KALAMAZOO, MI -- A Deadspin writer has called Bell's Oberon "America's most overrated beer."

Will Gordon of Deadspin said in a post Wednesday good wheat beers aren't hard to find, and says it's strange that Midwesterners "go bonkers for Oberon Ale, Bell's thoroughly ordinary seasonal wheat."

In his piece, Gordon praises Bell's Two Hearted Ale, saying the beer "rises above the pack." But Oberon, Gordon writes, is "just some beer."

"I fully respect the way nostalgia and ritual can enhance a drinking experience, but I still think it's bonkers for people to get so damn worked up over the annual release of Oberon. Many places in Michigan and surrounding states go so far as to declare an Oberon Day, which this year fell on March 23. A holiday for a seasonal wheat beer is a hell of a thing. It's a shame the people who invent such things wasted the idea on Oberon," Gordon writes.

Oberon Ale is released in most of Bell's distribution area every year in late March, though it is available year-round in Florida, Puerto Rico, Arizona, Los Angeles n and parts of Alabama. The wheat ale has a 5.8 percent alcohol-by-volume. The beer has developed a mass following and its spring release has become synonymous with warmer temperatures, the start of spring and the beginning of the Major League Baseball season.

Read the entire piece at Deadspin.

What do you think? Is Oberon overrated?

Emily Monacelli covers higher education and craft beer for the Kalamazoo Gazette. Contact her at emonacel@mlive.com or follow her on Twitter.