Cowaramup Hefeweizen

Brewed by Cowaramup Brewing Company
Style: German Hefeweizen
Cowaramup, Australia

Serve in Weizen

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Murky straw, almost yellow body with a decent white head. Cloves first up on the nose followed by light banana, some lemon characters in the taste. On the money for a summer refresher.

Tasting from late 2008.
On draught at the brewery. Second of the day enjoyed whilst admiring the hop vines growing just down from the brewhouse.
Sunny orange gold and not quite bright, yet not hazy as I expected. Head held out for a mere five minutes, a pillowy white fluff, before receding back to a thin layer of bubbles. Ripe banana and strawberry, and vanilla bean nose with an underlying taint of rubbery, band-aid phenolics. A lot of banana and sour wheat malt notes in the mouth, slightly gammy and tangy along the sides and in the back where some strawberry lingers along with notes of clove, band-aid’s and a hint of poppy seed (?). Esters and phenols die off crisply in the swallow, very clean and short. Nice light body and spritzy carbonation make it featherweight to drink. So refreshing, I can see why it is popular. A simple, nicely made wheat beer!