Weihenstephaner Vitus

Brewed by Bayerische Staatsbrauerei Weihenstephan
Style: Weizen Bock
Freising, Oberbayern, Germany

Draught at Bishop’s Arms SoFo, Stockholm. Cloudy dark yellow, small head. Strong banana aroma with a touch of toffee. Sweet and malty, fruity and near full bodied with some caramel and lots of banana esters. Alcohol is there, but acts in the background. Low bitterness. A warming, fruity beer, feels just as a ramped up hefeweizen.

Pours a cloudy dark yellow color. Medium to large fizzy white head that quickly shrinks to a small cap. Nose is rubber, sour, and yeast. mouth feel is medium bodied and the finish is fizzy and a bit acidic. Taste is raquetballs, wheat, malt, lemon?, and some citrus. A great weizenbock in my opinion from a really great company.

1 pint 0.9oz bottle: Pours a cloudy golden with a slight orange hue and a nice large head that lingers. Aroma has got the definite wiezen characteristics. A nice orange and lemon citrus spritz, banana, wheat overtones, spiced similar to a hefe. Taste is nicely robust and mouth filling. I was basically expecting a Hefe but this is nicely complex. A nice bite of citrus and wheat really make this a really luscious brew. Overall, Man this stuff is a good wiezen I really like this!

Bottle (500ml). Cloudy yellow-amber with a huge fluffy-fizzy white lasting head. Wow that smells great - lemony and sweet malt, like a dry hefe-weizen with woody overtones, bubblegum and light floral hops. The taste follows, like a banana-grassy hefe with hints of peat and iodine, quite tasty and slightly bitter in the finish. Juicy, slick mouthfeel, quite fruity and lively, slightly medicinal aftertaste- like everything from this brewery, really classy and well-founded.

Excellent!!. a perfect example of what a Hefe should taste like, bubble gum and banana flavors. decent malts, low hops but everything else works very well. a must have.

The aroma is like a wheat beer! It has bananas, bubble gum, incense, and wheat. The appearance is hazy gold with a nice head. The flavor is like the aroma. The palate is what it should be. Overall it’s nice!

A very good heller Weizenbock. It’s fruite with a very nice banana flavor. A Good golden, yellow collar. It’s well balanced, with not much alcohol (7,7%). I think it’s as best to drink on a nice sunny day.

I’ve tried this, and I’ve tried Aventinus...I prefer the latter. This beer looked okay, nice head, but the color wasn’t quite as dark as I though it would be for its style. The beer was little too bitter for its style, and my taste. An okay beer, but there are better.