Plank Hefeweizen

Brewed by Brauerei Plank Laaber
Style: German Hefeweizen
Laaber, Germany

Serve in Weizen

(500 ml bottle from Kappy’s) Pours lightly cloudy gold-amber with a tall light khaki head that takes a while to recede in my weizen. Last pour is much cloudier. Aroma of banana, caramel and light pepper. Mouthfeel is wheaty smooth, maybe a touch light for the style. Flavor of banana and light caramel with light pepper/clove. Perhaps a very light sourish tang. Light-medium bitterness, perhaps a bit more bitter than I’d normally expect for the style. Fairly pleasant overall but not too overwhelming.

Bottle. Pours a copper golden body with a white head. Sweet floral with notes of berries and candi cane sugars. Light sweet tart finish. Interesting brew. Apples bubble gum and some spritz finish.

bottle from Bierzwerg. Cloudy amber golden yellow, enormous white head. Fruity nose. Malty and wheaty with a touch of yeast and shy fruity hints. Quite mild.

Bananas and citrus with feint spices, clove, sweet aromas. Pours cloudy golden yellow with a thin head that dissipates quickly. Very wheaty and bready with light citrus notes, hints of bananas, finishes somewhat dry. Not my favorite hefeweizen but not bad.

A foamy, off-white head is relatively small for a hefeweizen, yet shows sufficient retention and leaves patchy spots of lacing behind. Underneath, a clear, golden-copper colored body displays turbulent streams of swirling, effervescing bubbles that just won’t quit. The nose is straightforward, notes of banana, light clove, and malted wheat showing like a standard hefe. Flavors follow suit, traces of caramel joining the wheat and the estery banana and spice. Hints of bready yeast show as well. It just doesn’t taste all that fresh to me. The palate is medium bodied, smooth, and quaffable. This is a suitable summertime beer, it just lacks originality and execution.

Lots of banana, fruity, and wheaty. Finishes even and strong. Well-rounded beer.

bottle, good foamy head with a strong orange color, lots of banana on the nose, flavor is even handed and well done, nice hefe

16.9oz bottle-pours a foamy off white head and gold color. Aroma is fruity, musty, some spice hops. Taste is sour fruity-apple, musty wheat, some spice hops, yeast. Clear-no cloudiness, not as much head as standard, no banana, sour is more dominant.