Left Hand Haystack Wheat

Brewed by Left Hand Brewing Co.
Style: German Hefeweizen
Longmont, Colorado USA

Bottle. Clear sunflower pour under a short dirty white head. Mild citrus aroma with a little yeasty note. Tastes like a light version of Franziskiner with mild bubble gum, banana and crisp malt. Could use more hops. Thin mouthfeel. Not a bad beer but not worth hunting down.

06-28-2008 Vintage (1.69 single) - Pale, blonde pour into a cloudy, quickly dissipating head. Armoa of musty straw and chalky yeast, banannas and spice (cloves & nutmeg are present). Palate of barley and old yeasty bread. Heavy on the carbonation and unfiltered malt chunks floating in the bottom of bottle. Certainly a bottom of the barrel batch. Glad I didn’t get more than one of these.

bottle poured a lightly hazed golden brass color with a one finger fluffy head that retained a nice layer through the beer. aroma has nice dark fruited yeast, wheat, light spice, banana, clover, and light candy sugar. mouth feel is light with average carbonation. flavor has a wheat base, nice yeast flavors (banana, dark fruit, and spice), grass, and dough. finish is thin with a short duration.

(Draught at Oliver Twist, Stockholm, 26 Oct 2008) Cloudy golden amber colour with frothy, white head. Fruity nose with notes of banana, peaches and wheat-flour dough. Fruity taste with banana, plums, peaches and a sweet wheat character with a spicy touch. Short, but fresh, sweet-and-sour finish. Nice hefeweizen with lots of German style characteristics, possibly a touch too sweet. In short: sweet and peachy wheat.

Draught at Odin’s Den. Very pale yellow color. This was kinda boring. difficult to smell in a smokey bar, but didn’t really do it for me. Wasn’t bad. Fruity and subtle candy taste.

Draught at Oliver Twist. Short foam. Litle clowdy, nice yellow color. Aroma of cloves and synthetic banana esthers as in candy. Typical german wheat beer taste but too sweet for my liking. Too big body for a wheat beer.

Before ratebeer, I was a wheatbeer head and this one is tasty because it seems to meld the citrus tone nicely with coriander and banana. There is some dryness but not a lot of depth as far as texture. Its more of a thirst quencher and it could have some more candy flavor to beef this one up to the level of say SH White.

Orange/golden with light haziness and massive white foamy head. Very nice clean sweet aroma of citrus and some floral. Fruity citrus, wheat, yeast, somewhat sweet but not really malty. Bright effervescence. Sweet finish. Not usually a big fan of wheat beers but I really liked this one.