Shiner 102 Double Wheat
Here at the little brewery in Shiner, we’re happy to serve up our latest anniversary brew, Shiner 102. With a special recipe that sits between a bright wheat beer and wheat wine ale, this smooth, filtered, double wheat ale pours a pale straw color with hints of sweetness. And the aromatic Czech Saaz and Washington Golding Hops and the crisp character of malted wheat are sure to refresh your senses. Prosit!
2.8
154 reviews
Shiner, United States
Community reviews
This bottled brew from a bottle shop poured a medium sized head of foamy finely sized white colored bubbles that were very long lasting and left behind a typically carbonated transparent light yellow orange colored body. The almost non-existant aroma was malty and wheat. The mouth feel was weakly tingly at the start mediumly tingly at the finish with a lingering malty aftertaste. The smooth flavor contained notes of wheat hops and malt. A decent one but not one that I would consider drinking again.
Pours hazy gold. Mediocre at best and way too sweet and too much carbination. try it once and move on.
The aroma is corn, wheat, malts, grassy, and ok. The look is deep golden in color, clear, and has a fizzy white head. The taste is grass, malts, and wheat. Just eh.
From notes: Poured fizzy, clear straw color, with a 1-finger white head. Sweet lemon or orange citrus aroma, mixed with some yeast funk. Light, but a bit thin. Flavors were very light. Sweet note, maybe caramel, with a slight orangey note and some biscuity yeast in the finish.
Location: 12 oz bottle from Buy Rite, 3/9/12
Aroma: The nose has wheat, bread, lemon, spice, caramel, and a bit of corn
Appearance: It pours a clear golden-orange color with a small white lead and light lace
Flavor: The taste is a little sweet, lots of wheat and some light malts and fruit flavors too
Palate: It is fairly light, and a touch watery, it has a rather soft carbonation, and a sticky/sugary finish
Overall Impression:
I thought this beer was kind of dull. It isn’t terrible, but its flawed and unexciting. It also feels kind of unrefined. There’s something here that doesn’t work for me.
12oz bottle- Nose is wheat, yeast, grass, caramel..Taste is wheat, ginger, caramel, spice..Palate is light and thin..
The Shiner had a yeasty smell and a light sweet taste, not bitter or and slightly sour. Golden and clear in color. Average carbonation and abrupt finish. Not fantastic, pretty ordinary.
Light aroma and almost no head. Nice palate, very frothy and refreshing. Light taste, almost no qualities make this beer stand out. The appearance was great, a golden hue, but lacking otherwise.
Purchased a 6 pack in Orlando Florida. Very disappointed after reading the label and tasting this brew. Color was like apple juice, no head, lots of carbonation like ginger ale, and taste all malt. Hardly any wheat more ginger... ginger ale that is than wheat.. Leaves mouth dry. Never waste your money on a 6 pack. Not worth it.
Best part of this beer was the aroma, after that I was a little disspaointed. Mediocre taste and head and appearence. Slight hop overtones were not a compliment but a distraction from the malty taste. Not the worst beer by any means, but wouldnt buy again.
Pours a hazy golden color with a medium sized foamy white head. Notes of clover, alcohol, wheat germ, and honey. Kind of gross.
Bottle: Pale golden pour with lots of bubbles and a small white head. Grassey, crisp, and malty come to mind after a few sniffs. Moderately hopped for a wheat ale; grassey, floral, bready, and wheat flavors fit in like they belong here. Ok.
12 oz. bottle. This beer pours clear and straw yellow, with a loose, medium-sized off-white head that settled quickly, leaving almost no lacing whatsoever. The aroma profile is sweet grain with a hint of honey. This beer is a malt bomb from start to finish with little flavor complexity, and nominal wheat character. This offering could use some hop balance in the finish.
Deep golden color with a decent off-white head. Aroma is of wheat bread, light caramel and hops. Taste is of wheat, light citrus, and caramel.
12oz bottle from Pick’s poured into a shaker. Pours a clear dark gold with about a finger of white head. Aroma is mostly grainy caramel malt with some light grapefruit hops. Taste is light sweet and very light bitter. Similar to the aroma. It’s pretty good, but not a lot going on here. Medium bodied with a somewhat thin texture. Lively carbonation and an average finish. Overall, not bad. Nothing really special but a great intro to craft. And at 6 bucks, it’s a decently cheap intro to craft. I’d take this over any light beer any day.
12oz bottle-pours a foamy offwhite head with yellow/gold color. Aroma is sweet wheat, some fruit. Taste is sweet wheat/light malt, secondary fruit/spice hops.
12 ounce bottle. Pours clear golden with a large frothy offwhite head. Decent head retention. Aroma of tart wheat, banana, bread, spice. The taste is bread, citrus, banana, clove, grassy hops. Medium bodied. Decent.
Shiner 102 Double Wheat has a very thin, white head and a clear, golden appearance, with some streaming bubbles and no lacing. The aroma is of Roman Meal bread and maybe molasses and honey. Taste is of Roman Meal brand wheat bread, honey, molasses, syrupy sweetness, and alcohol. Mouthfeel is medium, and Shiner 102 Double Wheat finishes slick and metallic. Overall, this is a hard beer to rate and figure out, but it’s still worth a try. RJT
12 ounce bottle. Served in a pint glass, the beer pours a dark gold color with about a half inch off-white head. The head retention is pretty good, and there’s a decent amount of lacing left behind on the glass. Aroma is mostly grainy, the brew smells like sweet malt and wheat, along with some caramel and light grassy hops. The taste is just like the aroma. It’s a mostly sweet grainy taste, along with some bittering/grassy hops in the finish. Mouthfeel/body is light/medium, it’s crisp and easy enough to drink. Overall it’s an OK brew, and worth a try.
Bottle from a trade with Boutip. Perfectly clear yellow pour with small white head. Aroma is very wheaty but not in the european coriander clove way, just very sweet grain aroma. Not much hoppiness, a bit in the taste but overall quite sweet. Even the slight alcohol finish seems to bring more sweetness to the table. Palate is OK, med body with light carbonation. Didn’t like this very much at all.
Easy drinking wheat ale. Nice aroma and flavors. Straw in color with a thin head. Aroma was thick in wheat and grapefruit like. This was very tasty and finishes quite dry.
I really enjoy wheat beer so this was right up my ally. Nice wheat character and not overbearing with the abv as some doubles can be (this one clocks in at just over 6%) Light enough to be a session brew but still maintains some nice flavor. Definitely worth a try.
bottle - Pours clear gold and bubbly with a small white head. The aroma is grainy and lightly fruity. It tastes sweet, light, and bland. It’s not bad, really, but I give it a resounding "meh".
Meh. Shiner seems to want to split hairs. So many of their beers tast alike. Double wheat? Double who cares. With aggressive pouring I got a small to medium sized off white head that soon settled to a very thin cover and a thicker ring around the edge and no lace. Color is a clear, rich gold amber with one bubble trail. Aroma is some malt, wet grain, yeast, bread dough, bit of fruit. Taste is similar to nose and about as interesting. Body is ok and so is carbonations. Finish is like flavor. Going towards wheat wine perhaps in alcohol, but sorely lacking in flavor. Kind of like the label though, whatever "102" means. I will drink the rest of it at least. I think.
I didn’t think it was too bad of a wheat ale but thats all it was. Very plain, watery and boring.
Bottle. A decent beer. Goes down clean, if somewhat forgettably. I appreciate the gesture of a different style Shiner with each anniversary; this appreciation probably leads me to inflate the score a bit.
From a bottle poured a straw color with a small amount of head. Light malty flavor with a quick finish.
Bottle. Aroma has some wheat and some metallic edge. Pours gold with thin white head. Taste has a wheat undertone to it, but I don’t exactly know what the double wheat is here. Goes nice with tacos.
Just a slightly above average double wheat. I thought the beer was OK for a standard wheat beer, but I expected a little more out of a double wheat. This was just OK for me. Not bad, nothing great either.
As i get older, I like wheat beers less and less. I’m not sure what it is but I thought this was a pretty putrid beer. A large part of it is probably due to the fact that it comes from Texas, a natural shithole. This was a definite drain pour.