312 Urban Wheat Ale: 4.0 – Don’t worry this is the final Goose Island, and this time it’s finally not an IPA. The lemon here is light, but welcome. Overall it’s basically a nothing beer. You taste a basic wheaty ale for like a second and then nothing. Now we bought this ‘5 beer’ sampler pack because it came with a shandy, but color us surprised that our favorite is an IPA (they did have 3 tries at it though)
Price Average: $11 for 6 Pack 12oz
Website: https://www.gooseisland.com
Apripeche: 7.5 – It’s a tart ale with apricot and peach which you can guess by the name. As always Ommegang delivers as it balances that sweet peach and tart apricot. It’s virtue is by not being a true sour, and really keeping that wheat ale like flavor with the additional fruit and tartness. Overall it’s just nice to drink.
Price Average: $10 for 4-pack cans
Website: https://www.ommegang.com/
Horse Tongue: 7.0 – That tart bit of sour and the wheat combine in a way that makes this feel sort of like a red ale. It’s nice and crisp, and that sour is bringing a bit of fruit, but the barrel aging brings it all down to stop it from being overpowering. It’s actually really good.
Price Average: $14 for 22oz
Website: https://avbc.com/
Summer Jam: 7.5 – There is a bit of that wheat and overall pale ale flavor here, but let’s be real. This is a punch in the face of strawberries. Other strawberry beers often taste like strawberries, but in the way that you can tell, oh that’s how the berry has changed the taste of the beer. This? This taste like fucken strawberries, and we love it.
Price Average: $9 draft
Website: http://barreledsouls.com/
Siren Yu Lu: 4.0 – that is so over hopped it nearly came back, there is no reason for it. That might as well be an ipa
Price Average: $12
Website: http://www.sirencraftbrew.com/
Winter Cheers: 7.5 – It’s not exactly clear why this is a winter-y ale or at least a celebration, though there are some things to celebrate about. This should be an all year beer for victory as it’s one of their stronger offerings. It’s a delicious wheat ale with just the right amount of hops.
Price Average: $8 for 6-Pack
Website: http://www.victorybeer.com/
Gose Gone Wild: 7.0 – It has a nice sour taste, and the aftertaste is really good leaving a nice mix of tart, sweet, and wheat. An overall very successful sour wheat ale.
Price Average: $10
Website: http://www.stillwater-artisanal.com/ (epilipsy warning)
Aventinus Wheat Doppelbock: 7.0 – There’s some banana but the overall is more wheat instead of something nutty like other dobbelbocks can be. It’s also super easy to drink.
Price Average: $5
Website: http://schneiderusa.com/
Gentlemen’s Wit: 4.5 – its okay but there’s an off taste that is sort of nutty to it. It’s fresh from a tap, but it tastes kind of skunked. (Note we tried this again to confirm, but the result is the same)
Price Average: $6
Website: http://www.camdentownbrewery.com/
River Guide American Wheat Ale: 6.5 – Once again Berkshire delivers a solidly good ale for a damn good price in big bottle. The nuttiness and the wheat here are great, and if I’m honest Berkshire is one of those companies that I want to just keep making more and more beers.
Price Average: Name $5