Fort Collins Major Tom American Wheat:
“Ground control to Major Tom, take your protein pills and put your helmet on“.  How’s that for an intro?  I’d like to thank David Bowie for giving us a character that spans not only several songs, but possibly artists  with Elton John and “Rocket Man”.  So we have beer’s named after Rolling Stone songs so why not a David Bowie song? Well Fort Collins Brewery stepped up to the plate and not only gave us a brew, but redeemed a fruit’s use in beer brewing process.  Major Tom’s Pomegranate wheat is not technically a summer brew but if this combo isn’t I don’t know what is right anymore. The beer pours a light golden color with a nice wheat haze, a head that is about a finger in thickness, and nose of subtle pomegranate with a mild sweetness undertone.  While all that is fine and dandy we are here for the taste and that is the surprising part. With being let down by a previous pomegranate beer I wasn’t expecting much out of this beer as far as taste goes, but this beer not only redeemed the extraterrestrial fruits use in beer, it impressed me.  The taste is very uniform which is apparently common with most beers that have heavy fruit components in them.  The taste is a like drinking a cream of pomegranate malt-o-meal with an alcohol backer and it leaves a very pleasant and subtle aftertaste.  So a great beer from the land where breweries are born (Colorado) and a great summer beer to boot.  The sad part of this is that it isn’t available here in Texas (boo! hiss!) but hopefully, with time it will be- hey, Dogfish has made it down here so that’s reasons enough to believe in miracles.