Penn Weizen

Brewed by Pennsylvania Brewing Company
Style: German Hefeweizen
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania USA

Serve in Weizen

Decent sized head of large bubbles. Excellent carbonation. Light and fruity aroma with apricots, oranges and a bit of yeastyness. Color is a slightly cloudy dark orange. Flavor is metallic at first and then diverges in to a syrupy sweet palate. Quite unexpected. Does not really follow with the style. Should be cleaner, crisper and drier. This is a much thicker than expected and pretty sweet. Now that I dredged up the wheat and yeast from the bottom it is pretty gritty. Mostly malts with some rice, light fruit and wheat. Finish is thick and coating. Not a good example of the style and not a very good beer.

Very mild banana esters with plenty of pastry doughlike yeast character in the nose. Opaque mily yellow coloured body is topped by a low white head that is mostly diminishing. Flavour is a somewhat bland doughy banana yeastiness with no spices apparent and very little in the way of wheat character. Light body with fizzy carbonation that does not last. Sampled on the PA trip 2005.

Brewtopia ’05 Deep golden and cloudy. aroma of banana slight clove spice.Flavor is slightly sweet and cookie-like, thin fizzy body.

From the bottle, 10/8/2005. Effervescent (large bubbles) with a rusty-copper-tangerine colored body and a bubbly, poorly retained white head. Maybe passable for a pale lager, but certainly not for a supposed German Hefe. Aroma of wet leaves, light metal (brass, copper) and some dry, bland, stale biscuity malts. Weak esters struggle to keep from drowning in all of the water and bland graininess. Flavors of light chalk/crayons, grainy, ricey-like malt flavor with a poor mouthfeel (large, lazy bubbles) and a tremendously weak body. Seems like a crappy pale lager fermented at really high temperatures. Ack. My girlfriend couldnt even drink this and she has far higher a tolerance for garbage beer than I do.

Weakish nose offers a doughy yeastiness dominance with limited soapy banana esters and almost absent hops/malt flavours. It pours light gold, murky and wearing a frothy yet diminishing white head. In mouth, vanilla finds its way through the doughyness, but yogurty, lactic and astringent tartness acts as the supreme authority and plunders its merits. Weak, light bodied thin and grainy demonstration.

Pours a slightly cloudy golden hue with a light white. big-bubbled, head. Aromas of light cinnamon, a little banana, some pepper and some clove in for good measure. Flavors of all the aromas with a light bitterness. There is a lignering sweetness which may be because of an old bottle. Yeast is very pronounced and the brew is wuite refreshing. A little more full-bodied than most german hefe’s.

Very cloudy orange beer that throws up a good fizzy white head but it goes away pretty quick, no lacing. The aroma is very nice banana and citrus, bubblegum. Flavor is excellent. Full and fruity, with orange and spice, and loads of yeasty goodness. This is as good as the best authentic German examples. Impressive.

Absolutely top-notch Weizen. Juicy, with a great balance of fruitiness and clove. I am hard-pressed to think of a more authentic American example of this style. What an easy drinker.