Summit Hefe Weizen

Formerly brewed at Summit Brewing Company
Style: German Hefeweizen
St. Paul, Minnesota USA

Serve in Weizen

on tap at mccormick & schmick’s chicago. cloudy yeloow color, tall fluffy white head. classic banana and clove aroma and tangy wheat malt. flavor is the same, medium profile. clove, banana, and light tangy wheat malt. faint bit of yeastiness.

bottle - Pours slightly hazy yellow with a thin head. It has a light yeast aroma with a touch of citrus. The flavor and mouthfeel is pretty light as I’d expect for the style. There’s yeast, wheat, mild hops, and some very light citrus flavor. This one is a pretty mediocre hefeweizen.

Picked up single bottle at Formost Liquors in Chicago. Pours a clear golden pale honey yellow brew with a fast dissolving head to a fine film. Aroma of yeast, banana ester, lemon and a touch of cloves. Taste is medium/llight body, some carbonation, more citrus in taste than in aroma, with a smooth hoppy finish. Not your typical hazy colored Hefeweisen brew, but has the taste and character as one.

Bottle (12oz). Bubbly slightly pale gold with a small fizzy white head. Thick yeasty aroma of bready malt, lots of apricot, not so much banana - some peach, with floral hops. Taste is a little bland and disappointing, less fruit and body, a bit of sharp stale spice - very thin, weakly carbonated, slightly sharp mouthfeel. Loved the aroma though.

UPDATED: JUL 20, 2007 Cloudy pale orange with undistinguished head / Sour malt and banana nose / Light body / Mild flavors of banana, bubble gum, orange, and clove / Crisp lemon finish.

Pours a hazy straw-gold color with about an inch of white head. Nice and murky like a hefe should be. Decent lacing for the whole glass. I get a little bit of banana in the aroma, and a little bit of yeast. Typical wheat beer flavor (which is good - I’ve had some nasty ones). Bread dough, yeast, banana, and clove - but all very subtle. A little too subtle for me. Light body - again too light for me - and minimally carbonated. No citrus. I would have liked more body and less subtlety.

(Tap) Pours a hazy golden color with a small amount of head. Seems a bit muted in style compared to other hefeweizen beers. Refreshing, and smooth, yet somewhat lacking in the fruity/spicy charactor typical of the style. Not bad, but could have been a bit better...

Pours a traditional cloudy brown mug from a 12 oz bottle; very little remarkable about the pour with a very weak head. Flavor is somewhat sweet with a wheaty flavor. A good summer drink, and a overall quality hefe, but nothing to write home about