New Glarus Unplugged Imperial Weizen

Formerly brewed at New Glarus Brewing Company
Style: German Hefeweizen
New Glarus, Wisconsin USA

Serve in Weizen

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Pours a cloudy amber orange color with a large fluffy cream colored head of foam on it. Scent is heavy with wheat and sweet citrus. Taste is really full of flavor for a Hefeweizen with complex wheat mixed nicely with coriander and a slight lemon zest. Quite a heavy hitter for a Hefeweizen but rather well made as per usual with New Glarus beers!

Bottle from trade. Holy shit, this one takes you for a ride... Aromas on this are honey, clove, cinnamon, lemon, and wheat. Flavors pop from the aroma in your mouth. Just an excellent and unique beer. I want more. ---Rated via Beer Buddy for iPhone

Shared by Thorpe429. Thanks Mike. The beer is cloudy and straw yellow hued with an inch of dense, white head. The aroma offers a healthy serving of banana, with some wheat And lemons coming in behind. The flavor does not live up to the promise of the aroma. A bit soapy, and alcohol presence, which was absent in the aroma, asserts itself in the flavor profile. Lemon zest and window cleaner. Not horrible, but also not a repeat for me. Medium bodied with an odd astringency. Aventinus is still the go to weizenbock for me. Serving type: bottle Reviewed on: 04-08-2012

Bottle from B&B in Wind Lake. Had some dust on it, and very few ratings since May, so likely old. Shrug? Pours a pale orange with a white head. Aroma has fruit, straw and spices. Taste is of sweet fresh fruit, bread, spices and has some earthiness. Finishes tangy and sweet, with some spice and with some length. Nice body. One I would have liked to have while fresher.

12 oz. bottle, sent from FullObs (thanks a lot, Brett), pours a beautiful cloudy faded orange with a small white head. Aroma is full of banana, clove and wheat, with some milder citrus undertones. Flavour brings out cinnamon and clove on top, fairly unusual for a hef, at least the cinnamon notes, with citrus and banana coming in later on. Finishes on light spicy notes (from the cinnamon) and citrus. ABV is not noticeable at all, except in maybe making this feel like a bigger beer. Not a traditional hef by any means, but very enjoyable - a refreshing, easy-drinking near-10% beer.

Bottle. Pours cloudy orange with thick off white head. The nose is a strange slightly funky yeast, tangerine. Taste is fresh juicy pineapple, manderine orange with slight notes of wit yeast funk.

12 oz. bottle. Poured a hazy golden orange with white fluffy head that left splotches of lace. Flavor of sweet candi sugar, bread, yeast, bananas, and cloves. Finished dry and peppery with cinnamon and nutmeg notes. Medium bodied. Tremendously complex. Kind of like a heavy hefe that finishes like a Belgian IPA. Wish I picked up more of this in WI.

A very clean, deep yellow/golden pour, great bubbly white head and a modest amount of cascading bubbles within the brew. I cannot emphasize the inviting aroma of this beer. Sweet notes of wheat and clove hit the nose first with some mild citrus and flowery presence later. Not overly sweet nor overly spiced. Flavor has a very strong citrus orange and lemon combination with strong notes of clove in the middle and finishes up with a wheat and light alcohol bite. Surprisingly the hefe style as an imperial holds up very well. Body lacks the yeasty mouth feel but the beers density replaces that feeling very well. Overall a great offering by NG. As far as imperials go, it’s very well balanced as all flavor/aromas can be detected individually.

Poured from a 12 oz. bottle into a pint glass. Imperial Weizen pours a mildly hazy pale straw color with a very large fluffy white head that leaves a sheet of lace down the side of the glass. There is a ton of coriander and banana in the nose, with milder wheat and tangy citrus notes. The flavor is full and bold, at least by Hefe standards. The requisite wheat, coriander, and banana are present up front. Although it starts sweet, a tangy grapefruit citrus note starts building and creates a slight hoppy presence toward the end of the sip. The finish is pleasantly clean. Considering this is a 9.6% Hefeweizen, this is impressively balanced and actually a little bit dry. The start of the sip is fairly sweet, but by the end it is barely noticeable. The carbonation is creamy and crisp at the same time, and it works with the beer’s flavor. I was impressed that this did not get syrupy or cloying given the high ABV, but Hefes definitely have a ceiling in my book.

Pours unclear lemon orange in color with a decent off white head. The aroma brings bready yeast and sweet notes, with a bit of lemon in there. The flavor of sweet yeast and bready wheat style notes on a thicker but palatable body make this beer quite delicious for the style.