The Bar Towel

Picked up some of this as well as their abbey and a pale ale on Saturday. The bottle date is July 4 so as fresh as possible. The wheat ale misses the mark completely. Not traditional cloudy appearance. No banana or clove notes at all. Thin mouthfeel no head retention. I love supporting these cottage breweries but this one is a miss. Will review the abbey and pale ale later this week I suspect.

According to BeerAdvocate, sounds like a bang-on wheat ale? Probably filtered...and cloves/banana are uncommon for the style, unlike German / Belgian wheat beers.
http://www.beeradvocate.com/beer/style/93/

But...whatever the case....I totally forgot about these guys, so thanks for the post...as I may be heading up that way soon and will have to stop by!

Yes a German Weizen is where you might or should get clove, banana, vanilla, bubblegum and / or hints of lemon. American Wheat Ales tend to be pretty fecking boring in my opinion. Even North American Hefeweizens can have little else going on but a sweet, glue-like wheat flavor. You can't count in a great beer here like you can with, for example Franziskaner.

I love Side Launch when it's great but honestly it's different all the time, why is that I wonder...

The pale ale from them is a traditional English style pale...good for the style but nothing I'd consider world beating. For a cottage brewery just starting up its decent but average