Three Floyds Gumball Head

Three Floyds, Munster, Indiana

Gumball Head

American Wheat Beer

5.5 % ABV

12 oz. bottle into pint glass

You might ask why I am drinking a wheat beer in the winter. Who does that?

When my roommate Ashley went to Indiana recently to visit her family, I put in a special request for anything from Three Floyds. Perry has raved of this quirky Indiana brewery and I was intrigued.  When she returned with a six pack of a WHEAT BEER, my heart sunk. A wheat beer in winter?

Had this been rotting on the shelves since last July? Would the taste only make me hate the winter months even more?

While this beer might ideally be sipped at a summer barbecue, it works equally well in a cold, dark, Michigan house in February, which is probably why Three Floyds made the wise decision to brew it year-round. This is not a typical wheat beer. No cloudy, murky, banana yeastiness. It’s clear, crisp, and well-hopped. This is not to say it’s one of these übertrendy, überhopped, überpricy American wheat beers like Brooklyn-Schneider Hofpen-Weisse. It’s less boastful of its hop-iness. The hop profile is a superbly balanced mix of bitterness and citrus peel that is unexpected in a wheat beer and überdelicious.

Thanks, Ashley! I’m sorry I ever doubted Gumball Head.

~ by nininja on March 25, 2010.