Dragonmead Nagelweiss Wheat Beer

Brewed by Dragonmead Brewery
Style: German Hefeweizen
Warren, Michigan USA

Serve in Weizen

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draft at the pub... a forgettable wheat beer, not bad but boring not worth having

Sample at Dragonmead on 7/23/11. Hazy yellow pour with a medium white head. Aroma of banana, but there are some botanical notes mixed in, so we’ll call it green bananas along with wheat malt. Flavor of banana, chloropyll and a bit of pepperiness on the back end.

Golden yellow pour. This is all banana, clove, and grassy hops. Crisp and refreshing.

On tap at Dragonmead 3-13-09. Poured hazy yellow. Smelled of wheat, banana, and clove. Tasted of wheat, grainy, banana, citrius, mild spices, and butter. Pretty thick body.

On tap at the Dragonmead Brew Pub. Poured a medium and cloudy yellow color with a small sized white head. Aromas of bananas, cloves and some wheat. Tastes of bananas, cloves, wheat, and citrus. The profile for a Hefe was there if not on the thinner and semi-thin side.

Draft at the Stein Haus in Bay City: Sunny yellow pour with a frothy cap that settles into dollops of foam in the middle of the glass. From here, the beer really falls into an average category for the style. It displays a nice wheaty body that is leveled by some honey flavored malt. The yeast does a decent job throwing some banana and clove, but moderate at best. It drinks easy and is refreshing, but lacks that certain complexity that takes an average hefe to the top. A solid made beer that will please the masses.

I love a good hefe with all of those distinct aromas and flavors. This one fell just a bit short because it was too one dimensional. Cloves dominated both aroma and flavor. Ok, some lemon was present but clove reigned supreme here. Still, it was a pleasant beer.

Cloudy pale body with small, white head. The aroma is slightly sweet, bananas, apricot and bread. The flavor is fairly sweet, dough, banana and cotton candy. Medium/light body with moderate carbonation and a pithy finish.

Pours a hazy yellow color with a thin white head. Aroma and flavor of bananas and bubble gum. The body is light to medium with an oily texture and soft carbonation.

A nice hefe, with the typical banana and clove, and to me a little more wheatiness, and perhaps even malt than I usually pick up. Very smooth mouthfeel, but not too light. I got a little bit of sourness in the finish, and I rather enjoyed that.