Haandbryggeriet Bavarian Weizen

Brewed by Haandbryggeriet (Norway)
Style: German Hefeweizen
Drammen, Norway

Serve in Weizen

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A slightly hazy orange beer with a disappearing off-white head. The aroma is sweet yeasty and wheaty, and so is the flavor. The end is dry wheaty. Thanks to Haandbryggeriet for supplying this for RBESG.

Courtesy of Erzbierschof. 50cl bottle, bottled 2010, a month from expiry. Pours a cloudy yellow with visible chunks of brown yeast, and a white head; a gusher. Smells of banana, clove, citrus peel, and yeast. Tastes sweet, with a mild tang, and a bit like some cookies. Texture is creamy smooth, with a medium body, and soft-but-active carbonation.

I thought this carried a surprising amount of palate weight despite the relatively modest 5.5%. Plenty of spice and aniseed wrapped up in a thick flavour profile. Finish is really quite bitter and almost tangy.

UPDATED: FEB 1, 2012 Bottle from Vinmonopolet i Halden. Light hazy dark golden colour with a white head. Sweet aroma with a hint of usual banana, but also some spices. Sweet and floral flavour with some light banana notes.

500ml bottle. Pours a clear medium gold, with a small, loose white head, which fades rapidly and leaves no lace. The aroma is pretty stock-standard weizen - estery banana and some cloves. To taste it is a little sour initially, moving into a sweet and slightly bland body. The finish is a little cloying, but with some pleasant musk notes to redeem it. This is a fairly average weizen, nothing more.

50cl, Norwegian brew, from De Bierkoning Amsterdam, complex brew, spicy and slighty fruity/sweet, balanced, cloudy, small head, good brew

Sample @ HBF 2010. Originally rated on 9.4.2010. Slightly unbalanced hefeweizen with notes of yeast, banana and malts.

Surprisingly dark in color, almost amber with a quickly vanishing off-white head. Citrus-like aroma with notes of orange, lemon and peach and ripe banana and a little seasoning. Semi-sweet malt base, but dry and wheaty finish. Lively carbonation. It’s odd that the name of the beer is German, as it tastes and smells almost Belgian, with a funky norwegian twist. I quite like it.

Tap at Amundsen. Orange hazy, thick white head. Smells of citrus, banana and yeasts. Body is maybe a bit too malty but has good sweetness/acid balance. Finish is not very hoppy. A good weizen that also will work as a good thirst killer

Misty gold weizen strong carbonation aroma fruity green banana spice yeast malt sweetness mild flavour green banana yeast has a creaminess and sweet note coriander very smooth a clove touch finish smooth weizen all the right tastes creaminess a plus but lacks some zip of the good weizens a bit dull

Erfrischend fruchtiger Antrunk mit spritzuger Gefe. Vollmundig, die Bananigkeit ist angenehm herb. Später dezent bitter, weiter vollmundig und ausgewogen. Gut! 10/11/12/11//11