Wheat Ale

Anchor Mango Wheat, a can potential

Anchor Mango Wheat looks to join a specialty series of cans from the San Francisco, California brewery.

The can design and layout (and beer, of course) started last year with Anchor’s Meyer Lemon Lager. (Note the similar artwork.) New Mango Wheat Continue Reading →

Posted in Left Hand Brewing

Left Hand Wicked JuJu is the latest ginger wheat offering

Left Hand Wicked JuJu is now available. Think of the brewery’s Good JuJu with a dark side.

The JuJu line is best known for Good JuJu, a wheat beer brewed with fresh ginger. As for Left Hand Wicked JuJu, imagine an imperial edition of the tried and true favorite, brewed with darker malt, and candi sugar.

Good JuJu’s Voodoo goes darque. Consecrated in observance of the light and darkness in all creatures, fresh juiced ginger and dark roasted malt are brewed together to pour black with slight ginger heat giving way to to chocolate malt sweetness. Invoke the good spirits and give reverence to the wicked with each divine drop.

The gingery series looks like this: Good JuJu led to Great JuJu (an imperial edition of the original). Now, Left Hand Wicked JuJu a roastier edition is a 22 ounce bottle release.

Style: Wheat Beer (w/ Dark Candi Syrup, Ginger)
Availability: 22oz Bottles
Release: March, 2016

7.3% ABV

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in New Beers, White Birch Brewing

White Birch Watermelon Wheat

White Birch Watermelon Wheat

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in New Releases, Speakeasy Ales & Lagers

Speakeasy Discreet Wheat Ale kicks off “Perfect Crime” Series

Speakeasy Discreet Wheat Ale is the San Francisco, California based brewery’s first release of 2016.

The American wheat beer release coincides with SF Beer well (January 22-31). The invention of brewer Brandon Nash and girlfriend Pilar Odom, Speakeasy Discreet Wheat Ale topped the brewery’s 2nd Annual Employee Brew-off.

 “I designed the recipe to be simple and chose high quality ingredients, letting different flavors speak for themselves. I also wanted to include a unique ingredient. My girlfriend Pilar, who is very knowledgeable about herbs, suggested adding lemongrass to give the brew an extra kick of citrus and grassy flavors.”

Speakeasy Discreet Wheat is a draft only offering.

Style: Wheat Ale
Hops: Calypso, Amarillo, Mosaic

Availability: Draft only
Launch: Late January, 2016

5.7% ABV, 42 IBUs

If you go: 

Discreet Wheat Release Party, January 24th, at Speakeasy’s Tap Room in conjunction with SF Beer Week.

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Anchor Brewing, Headlines

Anchor Mango Wheat, a can potential

Anchor Mango Wheat looks to join a specialty series of cans from the San Francisco, California brewery.

The can design and layout (and beer, of course) started last year with Anchor’s Meyer Lemon Lager. (Note the similar artwork.) New Mango Wheat features mangos as the spotlight fruit, in a wheat beer base.

Anchor Mango Wheat will be a 12 ounce can offering. The brewery has not yet announced this offering.

Style: Wheat Beer (w/ Mangos)
Availability: 12oz Cans
Release: TBA

4.5% ABV

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Breckenridge Brewing, New Beers

Breckenridge Tequila Barrel Aged Ophelia

Breckenridge Tequila Barrel Aged Ophelia

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Atwater Brewery, New Beers

Atwater Whango Wheat Ale

Atwater Whango Wheat Ale

by Reid Ramsay
Posted in Coming Soon, Green Flash Brewing, Headlines

Green Flash Passion Fruit Kicker, a future bottle potential

Green Flash Passion Fruit Kicker, a new wheat ale brewed, is on the horizon from the San Diego, California based brewery.

The soft wheat base for Green Flash Passion Fruit Kicker sets the stage for the passionfruit tea, and juice that will headline this beer’s flavor. (and ultimately, ratings.)

We’ve kicked it up a notch by adding a tropical twist to this refreshing ale. Get amped on Passion Fruit Kicker – a jaw-dropping, mouth-watering, smooth brew with sweet, tart, fruity flavor. We layer passion fruit tea and passion fruit juice with wheat malt and 2-row malted barley to bring you this exhilarating crowd pleaser. Your palate will do a 360 for more of this luscious wheat ale.

Green Flash Passion Fruit Kicker will be a 12 ounce bottle and draft offering. The brewery has not yet announced this offering.

Style: Wheat Ale (w/ Passionfruit Tea, Passionfruit Juice)
Availability: 12oz Bottles, Draft.
Release: TBA

5.5% ABV

by Reid Ramsay