Ayinger Ur-Weisse

Brewed by Brauerei Aying
Style: Dunkelweizen
Aying, Germany

Serve in Stein, Weizen

this must be a breakfast beer. cloudy amber color. more banana flovor and aroma than i usually like. pour it over your cornflakes.

1/2 l bottle. Cloudy orange yellow, nice white head. Not as dark as one would want or expect. Malty aroma, clove and a touch of banana. Smooth malty flavor, clove and banana. Nice even carbonation. Well made brew, not quite a dunkelweizen, but a decent weizen none-the-less.

Color is a cloudy haze of brownish gold with a large loose head of puffed creamy foam that ever so slowly simmers to a light haze on top and has drippy lace in large stringy patches. The smell of this thing is very lively, wow, its all over the place, funky as hell, smokey banana and smoked salmon or bacon, dull lemon, musty horse blanket, soft rubber, and feet. Yep, its funky and pungent and I love it. I need this in a insense form so I can light one and let the whole place smell like this. People would wonder what the hell I'm I cookin' or smokin'. I'd be great. Taste is soft and mellow of banana and frothy malts, touch of lemon and clove, sweetness is light, citrus is flighty with a light but favorable carbonation with a mellow, nearly creamy medium body with a little touch of hop and dryness with clove hints in the finish. The yeast is showcased in this beer quite a bit, especailly in the smell, but with that aside its one fine easy drinkin' dunkel.

UPDATED: JAN 1, 2009 Crushed with Jakebra. Gotta re-rate this one, since the old bottle was definitely old and tasted like shit. Way too light to be a dunkelweizen, but aight. Wheaty all the way through. Much better than the last taste. Actually quite nice.

Appearance: bready orange with a tinge of amber here and there. Fluffy white head, slightly off-color, fades slowly into a thick blanket. Haze throughout her whole body thanks in all parts to her unfiltered darker wheat delights. Swirls with small bits of lace.
Nose: honey whole grains; touch of weight much like honey whole grain bagels and loaves. Almond nuttiness. Hint of greenness with banana peels before giving way to fresh moist banana bran muffins.
Palate: full, chewy, and bready with a medium weight. Sweetness of ripe bananas and honey underneath while her top is bright with green banana peels. Dry roasted whole almonds for a subtle pervasive nuttiness. Honey kisses whole grains while bran muffins enjoy a generous drizzle of that sweet sticky nectar of the bees for a continual chewy and moist mouthfeel and body. Almost non-existent presence of cloves; faint and flickering. Green bananas linger in the finish with more ripe bananas settling in the back of each swallow.
Final Thoughts: I’ve had many a dunkel Weisse of heavier darker designs, and yet there is something about the Ayinger Ur-Weisse which oozes class and timeless sophistication. Certainly not new to the German beer scene, Ayinger has a quintessential classic in their Ur-Weisse which I would gladly enjoy on a very regular basis.

Call me a generous rater or just think of me as a sucker, but i love an aroma that is as full and natural as this brew right here. It has a strong presence of banana and wheat while also giving a fresh bubblegum aroma. It’s almost like i just stuck my nose in one of those nickel gum ball machines. To bad the flavor isn’t as plump and sheer as the aroma had promised. The little minor descriptions of flavor start off with a mellow use of grain and semi bittering hop, while a ever present bubble gum and banana flavor is the most note worthy feature. Hints of clove, and other spice used as well as a squeeze of lemon too. Appearance is a dark auburn orange color with a thick murky haze while a thin coated head rest on top.

(500 ml bottle from <!-- A HREF=http://www.ratebeer.com/Place/maine/portland/ target=blank -->Downeast Beverage Co.<!-- /A -->) Cloudy light grayish amber with very tall soft off-white head that pulls away pretty quickly. Aroma of grapefruit, banana and wheat malt. Mouthfeel pretty soft, kind of tingly esp. in finish. Flavor is a citrusy tang blended with wheat maltiness, some banana as well. A little citrusy bite at end.

500ml brown bottle. Pours hazy orange/amber like the colour of an oktoberfest. Head was huge upon first pour - 3 or 4 fingers high at least. Quite foamy and fluffy, it eventually settled down to a respectable half inch in size and stayed there for msot of the glass. Little lacing. Aroma was on the sweet side. Primiarily clove and some lemon, with fruity banana and apple notes. Flavour was wheat malts, some caramel malt sweetness and banana. Yeasty dry end. Body was light, slightly thin. Crisp, quick carbonation.