Day 154, June 3 / Rockfish Wheat Summer Weiss Beer

Day 154  /  June 3, 2011

Rockfish Wheat Summer Weiss Beer

Blue Mountain Brewery / Afton, Virginia

I have a good day every now and then…

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And today was one of them. Last evening I met up with some friends at the Herndon Festival, an area street festival with rides, vendors, food and a beer garden.  The choices at the beer garden were limited to Bud Light, Shocktop and Dominion Ale.  Actually, the Dominion tasted a little sour, so I switched over to Shocktop.  But no Summer Beers on tap, so I’d have to wait until I got home for that.  I did enjoy a good bowl of jambalaya from Jimmy’s Old Town Tavern’s stand.

The featured entertainer of the night was Paul Thorn, a blues / rock / Americana musician hailing from Tupelo, Mississippi.  He has a down home delivery of his between-song banter, his lyrics are funny and often touching, and his band is tight!  He has a song or two that could be a good candidate for a nice Summer Song (hint hint).

So when I got home, I hit the Summer beer stash and pulled out a Rockfish Wheat Summer Weiss Beer from Blue Mountain Brewing Company in Afton, VA.  Blue Mountain is on the Brew Ridge Trail, a group of (unrelated) small breweries in and around Charlottesville, VA.  I have actually driven by the brewery a couple times on the way to Wintergreen Resort, but never have had a chance to stop in.

Rockfish Wheat is actually a Kristalweizen style beer. What?  Kristalweizen is a filtered Hefeweizen (most Hefe’s are unfiltered).  So this poured an unexpected clear deep golden color into the glass.  It’s definitely not as chewy as a Hefeweizen, but it does have a similar taste, and had the banana overtones of a wheat beer.  Pretty good.

Hope you have a good day every now and then!