Fruity Pebbles?

[h4mmy86]

So I've heard people compare the flavor of Leinenkugel's sunset wheat to fruity pebbles plenty of times. Well, last night I picked up on a very similar flavor character in Red Hook Copper Hook.

What the hell is that?? Is it a hop character or some kind of fruit flavoring??

 

[TheMerkle]

I'm curious about this as well. I would suspect that it would be something along the lines of a mildly warm fermentation with certain yeast strains... but I'm only a novice brewer.

 

[H-ost]

Strange, I used to drink copper hook often and never associated any flavors with fruitiness. It does sound like an off flavor (aka a mistake in the brewing process).

 

[cheezydemon3]

Sunset wheat has straight up orange flavoring. No yeast could do that.

 

[h4mmy86]

Sunset wheat has straight up orange flavoring. No yeast could do that.

I get more of a blue berry sort of flavor than orange

 

[TheMerkle]

I mean it's all there. The whole fruit punch round of flavors. Cheezy is right, though, the beer is artificially flavored.

 

[julioardz]

It's blueberry flavoring. Durango Brewery's blueberry wheat has the same Fruity Pebbles taste.

 

[pjj2ba]

I used Pacific Gem hops in a wheat beer and it ended up smelling a bit like fruity pebbles - no fruit in the beer