If you go into it expecting a standard wheat, you’ll be sorely disappointed. If you go into it expecting an easy to drink beer with some flavor, you’ll probably be good with it. Meaning, it has 100x more taste than any American lager swill.

Lisa

This beer should be easy to clone. Brew up an Amercian Wheat beer and add Fruity Peebles in as an adjunct. Should come out exactly the same.

While it was not as bad as I remember it being when I first had, I still didn’t like it alot. Which makes me feel bad because I don’t want my friend thinking he did something wrong. Beer brought in friendship is always appreciated.

That being said, I still think this tastes like a wheat beer mixed with, as one review put it, Fruity Peebles. Way way too sweet for my tastes. I honestly don’t understand how people think this beer is good.

Frankly I find it scary that people end up finding my beer reviews when doing a Google search for this beer. I really shouldn’t be ranked that high.

I’m still waiting for the chance to come along to try it again. I have this feeling that I may like it better the second time around and maybe I was too hasty the first time. This was definitely not one of my better reviews.

I went to a meeting last week where this was the beer that was proffered. Tough job, I know. Sitting outside on a summer afternoon in North Carolina, an ice cold ANYTHING will go down quickly. These did, and I have to admit being pleasantly surprised by the flavor. Enough to look for a clone recipe and thusly land here.

Remy’s opinion is his own and is certainly a unique one. Were he to spit out a mouthful of LHW off my deck, I’d simply tell him to go to the garage and look in the fridge for something he liked better. After all, you don’t marry a beer when you drink it, and if you don’t like one try another one.

Colin…I got nothing for you since I think some of your beer tastes are suspect to begin with

But then I remembered that my opinion can at times be less than accurate and thats all the beer review is, my opinion. I’m not above admitting that I can be wrong (except for my views about the Wikipedia, but that is another story). I haven’t had a chance to grab the beer again but I’ll give it another shot.

I agree, there should be a reference to the orange somewhere on the bottle. Who the hell goes to a beer website to see how you are supposed to drink the beer anyways.

Try one on tap - Applebees just started carrying it (where I live anyway), and on the tap handle (BTW, one of the coolest tap handles I’ve seen) it has a piece of orange on it.

FWIW, I didn’t think it was nearly as good out of the bottle as it was on tap, which I suppose could be said about any beer, and I think you’ll agree.

RateBeer.com 2.9/5
BeerAdvocate.com: 3.3/5 Low score a 1.6

So I’m evidently not the only one who didn’t like it.

So while I’m sure he didn’t mean it, I thank Jeff for the unintentional constructive criticism.

First off, I never drink Bud Light and I can assure you it would not get an 8.

I never check the websites or other beer review sties before I drink a beer because I don’t want someone else’s impressions clouding mine. It was billed as a wheat, which to me had always meant adding a wedge of lemon and I was clearly in the wrong on that one.

As for the flat versus carbonated controversy, I perhaps didn’t make myself clear. I used the word “flat” in the sense that to me the flavor didn’t go anywhere, it hit a certain level and never changed or got any better. So again, my fault for using “flat” in an misleading way.

As for the judges at the beer festivals, you seriously can not tell me that you have always agreed with the awards they have given out. I’ve had a number of beers where I whole heartedly agree with what they say, but this one was not one of them. But then again as I have admitted, putting lemon into this wheat beer like I’ve done or been suggested to do for every beer I’ve had that was a wheat was a mistake. If I have the chance to and based on your telling of it, I will definitely give this one another shot and see how it goes. I’m not above correcting my mistakes is someone points them out to me, which you have done. So no need to get all up in arms about it, since if I’m a crackhead you make you make yourself sound like a speed freak.

The first 3 sentences of your review pretty much summed up your beer reviewing skills for me. Yeah, the judges at the Great American Beer Festival and the World Beer Cup are a bunch of morons. I’ll bet you’d give a Bud Light 8 out of 10 bottlecaps.

First of all, if you check out the Leinenkugel website, they recommend that you drink Sunset Wheat with a slice of orange, not lemon. For you, Big Remy, the orange is the one that’s orange and the lemon is the yellow one. Use the orange one. Putting a lemon in a SW would be like putting the orange in a Corona instead.

Second of all, you say “It was flat and acidic tasting for the most part, with some rare spots of decent taste and the mouthfeel was way too carbonated”. That statement makes absolutely no sense to me at all. When refering to beer, the descriptions “flat” and “way too carbonated” shouldn’t be in the same review let alone the same sentence. Maybe your tongue is too scorched from sucking too hard on your crack pipe that your sense of taste is ruined.

Stepping down off my soapbox, I’d like to say for the rest of the real world that might also happen across this review - in my opinion way too high on the Google list for my liking - Leinenkugel Sunset Wheat really isn’t as bad as this dude says it is. In fact, it’s pretty darn good. I’m not a big wheat beer fan, but this beer is mellow enough on the wheat and has just the right blend of orange, coriander, and hops to make this a great tasting and thirst quenching beer. Not overpowering on the alcohol either so you can drink a couple of these down pretty quick to quench your thirst and not get smashed.

Have a nice day.