Penn Weizen

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

Bottled, thanks marbles! Cloudy pale orange. Estery, orangey nose. Sweet and soft with notes of peach and fraspberry, Mild and true to style, but with it’s own twist. Good stuff.

Name: Penn Weizen
Date: 10/08/2006
Mode: Bottle
Source: Roadtrip

hazy gold, pours with a big frothy white head, light bitter clove aroma, flavor contains a touch of banana sweetness, light bitterness, mostly flavorless, too filtered?

Aroma: 4/10; Appearance: 5/10; Flavor: 3/10; Palate: 5/10; Overall: 7/20
Rating: 2/5.0
Drinkability: 6/10
Score: *+/4

Very cloudy yellow. Slightly wheaty aroma. Flavour is wheaty, a little bit tart, with moderate sweetness and light yeastiness. Not particularly distinctive, but not a bad beer.

Hazy golden body with big off-white foam. Aroma is medium sweet, clove and wheat. Taste is medium banana sweet up front, turning wheat and clove mid-body, before finishing clove/light lemon tart. Light body, fairly crisp, with moderately high carbonation. Delicious Hefe.

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.

Bottle courtesy of Pat (pjk33). Stylish wheat! Quite authentically German tasting! Lots of banana esters poking around aswell as the mandatory cloves, quite wheaty and soft, tasty stuff indeed, the best American made hefeweizen i can remember having, thanks Pat!

Harrisburg Beer Festival 2... Draft... Murky, sunshine yellow ale with a tiny, creamy, white head. Apple, mandarin orange, tobacco, clove and apricot in the nose. Well-balanced, citrusy flavor with traces of spice and lemon peel. Light-bodied and fizzy. Short, crisp, clean finish. Not a fan of this Summer style... and this festival was (appropriately) full of them.

(Bottle, Arena’s Deli & Beach Bar, Rehoboth Beach, DE) Pours a lightly cloudy golden body with a small white head. Aroma of orange (tart). Flavor is almost gueze like, rather than a hefeweizen; quite tart, but not spoiled tasting.