Great Northern Wheatfish Hefeweizen

Brewed by Great Northern Brewing Company
Style: German Hefeweizen
Whitefish, Montana USA

Serve in Weizen

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Had this at the brewery. Pours a slighty cloudy golden color. Yeasty, wheat scent. Taste is about the same. Pretty boring basic American wheat beer. If that is your thing you may like it. I tend to like more Bavarian styles and I thought thats what I was getting.

On tap. Hazy golden color with a thin white head. Scent is light, with wheat and some fruit. Taste is wheat. Snooze.

Draft sample at the brewery in Whitefish. Just seemed to be lacking some German characters of clove, banana and spice. Much light flavor and mouthfeel more like a krystal.

Tap. Godd head. Cloudy yellow. Served with lemon wedge. Fairly straight forward but yeasty rather than filtered.

Bottled in Columbia Fals, MT. (as Great Northern Wheatfish Wheat Lager). Hazy golden, rich head. Aroma of peach, grapefruit and wheat crackers. Fairly sweet with light medium body, rounded mouthfeel. Finishes with medium bitterness. More aromatic and pleasing then you’d expect from a "wheat lager", but deffintely altogether without banana/clove character.

Sampled at the brewery. Hazy pale yellow, thin white head. Aroma of orange, banana, clove, wheat. Taste of spiced bread. Medium light body, lively carbonation.

Suprise suprise this beer is really really light. Slight malt body, but nothing signifcant. Goes down easy, you might forget you are driking anything at all.

Oregon Brew Fest: hazy golden brown with a malty aroma, flavor is pretty high in wheat malt but not much else, decent but nothing special.

Bottle. After trying this beer on a sampler tray at Great Northern Brewing Co., I picked up a sixer to take back to our cabin in Glacier National Park. Poured with a large, frothy white head with good lacing. Body was cloudy and yellow. Great aroma of light yeast, wheat, and some fruitiness. Medium-bodied on the palate, thin with some oiliness, and average carbonation. Great flavor with average duration that was lightly sweet... you can taste the wheat, but not in amounts as high as some other wheat ales. Overall I thought it was very enjoyable, and a great summer ale. I could have several of these out on the deck.

Hazy bright yellow, moderate white head. Very sweaty aroma, wet hair, maybe a hint of citrus in there. Bready palate, creamy mouthfeel, sweet with a slightly tart finish. Not a lot of yeast-driven character, and so it fairs poorly under the hefe designation.