Brewery: Horny Hideaway (aka Horny Goat Brewing Company) in Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Contract Brewed By: Stevens Point Brewery in Stevens Point, Wisconsin
Contract Brewed By: Stevens Point Brewery in Stevens Point, Wisconsin
Purchased: 12oz CAN from a six-pack bought at Binny's in IL; 2014
Style/ABV: American Wheat Ale/Fruit Beer/Adjunct Nightmare, 5.6%
Reported IBUs: 17
I'm not a beer apologist, so there's no apology needed to justify my purchase of this beer. I like watermelon, even the fake stuff, and I like wheat. Horny Goat doesn't seem to be my thing though. Their website isn't offensive, subversive, or clever. They seem to be a frat brewery, which is okay I guess. And they're in Milwaukee. It also looks like their beer is contract brewed by the Stevens Point Brewery. I dunno. About Horny Goat Brewing:
Rating: Light Average (2.5/5.0 Untappd)
I'm feeling a Light Average on this. I thought for sure I was going to be talking shit about how this tastes like fake Jolly Ranchers and 14-year-old girl's perfume. This smells and tastes like dat genuine brewery smell™. There is some subtle melon/watermelon juice in here, and it plays off the fruitiness in a way that isn't bad. Overall though, I don't think I would buy this again. They have a Pineapple Hefeweizen that I might try...maybe.
Random Thought: Happy Father's Day to all the dads out there. Hopefully you got that morning BJ and then some quiet time to drink a beer, smoke a cigar, play some golf, or whatever it is that you fancy doing on Father's Day.
Reported IBUs: 17
I'm not a beer apologist, so there's no apology needed to justify my purchase of this beer. I like watermelon, even the fake stuff, and I like wheat. Horny Goat doesn't seem to be my thing though. Their website isn't offensive, subversive, or clever. They seem to be a frat brewery, which is okay I guess. And they're in Milwaukee. It also looks like their beer is contract brewed by the Stevens Point Brewery. I dunno. About Horny Goat Brewing:
Horny Goat Brewing and the Horny Hideaway are a brewery/restaurant founded in May of 2008. The beers are developed in their brew pub in Milwaukee, Wisconsin by their brew master, Dave Reese. They have a small-batch, 10 barrel brewing system, which seems pretty legit. They also appear to contract brew some of their beer through Stevens Point. For more information, check out their Facebook page or website.
The Watermelon Wheat is an abomination, no doubt. This summer brew is the result of adding "100% natural watermelon juice during fermentation so that all the sugar contributed is fermented off into alcohol, increasing the alcohol content while keeping the body light." DAE beer science? The backbone here is wheat malts, with "a touch of Vienna malt for complexity." This one also uses German hops. The can says: "Beer brewed with watermelon juice." My can also says: "Brewed by Horny Goat Brewing Company, La Crosee, WI & Stevens Point, WI" -- in case there was any mystery about the Stevens Point involvement.
This one pours into a relatively clear orange/gold body, kicking up a finger of white head. The head is foamy and doesn't look like it is fueled by wheat. There is a lot of carbonation in here, in the form of numerous streams of tiny bubbles rising upwards. This is clean and unsuspecting, even in bright lights. You might find this in Instagram photos for frat boy date rapes, and DMB concerts, but in the can not the glass.
The aroma here is big barley and grain. This smells like a brew house/brewery, with that distinct malted barley smell. It smells good, but I'm not getting much watermelon or wheat here. Along with the malted barley, I'm getting some wheat malts and some apple fruitiness on the aroma. It doesn't really smell like a wheat ale, let alone a watermelon wheat ale...but it smells pretty fucking amazing if you like the smell of a brewery (and I do).
Hmmm...this tastes very much how it smells. I'm not getting any watermelon, just a lot of malted grain, barley, and wheat. There's a twinge of fake watermelon in here, but yeah. I wonder if this is a screwed up can or if there is batch variation. That's no problem though, since I have several more cans. Let's grab one...so, the second can that I am drinking is also overtly grainy. I'm getting a lot of grain in here, a lot of wheat, and some hints of apple/grape/melon and watermelon candy on the back.
I'm on my third can here, which is a testament to my alcoholism, for sure. It's also a testament to this beer's drinkability. For some reason I felt compelled to turn on Dave Matthews and the Blues Traveler, and now I'm wearing an Aeropostle shirt. I don't even know how that happened. Does anyone else want to get rapey? I guess 5.6% is substantial enough to get you pretty buzzed, definitely more than your typical Pale Lager. This beer isn't very complex, but the light-bodied mouthfeel is pretty crushable and refreshing. Palate depth is alright. You know...I thought I was going to get a lot of fake watermelon Jolly Rancher vibes from this beer, but I'm mostly getting a lot of wheat and malt. There's some mild fruit juice, with apples and grapes and watermelon...but this is a clean malt exposition through and through. Up front: fruity apples, grapes, melon, and lots of sweet wheat malts; the mids roll into juicy malts, grain, wheat, hints of watermelon; the back end is where you get hints of watermelon Jolly Ranchers, but just hints...mostly grain...it's like a fruity brewery aroma in your glass or a homebrew.
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| Horny Goat Watermelon Wheat: why? |
This one pours into a relatively clear orange/gold body, kicking up a finger of white head. The head is foamy and doesn't look like it is fueled by wheat. There is a lot of carbonation in here, in the form of numerous streams of tiny bubbles rising upwards. This is clean and unsuspecting, even in bright lights. You might find this in Instagram photos for frat boy date rapes, and DMB concerts, but in the can not the glass.
The aroma here is big barley and grain. This smells like a brew house/brewery, with that distinct malted barley smell. It smells good, but I'm not getting much watermelon or wheat here. Along with the malted barley, I'm getting some wheat malts and some apple fruitiness on the aroma. It doesn't really smell like a wheat ale, let alone a watermelon wheat ale...but it smells pretty fucking amazing if you like the smell of a brewery (and I do).
Hmmm...this tastes very much how it smells. I'm not getting any watermelon, just a lot of malted grain, barley, and wheat. There's a twinge of fake watermelon in here, but yeah. I wonder if this is a screwed up can or if there is batch variation. That's no problem though, since I have several more cans. Let's grab one...so, the second can that I am drinking is also overtly grainy. I'm getting a lot of grain in here, a lot of wheat, and some hints of apple/grape/melon and watermelon candy on the back.
I'm on my third can here, which is a testament to my alcoholism, for sure. It's also a testament to this beer's drinkability. For some reason I felt compelled to turn on Dave Matthews and the Blues Traveler, and now I'm wearing an Aeropostle shirt. I don't even know how that happened. Does anyone else want to get rapey? I guess 5.6% is substantial enough to get you pretty buzzed, definitely more than your typical Pale Lager. This beer isn't very complex, but the light-bodied mouthfeel is pretty crushable and refreshing. Palate depth is alright. You know...I thought I was going to get a lot of fake watermelon Jolly Rancher vibes from this beer, but I'm mostly getting a lot of wheat and malt. There's some mild fruit juice, with apples and grapes and watermelon...but this is a clean malt exposition through and through. Up front: fruity apples, grapes, melon, and lots of sweet wheat malts; the mids roll into juicy malts, grain, wheat, hints of watermelon; the back end is where you get hints of watermelon Jolly Ranchers, but just hints...mostly grain...it's like a fruity brewery aroma in your glass or a homebrew.
Rating: Light Average (2.5/5.0 Untappd)
I'm feeling a Light Average on this. I thought for sure I was going to be talking shit about how this tastes like fake Jolly Ranchers and 14-year-old girl's perfume. This smells and tastes like dat genuine brewery smell™. There is some subtle melon/watermelon juice in here, and it plays off the fruitiness in a way that isn't bad. Overall though, I don't think I would buy this again. They have a Pineapple Hefeweizen that I might try...maybe.
Random Thought: Happy Father's Day to all the dads out there. Hopefully you got that morning BJ and then some quiet time to drink a beer, smoke a cigar, play some golf, or whatever it is that you fancy doing on Father's Day.
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