Color of Head #F6DBC5
Color of Body #EBB54D

OK, I'm done with my first round of finals and am ready for a beer. Normally, it's pretty hard to go wrong with a Sam Adams beer, but I'm not so sure about this one. Something deep in my subconscious is telling me that I've had this beer before and hated it, but I hope my subconscious is wrong. There's only one way to find out...

This smells like Cherry Juicy Juice, straight up. Very sweet and malty smelling, and hardly smells like beer at all. It tastes very crisp, and is highly carbonated. A bit too carbonated for my tastes. The smell really had me hoping, for some reason, that this would be a super sweet beer. But it's not. In fact, the beer smells much more like cherries than it tastes. The taste of cherries only really comes out in the aftertaste. My roommate just pointed out that it tastes a little like cough syrup, which it does. But even so, it's really all I can taste. The rest of the beer just tastes like carbonated water. It's really very thin.

My subconscious was right. Well, almost. I didn't hate Cherry Wheat, but I didn't like it at all either. The beer is not very complex, and the one flavor that really comes through doesn't come through enough which is unfortunate. And I would have liked a little more sweetness, too. Normally, you can't go wrong with a Sam Adams beer, but this is really not one of their best. 65/100.

P.S. Sorry about the lack of an actual picture of the beer. I still don't have a camera and don't want to infringe on copyrights, but i should get one in the next few weeks.