Major Tom's Pomegranate Wheat - Fort Collins Brewing

secondtooth

Indiana

3.7/5  rDev +15.6%
look: 3 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5

An unusual ale with a distinctive tartness (real pom juice concentrate
is an ingredient). I was prepared to laugh this one off as another
fruity sweet beer, and to an extent that's true, but in reality, it's
not at all bad. It's nice and light, with a bit of a zing (and wins
some points for originality), but ultimately Major Tom's isn't a
standout beer, as there's really no depth to it.

Serving type: bottle

01-09-2008 04:42:58 | More by secondtooth

bshiban

Pennsylvania

2.75/5  rDev -14.1%

05-05-2013 00:45:41 | More by bshiban

JMS1512

New Jersey

3.25/5  rDev +1.6%

04-18-2013 23:55:49 | More by JMS1512

BuddyE

Louisiana

2.25/5  rDev -29.7%

04-15-2013 04:25:35 | More by BuddyE

Kunstman

Wisconsin

3/5  rDev -6.3%

04-13-2013 02:13:24 | More by Kunstman

estlinska

Arkansas

1.85/5  rDev -42.2%
look: 2 | smell: 1.75 | taste: 2 | feel: 1.5 | overall: 1.75

Served in a shaker at The Saucer on 4/7/13. Pours an almost flat golden-yellow favoring the flesh of a mango. There was a little haze to it, but it seemed more like something dirty floating in it than really a wit or hefe type unfiltered haze. There was no head to this beer. I watched the pour and it was done by one of the bartenders that knows how to pour a beer. He didn't not pour off the head. He poured it at about 75 degrees and it just formed nothing. The smell was just flat as well. There was tons of bubbles in the glass, so I didn't think it was a carbonation thing. There was maybe a whisper of fruit syrup and some maybe banana on top of some cheap white bread. The taste was just a bunch of nothing overall. I feared a flat beer given the head and the nose situation, but it was really quite fizzy; too fizzy really. There was something that maybe wanted to be pomegranate, but only came off as flavoring syrup. There was no wheat flavor at all and there was this harsh hops flavor to it as well; no flavoring hops, just a flat bitterness. Overall, this beer was just off. Sytlistically it just doesn't work right for either a wit or a true wheat beer. It really was like drinking a budweiser with some fruit flavor to it. I may give it another shot just to be sure, but I just didn't like it.

Serving type: on-tap

04-07-2013 18:09:11 | More by estlinska

ralphw56

Nevada

3/5  rDev -6.3%

04-05-2013 19:24:48 | More by ralphw56

WDJersey

New Jersey

3.5/5  rDev +9.4%

03-23-2013 03:11:40 | More by WDJersey

grahamboudreaux

Tennessee

3.5/5  rDev +9.4%

03-18-2013 23:59:06 | More by grahamboudreaux

Herky21

Iowa

2.5/5  rDev -21.9%

03-13-2013 14:42:16 | More by Herky21

sixerofelixir

Ohio

2.75/5  rDev -14.1%

02-28-2013 01:22:29 | More by sixerofelixir

rydev24

Pennsylvania

3.25/5  rDev +1.6%

02-02-2013 23:12:44 | More by rydev24

Kerrie

Michigan

3.25/5  rDev +1.6%

01-31-2013 01:32:48 | More by Kerrie

Mitchster

Michigan

2.68/5  rDev -16.3%
look: 3 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 2.5 | feel: 2.5 | overall: 2.5

Pours out to a clear dark golden, forming a rocky bone-white head with beautiful retention and lacing. Looks like whipped cream and bubbly pancakes. The aroma is quite nice...it has a typical American Wheat Ale nose of cracked wheat, crackers, pale malt grain husk, but overlaid by a dusty sour fruitiness akin to raspberries. Since I had a pomegranate today with lunch, I can pick up on it, but I probably wouldn't be able to place it otherwise. Carbonation is brisk. The carbonation stings the tongue and explodes upon the mouth. Medium-light body. The taste is very interesting...fruity, but sour and dusty. There is a bitterness which is akin to the bitter pulp of the pomegranate and is intermingled with a floral hop bitterness which is quite strong for the style. The aftertaste is pungently bitter and really hampers it's drinkability. The sourness is pervasive and more chemical in nature than anything I would expect.

An interesting, odd, and utterly undrinkable beer. The bitterness is crazy for the style and the sour, metallic nature of this brew real kills it's appeal. I would pass on this one again.
L=4.5, A=4, T=2, MF=3. O=1

Review 1/24/13-Well, for some reason, I got another and thought I would try it. Pours out to a lightly hazy peach. forming a small white head with poor retention and absent lacing. Carbonation is moderate ~2.5 carbs. The aroma is of grain husk and kiwi fruit. Mouthfeel is moderately tart with a light body. The taste is just grain husk, kiwi fruit, a weird moderate metallic bitterness and more sourness. Not a lactobacillus infected sourness, but a citric sourness. The bitterness certainly seems toned down compared to my prior review, but it's still pretty brisk considering the style and body.

Serving type: bottle

01-25-2013 05:43:39 | More by Mitchster

4Socialanxiety

Tennessee

3/5  rDev -6.3%

01-16-2013 02:16:06 | More by 4Socialanxiety

Larrydoherty

Massachusetts

3.5/5  rDev +9.4%

01-16-2013 01:40:02 | More by Larrydoherty

TheMarkE

California

3.25/5  rDev +1.6%

01-10-2013 22:04:33 | More by TheMarkE

iemailjack

Florida

3/5  rDev -6.3%

01-08-2013 03:10:28 | More by iemailjack

Tozac

Colorado

3/5  rDev -6.3%

01-05-2013 09:53:36 | More by Tozac

cheribom

California

3.75/5  rDev +17.2%

01-02-2013 03:47:56 | More by cheribom

kb2250

New Jersey

3.5/5  rDev +9.4%

12-27-2012 19:51:18 | More by kb2250

laurastradford

New Jersey

2.75/5  rDev -14.1%

12-16-2012 19:44:13 | More by laurastradford

Stwinchy

Colorado

3/5  rDev -6.3%

12-11-2012 01:04:12 | More by Stwinchy

andrewkgray91

Colorado

3.25/5  rDev +1.6%

11-20-2012 19:24:49 | More by andrewkgray91

EigenBeer

Florida

3.5/5  rDev +9.4%

11-13-2012 01:26:05 | More by EigenBeer