Summit Hefe Weizen

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

Serve in Weizen

12 oz bottle. Pours a moderately hazy glowing golden orange with a small fluffy white head. Aroma is heavy banana, some clove and bubble gum. The wheat and slight graininess is present. Flavor starts with mostly bubble gum and banana, very sweet, a bit sugary and candyish. The wheat really picks up halfway through although the beer does stay pretty sweet throughout. A small spiciness in the finish. Medium body and a soft but prickly carbonation. I see there have been many bad ratings. Perhaps I got some fresh bottles but I thought it was a decent hefeweizen.

Orange cream and hazy straw fills my glass under a huge head. Hefeweizens are supposed to pour with a massive head which is why one often finds them being poured in glasses that are much larger than the bottle itself. This allows the brew to be poured in one full sweep while allowing the head to rise to the highest heights without overflowing. It truly is a beauty to observe. Zipping my way is a proper nose of banana bread, banana pudding, and doughy white bread; a little under-baked maybe. Clove permeates while lemon zest and lemon cream brightens her presence. The first quaff is full, chewy, and rich with banana bread fresh from the oven, steam rising from her golden-brown top which exudes clove esters. There is a bitter lemon rind finish which cleanses my palate in time for more bready banana delights and clove spice. Green banana flickers here and there, but not enough to detract from her overall enjoyment. A constant presence in the front of each quaff is lemon zest and a general citric brightness, but again, never enough to detract from her banana bread clovey delights which immediately pick up from where she leaves off. This is a German-style Hefeweizen, after all. As is the case with pretty much all Hefeweizens when I get my lips wrapped around them, they don’t last long.

Bottle poured a cloudy golden amber with a lasting off white head. Aromas of wheat, citrus, light spice and light yeast. Palate was medium bodied and crisp with a dry finish. Flavors of wheat, citrus, straw and yeast with a crisp dry finish.

Had from the bottle before the Darius Rucker/Brad Paisley concert in Tinly Park, IL. Cloudy pale orange in color. Taste is of banana, citrus and clove. Decent Hefe, easy finish.

This beer was so so. It was nothing special ansd certainly nothing like it’s German counterparts. It is a good smmer beer that is more like a traditional American beer, rather than a German beer. If it is cheap, buy it. If you have something else in mind, get the something else.

Wheat, fresh fruits, banana, and clove. Flavors are similar especially banana and wheat. Spiced and fizzy mouthfeel. Decent carbonation. Good quencher on a hot day.... like today.

12 oz bottle from the Four Firkins. Dark yellow/orangish pour, cloudy with lots of head. Very nice lacing. Standard hefe aroma - wheat, yeast and spice. Flavor is much more subtle than the aroma. Not much yeast but more citrusy with a hint of spice. Tangy finish. Nice, easy drinking beer.

Poured from bottle. Pronounced banana, clove, and a touch of band-aid on the nose. Pours a light yellow with minimal head. Typical hefe profile on the tongue, save that once again we’ve got a band-aid/latex thing going on. It’s all right, but it’s nowhere near German quality.