Sprecher Hefe Weiss

Brewed by Sprecher Brewing Company
Style: German Hefeweizen
Glendale, Wisconsin USA

Rerate, on tap at Sprecher, January 2006.
I used to loathe this beer, but thought it deserved another try, and I was pleasantly surprised that it wasn’t nearly as retched as I remember. Cloudy pale yellow in color with a creamy, milky white head. Aroma is traditional, with bananas and cloves promulgating most. Flavor is a bit reduced, but there are nice elemental lemons, bananas and tiny vanilla currents. All in all, a middle of the road hefe, but nothing to scoff at any longer.

On tap at Sprecher, November 2004.
Nice try, Sprecher, but this hefe misses the mark. Too hoppy and fizzy, with not enough yeast, spice or fruit to be found in the brew. Several times I found myself thinking that this tasted like Miller Lite mixed with a weiss, creating some sort of unnatural cacophony.

On tap at the brewery 11/26/2004 Appearance is a hazy yellow with s small head and some lace. The aroma is of banana and clove. The flavor is refreshing, banana, clove, and a fairly rich body. Overall, not bad.

Bottle pours cloudy pale yellow, small foamy white head, strong carbonation, with spotty lacing.   Yeasty/bready aroma with hints of banana and clove.   Bready flavor, fairly light tho, with some slight clove & over-ripened banana.   Medium body, good mouthfeel.   Finishes clean, crisp, slightly sweet, with light spices.   Probably one of the better American made German Hefeweizens I have had.   Thanks goes out to heemer77 for the trade!

head to head with berghoff faint banana aroma, much brighter yellow than the berghoff, less wheat/malt flavor than berghoff, a little more fruit flavors. Overall a pretty acceptable beer

Hazy orange coloured body with blonde coloured highlights and a small white head. Aroma of corn, curacao, coriander seed and honey. Medium-bodied; Light funky wheat flavour up front with some sugars and a bit of ’normal’ tastes. Aftertaste clean from the other flavours with little else-not a strong showing at all! Overall, nice to try-but overall, a bad offering. Stick to some other beers from this brewery and bypass this one. I sampled this 16 ounce bottle purchased from Premier Gourmet in Buffalo, New York on 10-July-2004 on the Eastern Shore of Virginia.

Pours a slightly cloudy gold with a very small head. Aroma is nice and light with oranges with a hint of cloves. The taste is oranges and a touch of banana. A solid hefeweizen. As good of a wheat beer I have had that was made in the US.

Draft, served at the Berghoff, no less, in Chicago. A good thin hefe head with a nice lace. Body is suitably cloudy, like a lemon peel. Nice spice and lemon notes, or maybe that was the smell of the lemon slice they stuck on it. Still, very clean and refreshing, nothing to jump out and bite you, but an ideal lawnmower beer.

Appearance: hazy orange color, thick, though heavily populated with floating yeasties, with a bubbly white head, a solid collar, that thins out rather quickly. Aroma: banana notes come off quickly out of the nose, available from far-off, but let’s bring it in, for a further sniff...there it is, soft, smooth, creamy, spicy, thick with the banana, lessening some as we go. Good ol’ Bavarian character is in full effect. Taste: nice, neat little hoppiness up front, solid body, very mellow and smooth, high drinkability factor on this one. But a bit too mellow for me...really stand-out weizens make a bigger impression, and this one lies down too easily. Lies down, I say, but doesn’t keel over,exactly. Very nice hefe weizen, all told.