Flying Dog In-Heat Wheat Hefeweizen

Brewed by Flying Dog Brewery
Style: German Hefeweizen
Frederick, Maryland USA

Has more flavor than almost any other hefeweizen that I’ve had. Flying Dog beers are impressing me (and I’ve only tried two so far).

Opaque straw color. Rocky white head. Nose has a lot of citrus and fresh bread aromas. Very nice. On the palate a pleasant, dry wheat cracker taste at first followed by faint banana and some clove. I think the wheat is doing more in this beer than the yeast does, or the yeast should I guess (the nice banana clove). But still, a very impressive beer. Body is medium, perhaps on the full side for a hefe. Definitely thicker than most weizens, and so I’d say a tad less on the drinkability scale. On a hot summer day this thirst quencher will fill you up quickly.

On draft at In de Wildeman, Amsterdam. Yellow coloured, white head. Banana nose. Banana wheat flavour, quite ok initially but it has an odd cloyingly sweet finish. An attempt to make a Hefeweizen, but not a very good one.

bottle. Pours amber with an off-white head. Nose is of banana bread. Taste was the same banana bread. Mouthfeel was thin with lots of carbonation. Not bad.

Tasted at Keystone....11Kft above sea level. Was confused with this beer, not a true Hefeweizen, not terribly composed, too dark, head not right, aroma strange and palate confusing. Drank it down, but only out of spite.

Bottled - golden color with small white head. Smelled clean with a bit of banana & clove. Tastes thin and somewhat unsatisfying....just not what I was wanting or expecting in a hefe - but otherwise not a horrible beer.

330 ML bottle in USA. Well not up to German standards at all. No head, cloudly, and unnatural feel. Taste was not too bad but palate was weak. Fizzy and disappointing.

Hazy yellow pour with white head. Faint aroma of clove and bananas. Taste was the same. Had a second bottle that was foamy as heck. Thought it had a slight different taste.