Shock Top Belgian White from Anheuser-Busch. The label describes it as “Brewed with Orange, Lemon, and Lime peels and Corriander.” ABV is 5.2%
Poured into a pint glass, showing a very light orange color. The head finished sizable, almost 3/4″ which dropped faster than a porn star’s panties on set. seriously, i picked up the bottle to snap a pic of the label, and by the time I set the bottle down – the head was gone. elapsed time… 7 seconds tops. No head remains and the lacing is minimal.
The smell is somewhat faint but not especially unpleasant. I’m missing the spices but they *might* be there… hard to tell. The smell did remain throughout the glass and did manage to add to the overall experience. Improved the flavor enough to allow me to finish the beer.
The taste is not offensive. Smooth and citrusy but unremarkable. Not exactly knocking you over with great taste here but certainly not bad. The mouth feel is fine… like a bad macro brew’s sophisticated older cousin from West Virginia. Sure… its better than its relatives, but its still a hillbilly. Aftertaste is not good. Drying my mouth in an unwelcome way.
Whew. Dodged a bullet here. This past Saturday, I was in a distributorship looking for a nice summer wheat beer for my wife. We were initially struck be the the playful branding. the orange and the mohawk were fun. after looking up the beer on beeradvocate.com with my Treo… we passed. The ancestry was enough to give me pause on purchasing an entire case. Good thing. I’ll pass on this one in the future. The final grade…
C
