The first beer I enjoyed was a Blue Moon. I was told that it was a hefeweizen style beer, so I set out on a mission to drink more hefeweizen beers. Then I grew brave and ventured into ales, stouts, porters; you know... REAL beer. Since then, I've found enjoying the wheaty beers much harder than it used to be. Perhaps it is my own beer-prejudice, like how people who became successful fear returning to their hometown where they are known as the nerd, or fat kid, or both. Or it might be because it is difficult to craft a great hefeweizen. If that's so, then the Canoe brewpub could use more practice.
What I need in a beer is flavor, and despite the faint promise of honey and citrus aromas, the Summer Honey Wheat has almost none of it. The honey tasting burn of the mild carbonation is a good start, but it quickly dissolves into something else: think of when you're swimming in a public pool and you accidentally take a mouthful of the stuff and then spit it out in disgust. That lingering flavor of community socialism which sticks to the pallet? Yeah. That's this beer.
After you gulp the stuff down, it leaves behind a bitter hoppiness that is very like a milder IPA. Which if the beer tasted, I don't know, better, it would make it more dynamic than most wheat brews. But as it stands, I would recommend any beer besides this one. Yeah, the flavor starts great and ends nicely, but you can also put a piece of shit between two slices of bacon.
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