Tröegs Scratch 7

Bottle. Body-looks like hazy muddy tea with a thin foamy bubble ring. Kind of looks like diarrhea. Nose-apple, flat hops, unfiltered apple cider, boozy. Taste-dusty, vegetal, lots of spice, some light phenols, lightly hops, sawdust, fruity, unusual, but it grows on you in a weird kind of way.

#7-2008. 12oz bottle. Big banana, some raisin aroma. Lots of yeast in the pour. flavor is lots of wheat. Very nice.

Bottle sampled. Pours cloudy amber/brown with a good size beige head. Aroma of bananas, spices, and cloves. The flavor is sweet, cloves, brown sugar, bananas, all-spices, and caramel. Good body, nicely done..

4-8-08 bottle shared with lb4lb thanks to hopdog
Thick brown amber with ivory beige head with thick rings of sticky lacing. Smell is light sweet sourdough and pralines. Flavor is mild and has a hint of smoky sweet yeast in there. A good balance actually. Very drinkable. Smell and aftertaste aren’t ideal - but flavor and mouthfeel are nice. Its a toss up and I enjoyed it!

Pours a cloudy dark sienna color with a dissipating, off-white head. Minimal spotty lacing noted. The aroma shows dark fruity notes, including fig and raison, accompanied by the requisite overly ripe banana scents. Caramel shows strong in the malt base, with a sweet, bready yeast, cloves and some peppery spice. The flavor is sweet and malty up front, with caramel and fermented dark fruit showing strong. Flavors transition into browned bananas and heavy clove spice. Sweet yeast is present throughout. What this brew lacks, in my opinion, the fullness that the wheat adds to the better examples of this style. The mouthfeel here is syrupy, with the alcohol quite detectable. Additional wheat would really help out the body, with more hop character serving to balance out the intense sweetness. Overall, this is a fairly enjoyable brew, but it is just too sweet and lacking in the component that really makes a Weizenbock sing for me....the wheat.