’t too bad and is really kind of refreshing. 12 oz bottle (best before 9/25/2006), $1.10 (out of a mixed 12-pack) from The Party Source.

12 oz bottle at Stockholm Beer Festival 2008, 4.7 %. Slightly hazy golden color. Grassy and grainy aroma with watermelon, sea air and glue, the arma is slightly off. Sweetish, grainy, honeyish, bready and somewhat fruity flavor with orange marmelade, mango and apricot. No hops. Glue like off flavor.

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.

Lemon-colored and clear-bodied with no wheaty haze. Abundant carbonation. Aroma of stale beer and pine cleaner. Smells like beer-stained linoleum. Sweet, tart, and artificially fruity tasting. Syrupy mouthfeel. The cartoonish packaging serves as a warning that I failed to heed. Another drain-pour from this brewery.

Light yellow color with minimal head. alcohol on the nose. My second lemon palmolive beer this week. Leaves my mouth dry.