4.2 AROMA 9/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 17/20
Bottle. Pours a dark orangey golden with a huge, fluffy white head (good giveaway that it’s wheat). Aroma is wonderful: lots of fruit (apple, peach, mango); lots of fairly sweet biscuity, doughy malt; some caramel; some spicy, floral hops. Flavor is a lot dryer, not as a fruity, with more emphasis on the malt and a lightly bitter finish. The wheat is fairly muted in both the aroma and flavor, but there is some clove that melds nicely with the floral, spicy hops. Great weizen bock.
3.7 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 16/20
Bottle shared with RB/BA folk... Poured hazy golden orange with a white head. The bottle was from 2009 which is a little old for this, but I thought it carried itself nicely. Still some remnant hop flavors, but the yeast was spicy and fruity. Citrus, some decent amount of fruit esters and some sugar characters as well.
4 AROMA 9/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 15/20
Scharfer Hopfengeruch, eindeutig diesem Bier zurordbar. Starker aber noch zurückhaltender Hopfenantrunk, süffig, der Alkohol mach sich wenig bemerkbar und ist eher hintergründig anzutreffen. Hier könnte es das bier stützen, was dank der Aromen nie wirklich ausgenutzt wird. Im Mittelteil wird das Bier erneut stark hopfig, im Abgang sogar etwas stechend. Sehr sehr wenig bitter, aromatisch hopfig. Ausgewogen, angesichts des starken Hopfens erstaunlich süffig. Vielen Dank an den Doppelbock für das Bier! 11/12/12/13/14/12
3.6 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 15/20
Hazy golden with a medium white head. Fruity with spicy notes. Malt, fruit and spices ( coriander ? ) Full body with a well balanced finish.
4 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 17/20
Cloudy amber/gold color; Medium slightly creamy body; Aroma of wheat, yeast, spicy hops, & clove; Flavor of wheat, yeast, spicy hops, clove, bananas, citrus, and some pepper; Finish is slightly bitter; Nicely balanced & complex; Overall, quite hoppy for the style - but well done.
3.6 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 14/20
Sample as bonus beer at the Veldensteiner tasting at Blacklick Wine & Spirits on 4/8/11. Clear amber pour with a huge off-white head. Nose of dankness, caramel, some esters and crisp grassy hops. Malty and estery flavor with some sweetness and an earthy hop finish.
2.9 AROMA 5/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
I had this on tap at the Map Room...Medium honey gold, very hazy. Light white head, not much retention or lacing...The aroma is light mostly wheat, a bit of alcohol...The taste is way way to sweet, makes it really hard to drink a lot of this. Tons of sweet honey, just sweet in general, way to much. The feel is ok, hard to drink a whole glass of this.
4 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 16/20
Tasted on 3/9/11 on draft at Inovasi. Pours slightly hazy orange with a massive off-white head that slowly settles into smooth and even lace, leaving a bunch of residue along the inside of the glass. The nose is fairly straight-forward German wheat beer with the anise, clove, and banana, but there is an added hop element that runs the gamut from resin to citrus to floral notes. The flavor starts off as a big (high alcohol) wheat beer with some sweetness, banana, clove, anise, and then moves to a very clean hoppy flavor that is more floral and citrus than resin. The body is full with an oily, slick texture, average carbonation, and a long finish that features both banana, and hops bitterness.
4.3 AROMA 9/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 9/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 17/20
Reviewed from notes.
Pours a somewhat dark yellow with a nice white head. A bit hazy. Nose brings a good amount of bubblegum, banana, and clove. Also a nice citrus hop presence. The taste really elevates the hops quite a bit. I’m not expert, but I’d venture at least a bit of Amarillo. Good German weizen yeast characteristics as well. Good, light feel with nice carbonation. Drinks really, really well. I’m a big fan of this.
Serving type: bottle
Reviewed on: 10-19-2010
3.9 AROMA 9/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 16/20
750 ml corked bottle, a slightly different presentation from the Schneider one.
This one has a great scent, you can smell the dry hopping and it has a nice citrus spice character. Theres some traditional fruity wheaty hefe scent in here too which intrigues me to try it. The dry hops in this one were more impressive than the ones in the Schneider.
It’s a taste experience, it has a nice balance though its as expected a far hoppier version of the darker hefe’s. It starts with a typical wheat flavor and then leads into a nice bit of hops, nice and bitter.
It’s medium bodied and not quite the most drinkable brew.
Overall it’s a style thats very taboo and hard to find a decent example of but this is probably the quintiseential hopfen-weisse.
Put against the Schneider one they are almost equal with this one smelling and looking slightly better an the Schneider one tasting slightly better.
Serving type: bottle
Reviewed on: 02-14-2010 01:06:22
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