3.8 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 16/20
UPDATED: AUG 1, 2010 Rerate 7/28/2010
Not quite sure what happened with my original rating 8 years ago - maybe I had a bad bottle or something, but since then, Franziskaner has become one of my favorite Hefeweizens. The aroma has a wonderful blend of fruits, spices, yeast, and bananas while the taste is pretty much exactly what a hefe should be. Fruit, cloves, and vanilla all dominate the tasting and blend together perfectly. A truly wonderful hefe.
I’m usually a huge fan of hefeweizens, but this one seemed a bit bland. The color is the usual hazy yellow with a medium sized head. The aroma is slightly fruity and the taste as well, but overall, it seemed weak with a taste that left something to be desired. A refreshing beer, but nothing special - not a stand-out hefe.
Original Rating: 6/4/6/3/13 3.2/5.0 on 10.10.2002
3.7 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 14/20
50 cl. bottle @ home. Hazy old yellow with a white head. Yeasty aroma with lots of banana. Taste is also heavy banana, cloves and yeast. Great weizen.
3.4 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 12/20
From a 50 cl bottle at home in Skövde. Pale golden/yellow hazy beer with a offwhite head. Fruity aroma with banana and citrus and some pineapple. The same flavour. An ok weissbier.
3.6 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 16/20
Bottle. A good example of a hefe. Good full flavour with well balanced banana, clove and yeast. Very drinkable.
4 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 18/20
Tasting faintly of yeast, fruit, and cloves, this beaker of golden sunlight will delight the most discerning of tasters.
3.4 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 5/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
Draught at Little Prague, Tel Aviv. Pours cloudy orange with nice, white head. Aroma: bubblegum, banana and faint clove. A little sweet, a little bitter, a little watery. Light body, lively carbonation, short finish.
4.5 AROMA 9/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 9/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 19/20
Appearance was cloudy golden with 2 finger head that last awhile and good lacing.Aromas are bananas with sweet yeasts, spices are there, no hints of alcohol. Taste was heavenly Hefe, cloves, bananas sweet biscuity yesats. Mouthfeel was estery yeasts with tight carbonation with creamy body with a smooth long sweet finish. Beautiful Hefe...
3.5 AROMA 8/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 15/20
UPDATED: FEB 13, 2012 0.5 bottle. Rich aroma consisting mostly of fruity scents, banana and some minor clove touch. Nice light orange color, naturally hazy although the head has rather mediocre if not poor retention. Taste is a mixture of sweet and sour tones, crisp and refreshing, flavor is slightly too soft. Medium body and thin texture with some average carbonation. Finish is surprisingly indecisive. Overall a very good beer, highly drinkable, not flawless although really nice as for a mass produced beverage.
3.7 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 16/20
12 oz bottle poured a cloudy golden color. Aroma is yeast and a hint of fruit. Taste is of yeast and bananas.
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