Kapuziner Weissbier

Brewed by Kulmbacher Brauerei (Schörghuber)
Style: German Hefeweizen
Kulmbach, Germany

Bottle. Poured an hazy orange color with an average frothy white head that mostly diminished with good lacing. Moderate sour citrus clove aroma. Medium body with a sticky texture. Medium sweet flavor with a medium spicy sweet finish of moderate duration. Drinkable beer.

Cloudy orange-gold with a large white head. Initially a rather vegetal aroma was followed by yeast, old leather and a salty seaside tang. Later some bubblegum emerged. Taste had sourness, cloves, some wheaty background and a late bitterness. Thought-provoking if not completely delicious.

Bottle. Golden cloudy color with a huge white lasting head. Aroma and flavour of wheat, yeast and fruits.

Specimen no. 200, courtesy of the in-laws. Hastily chilled sample in the brewery’s novelty, world cup-shaped Weizen. Deep murky orange topped with fine white foam. Plenty of spicy, piney dryness, perfumey banana and sour wheat in the nose. Smoothly milky mouthfeel. Flavour oddly stale and grainy at first, but plenty enough fruit (banana, peach?) ,tangy wheat, and strange dryness emerging to keep me raising the vase. A woodily boozy, almost smoky rum note also, unusual for a Hefe. That graininess reminds me of Etalon. A dry, complex and difficult-to-describe example of the style.

Bottle. Pours a hazy yellow gold with a very nice white head. Nose is wheaty and banana. This continues into the flavor. A nice balance between the sweet and sour characters. This was a good hefeweizen although I think it was slightly thin.

Pours hazy straw into the glass, with a big frothy head that leaves light webbed lacing. The nose is of banana and yeast. This transfers into the flavor in much the same fashion. The carb levels are a bit high, with the mouthfeel a shade thinner than normal (or maybe not... I’m riding the fence on this). Not bad at all... missing the clove finish that makes a truly indicative master hefe.

Brown bottle, 1 pint 9 ounces, purchased on August 26, 2006 while tripping to Beers of the world (Rochester) with Dum, Ian and Lubière; eye: burnt orangey, white head that disappears but leaves a ring around the glass, no effervescence, cloudy; nose: yeast, bread, banana, grapefruit, light malt, light clove; mouth: yeast, "spicy" bitterness, coriander, banana, finale in yeast with a hint of "spicy" bitterness, creamy texture, lightly sweet, mildly bitter, slightly astringent, medium body, good carbonation; overall: slightly disappointed FRANÇAIS Bouteille brune, 1 pinte 9 onces, voyage à Beers of the world avec Dum, Ian et Lubière, acheté le 26 août 2006; oeil : orange brûlée, mousse blanche qui disparaît assez rapidement, pas d’effervescence, voilée; nez : levure, pain, banane, citron, pamplemousse, léger malt, léger clou de girofle; bouche : levure, amertume piquante, coriandre, banane, finale en levure avec une petite pointe d’amertume, texture crémeuse, légèrement sucrée, moyennement amère, légère astringence, corps moyen, bonne carbonatation; en résumé : un peu décevante

Bottled: Fruity, sourly aroma with citrus notes. Orange color, much carbonation and huge head. Flavor is sweet with fruity notes of cloves, peaches and apricot. Wam, sometimes soapy mouthfeel. A bit light bodied.