Marin Hefe Weiss

Brewed by Marin Brewing Company
Style: Wheat Ale
Larkspur, California USA

Serve in Shaker, Weizen

Bottled. This beer pours with more head than any I’ve ever seen! The aroma is actually very bready and the flavors lacks the sweetness and diversity of a german hef. There is a lingering bready taste that I can’t say I’m too fond of. I’m going to chase this beer with one that’s actually good just to banish that flavor.

Bottle. 22oz. Pours a somewhat cloudy golden yellow with an incredible, over-the-top head. Highly carbonated. This was not a German Hefewizen and actually reminded me more of a saison without the citrus. Pineapple flavors with a hefty dose of yeast. This was pretty disappointing.

This is somewhat weak and finishes in my opinion somewhere between a German style and an American style. Unbalanced and one sided, with a very pale and weak appearance. A nose that is somewhat funky and yeasty, but very light with just a bit of tanginess. Flavor has some maltiness, that tastes very cheap, and shortcutted. This beer sells itself short and I am not even finished with the bomber, nor do I want to be.

Pale yellow gold color with a slight haze, towering foamy white head that took more time to manage than the beer did to drink. Musky earthen floral aroma, hard to pinpoint. Aromatics extend to flavors, along with a grainy sweetness. Almost perfume finish. Mouthfeel is light with a large CO2 component.

(22 oz bottle: $2.99 at Holiday Wine Cellar in Escondido, CA) The typical mess was waiting for me, Pale straw in color, and only somewhat hazy, this is a pretty sickly look beer, but after all, the beer is called "Hefe Weiss", so I guess I should have expected the "white" color. The head wanted to explode out of the glass, but Marin bottles have pulled that trick on me once too often, so I was ready. Thus, I only got a few inches of bubbly, white head which quickly died down to a manageable level, leaving some large patches of foam on the glass. The nose is perfumy and sweet, with a grainy aroma that is getting close to smelling like corn. More borderline grain/corn flavor as the base, with some a very gentle bitterness in the finish. The strong fruity notes that are intially sweet, but then become tart and acidic in the finish. It all remind me of a cheap, sweet sparkling wine (I guess that’s redundant). The body is light and vivacious from all the effervescence and the tart finish. I fully recognize that this is one bizarro beer. It’s not like a German Hefeweizen, but it’s not supposed to be. It’s not like your typical American Wheat beer either. It’s just weird, but for whatever reason, I’m kind of liking it. I’ll actually drink the entire bomber in one sitting.

Bottle. Poured the typical hazy yellow color with a decent sized head. Aroma was pretty bland, mostly spice coming through. The flavor was not to my liking, did not have the usual banana, yeast taste to it. It had a spicy taste that was a little off to me. Not a German style hefe to me, more an interpretation of an American wheat I think. Not too good though.

Bottle acquired in trade with DarkElf (Thanks!). There was a loud popping sound as I opened this one. Talk about pouring all head - 7 finger sized head with less than a third sized finger of liquid. Poured a cloudy light yellow color (when the head finally settled down). Aromas of yeast and light spices. Tastes of wheat, lemons, spices and light bananas.

very white head-looked like whipped egg whites.too foamy( it kept fizzing over the glass as I poured). looked like grapefruit juice. very bland. I do not recomend it. worst wheat I’ve tasted