Wild Ohio Brewing Mango Tea Beer

Gluten Free Mango Tea Beer

Today’s review is for a beer alternative brewed by Wild Ohio Brewing Co. in Columbus. I’ve reviewed many of their other flavors before (links at the end of this review), but today you get to hear about the Mango Tea Beer.

Just like the other tea beers brewed by Wild Ohio Brewing Co., this is a beverage brewed with fermentable sugars and fruit juice—no grain! (It’s a bit hard to call it “beer”, but that’s how it’s marketed by the brewery.) This means that these tea beers are naturally gluten free. This particular one has a pretty high ABV too, clocking in at 7.8%!

If you’ve read the other tea beer reviews, let me start by saying…this one is a bit different than the others, in a couple ways. Before we get to that though, let’s take a look at the pour below.

The Taste Test

Mango Tea Beer

This Mango flavored tea beer poured the most transparent shade of pale cream I’ve ever seen. If it weren’t for the brief head and lingering carbonation, I would say this tea beer pours exactly like a glass of Pinot Gris. It has the same color and couldn’t be more clear. You could scan a fingerprint through it. Its clarity allows for significant carbonation entertainment too.

The aroma is saturated with sweet ripe mango, but you can also pick up a little alcohol on the nose. The taste took me by surprise a bit. It was sweeter than I anticipated, and possibly one of the sweetest Wild Ohio Tea Beer flavors I’ve tasted yet.

This is a bit challenging for me, as I prefer the drier side of pretty much all beverages. This one’s for my counterparts though! For me, the intense sweetness of this flavor comes off as very syrupy. While I’ve liked most of their others, I would have to say this Mango one is my least favorite.

Another thing I’m noticing is that the alcohol is more detectable in the Mango Tea Beer than it is in the other flavors. To be fair though, it does have a higher ABV than many of the others. (7.8% ABV) I’m curious if any of you agree with me on this. Particularly those of you who have tried the full range of Wild Ohio’s flavors.

Since I am tasting this Mango Tea Beer last, I think it’s safe to say that my favorites were the blood orange tangerine and the black cherry bourbon barrel flavors. I’ve also reviewed the blueberry and peach flavored tea beers.

After tasting 5-ish flavors from this brewery, I’m wondering why they don’t utilize hops more to create a more beer-like flavor profile in their tea beers. Perhaps they have other flavors that do! But I would like some hops in all of them. :) …said the hop head. Who’s with me? 💁‍♀️

P.S. Like what I do for the gluten free beer community? Consider buying me a beer for my efforts! ;)

Wild Ohio Brewing Mango Tea Beer