As part of a Twitter Tasting hosted by the Fresh & Easy Market chain, I had the opportunity to sample a beer new to me, Shore Break Hefeweizen.
This is a “phantom” craft as it depicts bucolic surf scenes and is sold here in California but is brewed by Rheinlander in Wisconsin.
It pours an orange golden color with not much aroma to speak of at all. First sip comes and goes without any banana or clove so you can safely assume this is not a real hefeweizen. But even worse, this beer is watery. Not much there, there. Grain taste is practically non-existent.
Not only is this not a “craft” beer it isn’t a German hefe and it is flat out a really poor example of a wheat beer. I do not recommend this beer and I would avoid other Shore Break and Underworld brands at Fresh and Easy and focus on the tried and true you can get there.