Ayinger Ur-Weisse

Brewed by Brauerei Aying
Style: Dunkelweizen
Aying, Germany

Serve in Stein, Weizen

Nice fruity nose, lots of peach and a touch of banana, some fresh herbal hops and just a touch of honey malts. Taste is light to moderately sweet, lightly bitter; light banana, pear and peach, touch of apple, herbal-minty hops. Very solid.

Pours a murky brownish with orange hue. Nice fluffy head which dies down. Has a roasty, sweet malt scent with yeast. Flavor is crisp suggestions of citrus and yeast as well as a pleasant roastiness. The roasted grains excentuate the flavor of the weizen beer, yet it is still incredibly drinkable. Tingles the palate.

Bottle. Pours cloudy brownish copper with big off-white head. The aroma is full of soft fruity esters, peach, tangerine, banana; there is also some muffin, faint alcohol, and some spice. The flavor is bran muffins with some lemon and peach and general acidic bite. Then some hints of clove, faint nuts, and some allspice. The finish has an acidic kick with yeast and allspice and a soft, confectionery aftertaste. Pretty good stuff.

(500 ml bottle: $2.59 at Hollingshead Deli in Orange, CA) Second attempt with this beer, so hopefully it’s fresher and more enjoyable. This beer pours a translucent, glowing, golden-amber color, but the fizzy, off-white head dissipates rapidly, leaving just a small ring as proof of its existence. Quite a lot of sweet banana, spice and wheat in the nose. Wheat malts are the most prevalent in the flavor, with banana, apples and cloves showing less presence. I thought a previous bottle of this was off because of the light apple, but maybe that’s just the way it is. Fairly sweet in general, and the wheat shows a touch of breadiness, and as the temperature of beer increases, so too does the breadiness, but enough to cause me any distress. Medium-full bodied and well-carbonated, but tiring out the palate as the beer warms up. Definitely one of the better imported Dunkelweizens I’ve had the opportunity to try, but Ayinger usually is near the top of the heap with most everything I try of theirs.

aroma of apples, banana and spices. murky brownish orange color. fine bubbled foam makes up the medium sized head. banana, spices, and bready yeast on palate. medium bodied. creamy finish.

500ml bottle at my departmental picnic - thanks to whoever brought this along. I’d not had this brew in a while and it went down very nicely on a dank evening. Cloudy orange pour with the nice, lively carbonation one wants from a solid German hefe. Banana and mild yeast in the aroma, some chewy malts in the taste along with a touch of hops to complement the spicy finish. Fine stuff.

Caramel red orange with a smooth off white foam. Big banana, bubblegum aroma, hidden cloves, sweet caramels, butterscotch. Taste is lots of caramel, bananas, fruit, light finishing grassy, spicy note.

Pour is a cloudy orange brown with a nice one finger head that has fair retention. The aroma of fruit jumps from the glass. It is a nice mix of apricot, peach, and prune. The flavor is also fruit dominated with yeast, malt. Cloves appear late. Smooth, tasty, and aromatic. Delightful!