Franziskaner Hefe-Weissbier

On tap - hazy golden pour with a thick white head...a typical hefe pour! Aroma is very bready and yeasty with citrusy accents. Flavor is full and yeasty...lots of banana, clove and orange accents. Oily on the palate and very refreshing...another underrated hefe on ratebeer.com!

(Bottle at Jacoby’s German Biergarten in downtown Detroit). Bubbly gold with average wheat beer head. Classic light fruity aroma and taste, lively on the palate. Crisp and refreshing.

Bottle from Safeway in the United States. One of the classics. Pours a cloudy orange with a thick white head. Bready and citrus orange. Bready, yeasty flavor with notes of lemon, apricot, clove, and coriander. Richer than most hefeweizens here in the United States.

(Draught at MacKinlay’s, Stockholm) Orange, cloudy colour with frothy, off-white head. Fruity nose with citric hints of wheat, bread, peaches and banana. Fruity, malty taste with notes of banana, plums and sweetish hints of cereal. Nice, consistent and refreshing summer beer, but doesn’t really rock my world.

Nice to rate those that I’ve had before, but not had the chance to write down. Pours slightly orange-gold into the glass, hazy, with a large fluffy head that leaves lace. Lots of banana on the nose. The brew is semi-dry, with banana notes (maybe mingling with some lemon). High carbonation levels, per the style, show next, beginning mid-palate... accompanying this begins the wheat contingency and a tad of orange. This eventually leads to a dry spicy finish, closing with slight clove and yeast/wheat notes. Nothing is overt or overdone, and the mouthfeel is a bit seltzer-like. German hefe’s tend to have large carbonation levels, but I’m really missing some substance in the middle of the pull. Better than its dunkel counterpart, it’s a decent summer brew. Still at odds with it somehow.