Mouthfeel: Medium-bodied and sweet through and through a yeasty texture without the flavor of the yeast. Mostly cider/juice character rather than beer it’s super sweet and juicy though a little muddled. In this case, the Wit really works well with the cider. Taste: The sweet apple juice character is prevalent on the tongue too, and it’s actually pretty tasty-essentially it’s a snakebite, though lager is the usual base rather than Wit. Really, really fruity-it’s apples all the way down. Smell: Apple juice that’s super fragrant-very sweet with a fresh-pressed quality to it, like a sweet (unfermented) cider. And I have to say, this is an interesting beer, not bad at all.Īppearance: Hazy, straw-colored gold, with a fizzy head that fell quickly. I did of course receive the six-pack of Honecrisp Apple Wheat from A-B, and additionally observed that as well as being 5.2% abv, it’s “brewed with spices and finished with Belgian candi syrup” (on top of the cider+beer fusion). This unfiltered brew is the perfect beer to welcome the warming Spring days.

Shock Top Honeycrisp Apple Wheat is a unique, hand crafted brewed hybrid of Belgian wheat beer and sweet cider, with natural Honeycrisp flavor added to produce an innovative new brew that is crisp, refreshing and flavorful. It’s a blend of the base Shock Top Wit-style beer with sweet cider to produce something akin to a snakebite.

The big breweries are getting in on the act as well, and the latest offering from Anheuser-Busch’s Shock Top line reflects this: Shock Top Honeycrisp Apple Wheat. I’ve been saying for a little while now that cider is on the rise, one of the quickly-growing trends that fits naturally (if a little strangely) into the craft brew movement-particularly with the advent of dry-hopped ciders and (I just recently read about) a barrel-aged one.

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