Weihenstephaner Hefe Weissbier

Rated:18.12.2008
Bottle brown 500 ml
Very deep, intensive and lively colour as for a HefeWeizen denoting a good brew. Aroma is fully expressed and pronounced. Carbonation is strong and intensive, there is a great ammount of vivid bubbles forming dense rocky snowy white head. Flavour has all you expect from one of the best weizen. It is just typicall and proper, very grainy, wheaty and barley flavoured too. There is no extra strange flavour typical for some odd Hefeweizens. Only those recognized and some banana. Its not that yeasty as Paulaner, not clementine like as Erdinger but just proper and on a very high level.

poured from a 500mL bottle into a tall tulip weiss glass (consumed: 2/14/08) A: Pours a gorgeous hazy, tawny, gold, with a huge rocky white head, which in turn seems to last forever & a day. I think I could take a nap on this beer’s head. Throughout the beer, it leaves behind huge chunks of lacing that remind me of the Archipelegos. S: Yeast is right there in your face, lots of cloves, bubblegum and a slight tart lemony scent are all present too. Some nice fresh-baked bread brings it all together, this is an amazing smelling beer. T/M: Sweetness hits the tip of the tongue immediately, but not cloyingly so. Followed by a very creamy, almost buttery body and some nice citric bite. Loads of bready malt & cereal grain flavors combine with the tanginess of the wheat and lead to a enjoyably astringent finish. A delicious beer that often winds up being gulped and not sipped. D: One of the all-time greats, probably THE wheat beer that all others are measured against. One of the most drinkable beers around.

I’m not a great fan of hefeweizen, but his beer truly surprised me! Notes of banana and spice made this a delight for the palate. Definitely not a one dimensional beer as has been my experience with so many other hefeweizens.

500. Pours a gorgeous cloudy medium buttery amber with a towering fluffy platinum blonde head. Intermittent starry lacing persists, along with a little dab of head. Mild banana nose. Medium body with soft carb. You can pick up cloves in there...mostly because you know they’re appropriate to the style. The flavor here is pretty battered from all its time in transit and the rigors of the journey.

A very bavarian and bananian taste indeed. However, one of the finest weissbiers that I have had a privilege to taste. Pours hazy and golden with a huge foamy head. Taste is malty, sweet, aromatic and citrusy. Hail to the Germans.

cloudy orange yellow pour flavors of bananas and yeast with a slight after taste of spices but over all very tasty nice beer

Hello bananas! Huge banana aroma when you open the bottle. Smells the most like actual bananas that I’ve come across. Lots of dusty yeast in the aroma too. Not very hazy pour, kinda like a golden pilsner with a giant creamy froth white head. Definite sour grassiness with fruity, dried banana, and yeast notes. Find it really similar to the Paulaner hefe. Sweet and sour banana & spice aftertaste. Filling body, despite the lively carbonation it feels a little flat and disconnected. There are many smoother hefe’s out there. Definitely not the end-all be-all of hefe’s.

coriander, cloves on nosing. thick head with good lacing, on 2nd pass bananna comes through. coriander/clove/ a little gum. very clean from start to finish with long clean wheat finish. damn good!!