Fuzztail

Fuzztail is the American style hefeweizen of Sunriver Brewing Co. in Sunriver, Oregon, a hazy wheat beer built on Idaho grown malt and Pacific Northwest hops.

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Specs

Brewery Description

Our gold medal-winning American style hefeweizen is the perfect partner for after work or after play. Idaho-grown pale and wheat malts create a gentle sweetness with bready notes. A blend of hand-selected PNW hops gives this hazy, refreshing wheat beer a crisp finish with pleasant notes of grapefruit, lemon, and evergreen.

Source: Sunriver Brewing: Fuzztail

Tasting Notes

Idaho-grown pale and wheat malts create a gentle sweetness with bready notes. A blend of hand-selected PNW hops gives this hazy, refreshing wheat beer a crisp finish with pleasant notes of grapefruit, lemon, and evergreen.

Source: sunriverbrewingcompany.com

Ingredients

The brewery's page names three hops (Chinook, Cascade and Lemon Drop) and Idaho grown pale and wheat malts; it lists no yeast strain and no adjuncts (Sunriver Brewing: Fuzztail).

Hop Profile

Brewing Details

Style Context

As category context only, the Brewers Association guideline for American-Style Wheat Beer calls for low to medium bitterness, 10 to 35 IBU and 3.5 to 5.6 percent ABV. Fuzztail's published 5% ABV sits inside that range; its newly verified bitterness also falls within the category range.

Awards History

Generated from the loaded results for this brewery and beer name, not researched separately; years not loaded are not covered.

Brewery Context

Sunriver Brewing Co. is in Sunriver, OR.

Links checked 2026-10-14: Website, Instagram, Untappd.

Related

• Brewery: Sunriver Brewing Co.
• Hop varieties: Cascade, Chinook, Lemondrop
• Hop farms that grow these varieties: grown by Goschie Farms, grown by B&D Farms, grown by Coleman Agriculture

Each farm listed as growing a variety grows that variety according to the hop farm data; the brewery has not said it bought hops from that farm.

Links

• The Waterhole Tavern: beer menu
• Untappd (hand-read citation): Sunriver Fuzztail
• Beer page on brewery site
• Sunriver Brewing Co.
• Brewers Association: beer style guidelines

Gaps

• Not Found: Color (SRM), Original gravity, Final gravity, Hop form, Hop use, Hop lot or farm, Yeast, Adjuncts, Water. Checked untappd.com, sunriverbrewingcompany.com, thewaterholetavern.com, web searches recorded in the research notes, bendbulletin.com, web search 2026-10-14: Fuzztail yeast, IBU, SRM, sunriverbrewingcompany.com, sunriverbrewingcompany.com, sunriverbrewingcompany.com, sunriverbrewingcompany.com, bendbulletin.com, runoregonblog.com, beertasting.com, app.warehouserunner.com.

Research Notes

• ABV, hops, malts and style verified on the brewery's beer page.
• IBU and yeast are not published there; an older brewery page at /?p=12 was read and carries no Fuzztail entry.
• The page does not say whether Fuzztail is year round or seasonal.
• No 2026 medal announcement from the brewery was found.
• Researched 2026-10-13.
• Field pass 2026-10-13: The matching Untappd Fuzztail listing publishes 20 IBU, also corroborated by The Waterhole Tavern's menu. The fruit enhanced Seriously, Patrick? listing is a separate beer and was excluded.
• Catalog.beer 2026-10-14: Catalog.beer: Fuzztail lists 5% ABV, 20 IBU, style "Light American Wheat Ale or Lager with Yeast" (entry last modified 2020-05-02). Where it differs from the brewery's own published value, the brewery's value stands.
• Deep dive pass 2026-10-14: the tasting notes are the sensory lines of the brewery's own description; The Bulletin (July 21, 2019) describes the beer as unfiltered and hazy at 5% ABV and 20 IBU. No yeast strain, gravity or color figure was found; the brewery calls its hops hand selected without naming a lot or farm.
• Brewery site scrape 2026-10-14: found nothing new; 5 pages tried (robots.txt obeyed, one request every few seconds per host).
• Second deep dive pass 2026-10-14 (press quoting the brewery, distributor/retail listing search): found nothing new; 5 pages tried. No new values. A 2018 blog confirms 5% ABV and 20 IBU (already filled); no yeast, OG, FG, SRM, water or hop form/lot stated. One beer database lists Green Bullet in place of Chinook, but it is not the brewery and was not recorded.