Ayinger Ur-Weisse

Brewed by Brauerei Aying
Style: Dunkelweizen
Aying, Germany

Serve in Stein, Weizen

Bottle, bought @ Ølkonsortiet, Aalborg.
Pours a thick hazy dark orange with a small fizzy head that soon disappears. Aroma has banana, apples, dough malts and a citric touch. Wonderful oily mouthfeel. Flavour is sweet, lots of wheat, fruity banana esters, light chocolate and a nice well-balanced spiciness. A very good dunkelweizen - perhaps it should have been a little more dunkel?

UPDATED: MAY 16, 2008 3-1-08 standard weizen glass. Amber, slight haze, chill haze, huge off white head, nice lacing. Huge banana, doughy yeast, toasted cereal grain and clove. Flavor just doesn’t do it for me though. Decent banana character, otherwise just a jumbled mess of fruit and phenolic esters. Some toasted grain near the finish. Lively carbonation and spritzy mouthfeel. Maybe I was expecting too much.

A standard pour produces an easily four-finger thick, pale tan colored head. The beer is a full amber color and shows a deeply hazy, pinkish, light amber color when held up to the light. The aroma is quite fruity with notes of ripe plums, apples and juicy-fruit gum all quite noticeable. Spice notes of clove and banana traditionally found in the style are also evident. Dusty grain aromatics, some tart wheat character and a freshly crushed malt character in the finish add the malt component of this beer’s nose. As the beer warms a bit the fresh, vibrant fruitiness begins to pick up a slightly green, under-ripe edge.

Lightly sweet tasting up front and through the middle, though the flavor does dry out some towards the finish. This is a light, easy drinking beer for the most part, but it has a touch of creamy heft (despite an zesty carbonation) and fullness to it. The carbonation seems to help keep this beer seeming light and quaffable. Lightly tart notes characteristic of wheat accents flavors of sour / sweet plums, light apple flavors and a touch of tamarind. A bit of dusty grain towards the end as well as some light grassy grain and at times a stale cracker flavor in the finish. The more traditional Hefe-flavors of clove and banana are here, but seem to play a supporting role; that is not to say this does not taste quite traditional as even the other flavors that are here are perfectly in line with the style.

Refreshingly tart, yet with a fullness that makes it seem perfectly appropriate for a warm, Tucson winter’s afternoon. A tasty beer that is perhaps a touch flawed, but still quite good.

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Pours alightly cloudy llighter honey color with a nice active white head. Banana, clove, and bubblegum dominate the nose with a bit of peppery spice as well. Uniquely ripe banana flavor with less sweetness than expected, which is very nice. Reminds me of banana pudding. Vert creamy mouthfeel with some pepper on the finish. There are also some roasty caramel notes, maybe apple and grape as well, very subdued though. I am really enjoying the toned down sweetness.

UPDATED: MAY 6, 2008 Malty yeast aroma, sweet banana notes, great white head. Dark golden color,nice lacing. Well balanced sharp carbonation. Flavor similar to aroma. Flavor of sweet malt, wheat, fruit, banana, caramel finish. Such an enjoyable wheat.

Thank you Masn/G2B.dk. It’s a dark golden beer with a huge, nice and creamy head. The aroma has notes of clove, wheat and fruit. The flavour has sweetness and notes of banana, wheat, clove, fruit and caramel. The body is full and harmonic, it’s truly nice!!! 2559

Hazy amber of color with a nice off-white head. An aroma of banana, wheat, yeast, cloves, fruits. A flavor of wheat, fruits, apples, banana, caramel notes.

Dark amber ale with a one inch off-white head. Huge fruit-wheat aroma. Flavor is banana, clove, and caramel. Finish is sweet. Good stuff.