Ayinger Ur-Weisse

Brewed by Brauerei Aying
Style: Dunkelweizen
Aying, Germany

Serve in Stein, Weizen

Any first impressions?
-An initially lofty head dissipates on the hazy amber-brown fire.
-Plump banana esters, red apple peel, mild cloves, and plentiful straightforward yeast leap from the glass.
-Fizzy, expansive carbonation throws the banana sweetness and earthy yeast onto the tastebuds quite directly.

What if you dig deeper?
-Citrusy fruitiness surrounds it all, making it rather quenching.
-Peaches have fallen on the soil.
-Dry, bready yeast takes care of the finish without its many esters.
-The flavor profile is a little too yeast-driven for my tastes, nearly burying the malt, but this is nonetheless a very good dunkelweizen.

Bottle; no date to be read.

Bottle. Pours with a large, creamy barely off-white head with a hazed brown body. Good lace and retention. Aroma is full of banana esters, clove phenols with the yeast, a bit of chocolate, caramel and dark fruits. Taste is watery with chocolate, caramel and clove. Lively to fizzy mouthfeel.

Draught at the bräuhaus in München. Muddy orange colour with a big off-white head. Caramel, banana aroma and a light sweet sparkeling caramel, banana taste. Medium body with a sweet sparkeling finish.
Earlier Rating: 5/9/2005 Total Score: 2.9
Bottle. Hazy dark yellow colour with a big white head. Light banana yeasty aroma and a sweet citrus banana taste. Medium body and a sweet dry finish.

Pours brown with almost no head. Smells of clove, figs, mace, nutmeg. Tastes of allspice, bananas, apple, and peppery. Masterful beer with a thick nearly perfect mouthfeel and a sweet finish.

500ml bottle.
Turbid orange, large thick fairly persistent head, and of course the money shot running down the side of the glass. Rich banana and other esters in the aroma. Big punchy fruity and wheaty taste, with none of the effete spices that sometimes accompany lesser wheat beers. However, despite it’s really solid body, it’s unbelievably refreshing and drinkable. Sod the 5.8% - this has been proven to be a session beer, and a damn good one at that. Few, if any, bottled weizens come close to this, a classic.

Forever lasting white head thrones above the delicate pure amber body. Initially seemingly simple nose: yeasty bananas and cashew nuts. It just grows on you and boasts a great palate, full, creamy with the finest bubbled carbonation, smooth and delicate. Plenty of ripe fruits (Bananas with a capital B, berries, pomegranate, orange, apricots) accompany the perfumey and bready yeast, elegant in itself and unveiling traces of cloves and even rye or grilled marshmallow sweetness rather than straight caramel. Good stuff, very malty, extremely clean with a confident balance. One of the most quaffable (while being pleasant) products I’ve encountered. Thanks Clark!

Cloudy yellow wheat beer. Sour wheat and corn and banana and honey-like malt/yeast combo, and brown sugar grains.. Sharp coriander and cloves, better with some juice or slice of citrus. Thin creamy mouthfeel. Lightly acidic. Mild carbonation. Malt and banana aftertaste.

Bottle from Peace St. Market, Raleigh, NC. Dark straw pour, with combined aromas and tastes of caramel malt, toffee, banana, cloves, and hops. More fruit as it finishes. Nicely done, and another winner from Ayinger.