Arena Weiss

Brewed by Arena Beer House
Style: German Hefeweizen
Kiev, Ukraine

Serve in Weizen

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The head is ok, the body orange, a bit brown and cloudy. It smells yeasty, Co2. The taste is watery, a bit yeasty, smooth but boring. 11/6/7/7/-/7

Draught at the brewpub. Hazy yellow/orange coloured, medium sized white head, yeasty banana nose. The taste is also quite yeasty and fruity with notes of overripe banana. Also some strange acidity near the end (later it turned out that all of their beers have that strange acidity). Why, I really don’t know.

Amber and cloudy. The aroma is mostly banana, with a fair bit of sugar. Mostly yeasty on the palate with light phenols. Dull weizen.

draft at brewpub. Murky burnt orange with stable head. Aroma of sweet banana bread. Some tartness is hidden well. Sweet and thin, throughout, with insubstantial but detectable toasty malts. Bland and boring plonky kit beer.

Draft @ Arena Beer House. Unfiltered. Hazy darker yellow coloured beer. Clearly unfiltered. Some light carbonation and a medium white head. Rather light aroma. Short hints of wheat and sweet malts. No added herbs? Rather pure german style weissbeer. Medium to full palate. Finish is sweet again. Hints of wheat and fruity malts; Rather short ending though.

On tap at the Arena Beer House in Kiev, November 2008. (old notes) Pours a hazy yellow with a small white head. Aroma of citrus, banana and wheat. Quite spicy taste of banana and citrus. A drinkable beer, although a little on the thin side, aftertaste was short.

Small white head; hazy light orange body. Bananaish milky aroma with notes of flour. Taste is banana and citrus with a dry, citric aftertaste. Sharpish, spicy edge to it. A decent weizen, if not top class. (0.1l on tap.)