Wheat and Agave Nectar? Really?
Written: Dec 08 '08
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Product Rating:
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Pros: It's got an okay taste
Cons: Not really that great, but not bad either.
The Bottom Line: This is a good beer, but it's taste isn't the type I crave.
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| Bryan_Carey's Full Review: Breckenridge Agave Wheat Ale |
If you're looking for a new beer to sample- something with an ingredient you may never have tasted before in a glass of beer- then one beer you might like is Breckenridge Agave Wheat, a light wheat beer with extra flavorings. Let's take a closer look at this wheat beer and what it has to offer:
Basic Facts About This Beer:
Breckenridge Agave Wheat beer is golden in color with a slight chill haze. There is almost no head of foam on this beer. It starts out small, and then shrinks to something even smaller, with nothing more than a few bubbles adorning the top of the beer. The nose of this Breckenridge Agave Wheat is one of citrus, apple, and wheat, and it seems a little sour.
Breckenridge Agave Wheat beer offers flavors like wheat malt, pale malt, a small amount of citrus, herbs, honey, and pepper. The spicy character I taste isn't from hops, it is from the contributions of the agave nectar and it gives the beer a certain salt and pepper character.
Breckenridge brews its Agave Wheat with carapils, pale, white wheat, terrified wheat, caramel, and Munich malts, along with cascade, Willamette, and Fuggles hops. The alcohol content of this beer is 4.2 percent by volume and it has a bitterness rating of 9 IBU.
Food Compatibility:
This wheat beer would match up best with salty foods and snacks, like potato chips, tortilla chips and salsa, popcorn, and more. It isn't really a main course type of brew, mainly because it doesn't have the body or richness to stand up to most heavy foods.
Final Thoughts:
Breckenridge Agave Wheat is an unusual beer product I am now sampling for the first time and it ranks as possibly the only beer I have ever tasted that was made with agave nectar. Agave is a desert plant with long, thin leaves and it is precisely this ingredient that adds the herbal/peppery flavors to the aroma and flavor.
Breckenridge Agave Wheat has a somewhat surprising taste and if I didn't already know it contained agave nectar, I would not have guessed that the juice of a desert plant was included in the ingredients. There is certainly a unique flavor here, but without knowing, I would have assumed the beer was made with a combination of hops that helped to contribute this fruit/spice combination. The taste is different, but not so strange that it makes you think a secret ingredient has been used. Only when you read the label and lookup a few facts on the agave plant do you realize why Breckenridge Agave Wheat tastes the way it does.
Breckenridge Agave Wheat is a lighter than average beer product. Ordinarily, wheat beer is a little lighter and also offers some refreshment character as a result. Breckenridge Agave Wheat is somewhat refreshing, but the salt and pepper qualities make it a little less thirst- quenching than other wheat brews. The taste, in many ways, makes me want a glass of water, probably due to the salty character.
This wheat beer is labeled as an unfiltered wheat beer, even though its body is practically clear and it contains no sediment. Only a slight haze makes you realize that the filtering wasn't completed. Still, the beer is see- though regardless, and this is likely because it is light in body. With such a level of lightness, even an unfiltered beer can still appear almost clear.
Overall, Breckenridge Agave Wheat is an acceptable wheat beer product that I find decent in flavor but not good enough to go out of my way to buy again. It has a flavor that reminds me of Mexico and Mexican food and while it is certainly better tasting and fuller in body than Corona, it is only average at best.
Recommended:
Yes
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