Schneider & Brooklyner Hopfen-Weisse

Name: Schneider Brooklyner Hopfen Weisse
Date: 05/12/2008
Mode: Bottle
Source: Trade

Appearance: cloudy orange, pours with a huge off white head, streaks of drippy lace,
Aroma: strong banana aroma with strong balancing spicyness and just a touch of sweetness from the banana esters,
Body: big creamy body,
Flavor: lots of banana flavor is well balanced with spicy clove, touch of sweetness from the banana, light bitterness from the spicyness,
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Name: Schneider Brooklyner Hopfen Weisse
Brewery: Brooklyn Brewery
Date: 05/17/2008
Mode: Draft
Source: Barley’s, NC

Appearance: clear dark amber, wispy beige head, scattered bits of lace,
Aroma: sweet dark caramel aroma with nice dark fruits and a touch of spicyness, light fusel alcohol upon warming,
Flavor: balanced flavors of dark caramel, dark fruits, and chocolate, estery sweetness brings out the malts, very light balancing bitterness,

Aroma: 7/10; Appearance: 7/10; Flavor: 7/10; Palate: 6/10; Overall: 13/20
Rating: 3.4/5.0
Drinkability: 8/10
Score: **+/4
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Name: Schneider Brooklyner Hopfen Weisse
Date: 05/25/2008
Mode: draft
Source: brick store

a bit drier with more of the hops and spicyness coming through,

Aroma: 7/10; Appearance: 7/10; Flavor: 7/10; Palate: 8/10; Overall: 14/20
Rating: 3.6/5.0
Drinkability: 8/10
Score: **4

Pours a vibrant, hazy gold with a huge white head. Some flecks of yeast floating around. Aroma of banana, orange, and coriander. Very fruity; slightly tart. Flavor is assertive but soft; there’s a definite spiciness, some mellow hops, and more fruity esters and clove. Finish is dry and tangy with some alcohol warmth. Very nice weizenbock.

Very unusual looking beer, bright golden honey colour, very dense and cloudy wiith a large head. Sharp spicy fruity aroma. Banana, clove estery with a dry hop character that could have not worked if it were stronger, but is nicely restrained. Strange and very interesting

Cloudy golden color topped by a huge white head. Spicy aroma, lots of cloves and woody hops. Banana like yeast esters and lots of spicy, zesty hops and some lemon notes and lingering bitterness in the finish.

necco wafer all over this thing. Spicy fruit and bubbly. Big head and easy to drink dispite such 8.2% banana perhaps a just a bit of the hop. Nice to see the Germans out there participating and trying new things.

Heavily carbonated and spiced beer. Zesty. Banana yeast. Let this one settle for a minute. Light fruit and spice throughout. Sleepy noticed that this beer tastes a lot like necco waffers. Very good.

Bottle. Pours hazy orangey gold with a lasting tall off-white head. Aroma is an intriguing blend of citrus hops and perhaps the nicest banana/clove/spice combination I have yet to encounter. The flavor is everything that I love about Weizen Bocks; banana, clove, lemon, and lots of spices with a great citrus/herbal hop profile. The mouthfeel is perfectly carbonated and a very dry finish hides every bit of the 8.2%. A wonderful collaboration.

500ml brown bottle from The Lighthouse in Manchester. Pours a murky golden yellow body with a good inch of off-white head. Smells sweet and phenolic - with banana, nut, spice, citrus, and malt all playing big roles. Tastes very complex, sweet, spicy, grassy, malty... Nut, banana, lemon, spices, orange, hints of caramel malt... More hoppy than a lot of examples of the style I’ve tried, but only to balance the flavor out. Other than a slight hop flavor that lingers, the finish is otherwise fairly clean and rather dry. Rich full mouthfeel, yet ample carbonation and no alcohol flavor or warming makes this beer an easier drinker than expected. Wow, this beer is good. Extremely flavorful, complex, balanced and very drinkable. I’ll definitely be snagging a few bottles of this again, not only to compare to the Brooklyner-Schneider version, but also to see how it ages over the next few months (if I can wait that long!)