Coast Beau Rivage Hefeweizen

Aroma: 6 | Appearance: 7 | Mouthfeel: 5 | Flavor: 8 | Overall: 6

After lunch in Abita Springs LA, I took the scenic route to my hotel room in Pascagoula MS. Stopped into the Beau Rivage Casino in Biloxi (I actually won some money! First time for anything, I guess), and had a few quick pints here right after they opened up at 5pm.

Looked ok enough, though Hefeweizen really shouldn't be so clear -- really ought to call this a Kristalweizen, but I guess that would confuse folks not in-the-know.

But while I was rather taken with the aroma (yeasty and slightly banana/clove-ish) and the flavor profile (slightly sweet, hints of the wheaty malt bill, bitter enough to matter), this beer was not without faults. The mouthfeel of this beer seemed a little too "polished" -- almost syrupy and oily in nature. Rather sythentic-feeling in the backend. I'm not sure if that is due to some weird additive, or it being over-filtered, or what.

Overall, this was a beer that seems to have been almost "over-produced" (to borrow a music business expression). Leave the yeast in, and watch this beer's popularity sky-rocket, as the Summer gets hotter and hotter, and more and more humid, along the Gulf Coast. But as-is, it's a little too weird for me....
//TB