Pike Weisse

Brewed by Pike Pub & Brewery
Style: German Hefeweizen
Seattle, Washington USA

A lightly hazed golden weizen with a thin white head. In aroma, intense bananas, cloves and aromatic esters, intense and nice. In mouth, a light wheat malt with intense cloves, light aniseed, thinner than expected but very good. On tap at brewpub, Sept. 12 2009.

Pretty wheaty aroma. Uncloudy look. Falvor is better though. Not that wheay, with a good light character. Drinkable.

Hazy orange brown, same as the wood at the table in the brewpub. Medium-full roast aroma. Seems strongly spiced, doesn’t the description at the bar say it’s Belgian? Now I can’t remember and it’s not in my notes. Initially toasted wheat, strong yeast character and seems to be spiced with coriander. I hope I’m not way off. As I drink it, it softens into gentle citrus and a bit of smoky driftwood.

Tap@Brewpub. Strong banana aroma with some lemon. Hazy, dark yellow colour, white head, good lace. Sweetish, banana, hint of grapefruit, bitter for a Weizen. Refreshing, high drinkability, not really special but more than OK.

en pike brewery con sici, parte de un sampler de siete birrias. pike’s market es increible, las patas de king crab inmensas. se come bien en seattle. esta talvez fue la mejor despues de la tandem y la extra stout. suave y me gusto mas la pyramid

Draft at the brewpub. Pours a slightly hazy light copper amber with a fairly apathetic little off-white head. Big sour wheat nose with plenty of banana yeast esters and clove notes as well. Homebrew tried it and pointed out that too many american brewers refuse to believe that hefeweizen yeasts can work well at 62-64F, so they leave them out at 74-76 and they go bonkers, leaving behind way too many esters in the process. Interesting point. The body’s creamy and medium, plenty more of the banana and clove plus sour yeast on the mid-palate. It’s a clean enough little beer but they probably need to rethink the philosophy behind their fermentation.

This beer is not that great at all! I do not recommend this beer. Had a VERY mild wheat taste. I was drunk while drinking this, and I couldn’t taste a freaking thing! I was trying to taste the banana, clove, or wheat flavor and you know what I tasted? Nothing! This draft was very mild and disappointing. The color was different. It didn’t have that yellow type of color that I was expecting! Booh! Anyways, not a great experience for me. I visited the brewery/pub and it was great, but this beer not so much. Very light malt flavors. Honestly, I was disturbed that they called this a wheat beer.

Great wheat flavor shines through constantly. Great carbonation. Yeast flavors a bit too mild. Strong cereal flavors. A decent hefe.