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I do not recall exactly what the last nitro beer I had was. They are so infrequent that I don't even bother having a label for them, but maybe I should retroactively fix that. I know that I had the Left Hand Brewing milk stout that was a nitro beer, and I recall that lending a certain kind of smoothness to the already smooth sweet stout. The lactose sugars really seemed to latch on to the nitrogen to give a rather pleasing sensation. Was it an improvement over the carbonation? Well, you'll have to read both reviews to find that out.
I would argue that the color of the beer is pretty straightforward for wheat beer. I expected the head to be significantly different, and the bottle specifically says that you should pour very hard into the glass. I didn't read that until I was halfway through pouring it, though. As a result, there isn't much of a head, but they are a tiny little bubbles that indicate that this is probably nitrogen. The aroma is pretty much a straightforward wheat beer with grains over coriander and assorted hops.
First sip is, honestly, not great. I think the carbonation that these beers normally have lends itself well to kind of cutting the grains in a wheat beer pretty well. As a result, the nitrogen makes this seem almost flat. It's not that the flavor isn't particularly good, but even a Guinness would struggle to be recognized as a good beverage when the nitrogen is off. I'm reminded of when a bar I used to go to would run low on nitrogen and crank up the carbonation to make up for the missing gas. The result was an abomination that immediately made me and my drinking companion cease our celebrating and choose a different location for imbibing adult beverages.
Tip-in is no carbonation or nitrogen buzz whatsoever with sweet coriander that has been spritzed with orange and has some oats and grains backing it. The middle is kind of a dull lump with yeast trying to do something with the coriander and the grains, but nothing really seems to coalesce. The finish is the flat aspects of a traditional wheat beer, but they just don't have any life to them.
Bottom Line: Not everything is improved with nitrogen.
1.75/5
