3.9 AROMA 9/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 16/20
Not a whole lot of banana aroma; it’s more citrusy, but the banana really comes through in the flavor. Nice bready finish.
3.7 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 5/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 5/5 OVERALL 13/20
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.
2.9 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 11/20
(Bottle) Pours cloudy brown with tan head. Sweet and malty. A pretty good beer, but a little less flavor then I expected compared to others of the type. The bottle was near the "Best by" date. Will try again, and possibly rerate.
3.5 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 15/20
Very big foamy head, copper coloration. Apple and white wine in the aroma and taste. Best Hefe I have had.
3.2 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
Bottle. Pour is a dingy and light brown color with a massive, fluffy head. Aromas are heavy on the cloves and spicey yeast notes with some banana mixed in and a little sawdust. Mouthfeel is kind of grainy/dusty which compliments the flavors of cloves and such. Still, it is a very light dunkel. Just a touch of a sourness to it helps to keep things interesting, but I’m not sold on this one.
3.3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
bottle. pours a hazy brown with a small off white head. Aroma is banana, bready, and lightly spicy. Taste is the same with a touch of roasted malt flavors. pretty good.
3.2 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
Beautifully fresh blend of lemony cut grass, and banana aroma make this a very respectable wheat.
3.6 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 15/20
Pours a decidedly lighter color than the standard dunkel weisse; the color is a deep hazy orange and the head is of course enormous, tight, white, and reminiscent to the top of a meringue pie.
The aroma is yeasty from the get go, with a lot of raw malt, and general "brewery tour" aromas. Some spiciness and banana show up in the aroma but it’s mostly just a lot of grain and yeast, but not in a negative way/
The flavor is more complex, certainly there is some defined maltiness to the beer but it’s got a well rounded fruitiness with about as much ripe red apple as banana, a fairly restrained spiciness (to style), and a nice bitter zing throughout. The beer is sweet but not overbearing.
The beer is full bodied yet lively with a prickly carbonation on the front of the tongue and a nice long finish.
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