Brooklyner-Schneider Hopfen-Weisse

Pours a thick apple juice color that looks like thick chicken broth. Banana and wheat malt smell somewhat spicy with a bubblegum aroma. Thick soupy wheat grain taste, spicy with pepper, and an astringent sour finish. Full bodied wheat soup resin feel and has lively soft carbonation with the alcohol finish. Completely surprised although impressed with the balance.

Sampled at a beer and food pairing with Garritt Oliver. Poured golden with off white head. Aroma was banana, clove, yeast, and peppery hops. Had a medium mouthfeel with a lot of carbonation. Flavor followed the nose. This was paired with a jerk chicken. I never thought I would drink a hot spicy beer before. The spice in the chicken brought out peppery hot spices from the hops. Simply amazing.

750 ml bottle acquired via trade with Beerlando. Thanks! Pours a hazy goldish orangish, light hued, with big offwhite bubbly head, medium hazed, with a head that dies down somewhat. Aromas are dominated by lemony citrus, belgian spicy yeast, estery fruitiness (Banana) mixed with wheaty malts and some notes of a floral hoppiness. Initial is light on the tounge, but definitely not a light beer. Flavors are wheaty malts and grains, balancing fruity esters (Banana, again, largely), belgian yeasty spice, amarillo hops with some grassy feels, and a nice creamy sweetness. Bitterness and sweetness actually work extremely well together. A very well done brew. Look forward to trying the other version, as I hear it is on / will be on at Binnys South Loop. Cheers!

Bottle. Poured a hazy copper-orange with a substantial head that quickly dwindled. This has quite the solid Belgianesque, spicy aroma. It drinks with a musty, earthy moldiness that is somehow still pretty delicious ... a strange marriage of German wheatiness and Belgian yeastiness ... quite the blend. (#3496, 2/15/2009)

Bottle (kindly delivered by asheft!) - sampled simultaneously with the "german" version: Golden, cloudy, mid-sized fluffy "dirty" white head; extreme "sticky" piney hoppy nose with illusions of fresly mowed grass and a lighter wheaty-fruity background; very solid dry bitter flavour, creamy MF, medium to full bodied; smooth, lingering, dry hoppy and grainy finish. Great, great stuff..... The german equivalent is made by the use of different hops, which seem to be - compared directly - a little, little bit less aromatic. Nevertheless also a superb brew.......

Bottled. Weizenbock? Really? Ok, whatever. Pours with a monster head and beautifully opaque body. Very muggy, sweaty aroma, like a gym locker room, mixed with some sugary notes along with a bitter Belgian hop. Thick, dank flavor, like morning dew dripping off a hop leaf, or maybe like licking a hop leaf after some sweaty jock rubbed up against it. You get the idea.

This is a robust brew from the opening pop of the cork. A whoof of hops hits you in the nose as it is opened. The hop force side by sid e with its opposite number out weigh the subtler German borne weizen bock. The Ammarillo and allisade combo form an intense citrussy blend that nearly goes sour on the finish but is bolstered by the malt body into a reasonable finish.

750 ml. Hazy, effervescent amber with a huge creamy head that finally settles down to an inch. Nose is a nice blend of pineapple-banana bubblegum, light wheat, orange-grapefruit and pine resin. Flavor is less sweet than the aroma indicates. Starts with peppery orange-pineapple-grapefruit mixed with honey, then turns to a blend of earthy-spiced peaches and cream of wheat. Finishes with prickly, acidic citrus peel and resin. Wheat, clove and light oak also show up in the long aftertaste. Medium body is creamy smooth and finishes resiny-dry. A nice frosting is left all over the flask.