Dundee Wheat Beer

Name: JW Dundees Hefeweizen
Date: May 23, 2009
Mode: Bottle
Source: Ticker Tasting
Appearance: hazy pale orange, fine off white head, streaks of lace
Aroma: light spicy malt aroma
Flavor: sweet caramel malt flavor, light spicyness, light bitterness
Overall: not a hefeweized, boring
Aroma: 5/10; Appearance: 6/10; Flavor: 5/10; Palate: 6/10; Overall: 9/20
Rating: 2.5/5.0
Drinkability: 6/10
Score: *4

Cloudy golden with medium white head. Sweet malty aroma with notes of wheat adn caramel. Flavour is dominated by cardboard.

Bottle at the Hagerstown Suns Beer Tasting... Cloudy golden ale with a small, creamy, white head. Other than a little apricot in the nose, I detect no esters or phenols normally associated with the style. Nice flavor... good balance. Grainy with a small hop bite. Light-bodied and watery with fizzy carbonation. Short, crisp, clean finish. Better than expected. More of an American wheat than a hefeweizen... but I now see that’s exactly the way it’s categorized on this website. Good call Ratebeer admins or Metalhead!

12oz bottle-pours a white head that dissipates to a ring and hazed gold color. Aroma is light/medium malt, floral-coriander, maybe some honey. Taste starts thin, mid taste light/medium malt, floral-coriander, maybe some honey, finishes floral/seltzery. No banana/clove.

Another non-descript American wheat beer. Some wheat notes are present, but otherwise not much going on here.

Very pale white-yellow colour. Aroma is lightly wheaty and little else. There is a kiss of light citrus and a bit of soft herbal character. Almost no flavour at all really, wheat malt and nothing else, but I could see pounding these on a hot summer’s day... actually, that pretty much describes today.

For an "unfiltered wheat" (from the commercial description), this sure pours a clear golden body. Nice thick head... for a while. It smells of toasted wheat, honeycomb, and lemon zest. The flavor retains the toasted wheat but gains the bitterness one experiences when accidentally crunching on an orange pip. The brewer really thinks this is a hefeweizen?

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Near cloudy straw colored liquid. Thick, fairly lasting white head. Aromas of wheat, pale malt and hints of floral hops and lemongrass. Wheat, light honey and lemon in the flavors. Simple wheat/american ale. Quite typical and boring.