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This is a pleasant, unassuming beer. It's gentle character tempts me to call it a crossover beer, appropriate for beer drinkers just discovering the complexity of craft beer. It would also be nice with most foods although dishes with strong flavors will quickly overwhelm it.

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Pros

• Refreshing
• Simple
• Enjoyable

Cons

• Tends toward sweetness. Could be cloying after a couple.

Description

• American style wheat
• Very easy to drink
• Nice crossover beer

Guide Review - Tasting Notes and Review of Goose Island's 312 Urban Wheat Ale

312 pours with a cloudy, effervescent body. The average, white head collapses a little quickly for a wheat beer. The nose is light but full of grainy sweetness with maybe a hint of lemon. This American wheat has a simple, sweet flavor and a generally wet body, as opposed to the thick, silky feel of some other wheat beers. A gentle, lemony tanginess led me to believe that this is a 'pre-lemoned' beer but neither the packaging nor Goose Island's website list lemon as an ingredient.

An interesting note about the name: 312 is a reference to the telephone area code for downtown Chicago. This "urban wheat" was designed to celebrate Goose Island's hometown.

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