Brewery: Southern Tier Brewing
Location: Lakewood, NY
Beer Name: 422
Style: Pale Wheat Ale
ABV: 5.8%
IBU: NA
The beer was poured from a 12oz bottle into a pint glass. Pours a slightly hazy golden yellow with a thin white head, with splotchy lacing. The aroma is wheat bread with a faint glimpse of lemon citrus and grassy hops. The flavor has notes of wheat with a slightly sweet backing malt that is punctuated with orange and lemon citrus peel that ends with a bit of earthy grass from the bitter hops. This is a lighter body beer with an average level of carbonation.
Overall an average take on an American style wheat beer. Nothing really jumps out at you, but that isn’t necessarily a bad thing either. It is an easy drinking clean, refreshing beer but not very assertive. Seems as though it is trying to blur the lines between an American pilsner with some wheat attributes. Would be fairly easy to drink a few of these on a hot summer day. Could have been a little more wheaty for my taste. Named 422 after Earth Day and is packaged with over 80% post-consumer recycled cardboard. Oddly you would have thought this beer would have been more organic in its attempt with such a lofty name.
Score
Appearance
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3/5
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Aroma
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3/5
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Flavor
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5/10
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Overall
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5/10
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Total
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16/30
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