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Shock Top

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Known for American Wheat Ale

Shock Top is a wheat beer brand that launched in 2006 with its Belgian White, a spiced Belgian-style wheat ale brewed with real citrus peels. The current range includes fruit and seasonal wheat beers and the imperial High Voltage. Since 2023 the brand has been part of Tilray, which bought it from Anheuser-Busch.

6Beers
2Styles
5.8%Avg ABV
2006Founded
Consistency· share of beers above catalogue avg
0%
catalogue avg 15%

Beers by Shock Top

6 beers
Candy Corn Wheat
Candy Corn Wheat
American Wheat Ale · 5%
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High Voltage
High Voltage
American Wheat Ale · 9.6%
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Brewery DNA

The recurring character behind the beers

Shock Top brew across 2 style families.

Signature · 6 beers
Wheat Beer 4Fruit Beer 2

Across these 6 beers, 4 notes keep showing up:

wheatevery beer
6 of 6 beers
lightevery beer
6 of 6 beers
refreshingevery beer
6 of 6 beers
fruity
4 of 6 beers

Four notes carry across the range. That's a tight house style — most breweries in the catalogue share just one. 3 of them come through every single beer.

Compared with 97 other breweries brewing American Wheat Ale, Fruit Wheat Ale and Witbier:

typical for American Wheat Ale, Fruit Wheat Ale and WitbierShock Top
in no beersin every beer
smooth
in none of their beers · typical American Wheat Ale, Fruit Wheat Ale and Witbier brewery: 2 in 5
Absent — the field expects it.
crisp
in 2 of 6 · typical American Wheat Ale, Fruit Wheat Ale and Witbier brewery: 3 in 5
Notably less crisp than typical.
How we measure this

Two thresholds are at work here:

  • The signature list shows notes that recur in at least 6% of this brewery's beers. A low bar — enough to flag a pattern, not high enough to call it an exclusive trait.
  • The peer comparison below shows only notes where this brewery's coverage differs from similar breweries by at least 20 percentage points. A higher bar — enough to call a real difference, not a nudge.

A note can appear on the signature list without appearing in the peer comparison: it recurs here, but similar breweries do the same thing.

Brewery performance
How their beers place in the hopIQ ranking.
Top 36%
average beer performance
0
beers in the Top 100
0 / 6
beers above the median
#1983
best ranked beer
Twisted Pretzel Wheat

Their beers place in the Top 36% of the catalogue on average, across 6 ranked beers. One clear standout well ahead of the rest.

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About Shock Top

Shock Top is a wheat beer brand that launched in 2006 with its Belgian White, a spiced Belgian-style wheat ale brewed with real citrus peels. The current range includes fruit and seasonal wheat beers and the imperial High Voltage. Since 2023 the brand has been part of Tilray, which bought it from Anheuser-Busch.

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