I hereby submit that Leinenkugel's Sunset Wheat is the best smelling beer ever created by mankind. I first had one of these beers about a month ago and was blown away. The Sunset Wheat has an exquisite bouquet which smells something like a pack of Starburst candy and a key lime pie. If both of those things were put in a blender and puréed and then that mixture were fermented and made into a beer, this is what it'd smell like. But it's not just the smell of the Sunset Wheat that is so awesome. This beer's taste isn't quite what you might expect if you get a snoot full of the Starburst aroma before you take a drink...The Sunset Wheat's flavor is closest to that of a good Belgian Witbier. The Belgians use a lot of coriander, orange and lemon peels to give their beers a citrus zing. The Sunset Wheat has the mellow coriander flavor of a witbier without the sharp zing, which I think is just perfect. Coriander isn't my favorite flavor, but when it's subtle and not overpowering I think it's nice and refreshing. And that sums up the Sunset Wheat pretty succinctly... it's got a sweet mellow taste without being fruity. The Sunset Wheat isn't a fruit beer like Pyramid's Apricot Weizen which I actually thought it was the first time I had one. I could've sworn there were oranges and raspberries brewed into it, but actually the beer is pretty spartan as far as ingredients go. It's a wheat beer but Leinenkugel also uses pale hops which give the beer a crisper taste. The phantom fruit flavors come from the yeast doing it's sciency stuff and somewhere in there you've got the coriander. I'm no brewer (obviously) so I won't try to go into anymore depth than that. What I'm trying to get at is that the Sunset Wheat is a pretty complex beer despite being made with essentially only three of four ingredients, and it's wicked good to boot.
