Marin Doppel Weizen Wheat Ale

Brewed by Marin Brewing Company
Style: German Hefeweizen
Larkspur, California USA

Serve in Weizen

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Cloudy golden color with white head. Mild citrus aroma. Crisp malty but unremarkable flavor with some grassy an yeasty notes and a rather flat palate

Hazy orange with a short head. Short retention and minimal lace. Caramel, oranges, and light spice on the nose. Medium sweet wheat, lightly spiced flavor with warming heat. Medium body, decent carbonation, med-thick texture, and a short syrupy finish.

Bottle. Orange-amber beer with a thin off-white head. Caramel and light spice aroma. Caramel and spice flavor with light wheat. Medium bodied. Caramel and spice lingers with light wheat and light citrus.

Tap at the brewery. Clear light amber pour with a light off white head. Wheat and slightly boozy in the mouth. Very one dimensional. Med palate.

Bottle:   Clear golden, thin to modreate white head, a few rings of lacing.   Rather clear for a Wheat Ale.   Grassy, hay, and straw on the nose.   Doesn’t smell like much of a Wheat Beer.   Very basic wheaty aspect on the tongue.   Feels hefty, warming, certainly bigger than most American Wheats.   Also feels somewhat mealy and cardboard oriented.   Ugh, thats two beers in a row.   Not much about this screens Wheat Beer.   For a Wheat Beer it is subtle, certainly warming, and very mealy.   Not what I was expecting at all.   Lingering mealy based wheaty malts.   This one is an odd duck, not all that American Wheat like, not German at all.   Even Pyramids Imperial Hefe was more Wheat Based.   This one just doesn’t strike a chord with me.   Not bad, but certainly not all that entertaining either.

Pours a cloudy dark yellow hue. Nose is banana, fruits, and melanoidins. Flavor is doppel-like malts with a edge of hefe bananas and fruits, finishes sweet. Medium body and ample carbonation. An interesting hybrid of styles that actually works well, extra points for innovation.

Draft @ the brewpub. Pours a pale golden color with a small off-whit e head. Has a sweetish wheat malty aroma with some hints of citrus. Sweetish wheat malty spicy flavor. Has a sweetish wheat malty and fruity finish with some hints of citrus.

Pours hazy pale golden with a thin white head. The nose is sweet and slightly fruity. The flavor is not as sweet but goes more dry. Decent lasting finish.

bottle, light yellow gold, aroma of sweet wheat and white grapes,flavor is a mix of wheat and some IPA like hops, finish is mild

Draft at Marin. Clear gold, white head. Typical hefe aroma is a bit subdued. Same flavor, very clean but very mild. Medium body, balanced, easy drinking. Decent.