Great Divide Dunkel Weiss

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

Pours a warm and inviting clear brown tinged with golden red, almost mahogany, with a fairly decent light tan head. Aroma is strong, yeasty and wheaty with a hint of citrus. Pleasing flavor is mainly wheaty with hints of fruit - mainly pear and apple plus a subtle note of orange - and wood. There is also just a whisper of cloves. Texture has average body but plenty of fizz, leaving a persistent tingle and a fruity, wheaty finish.

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

Bottle from SL. Poured the usual murky brown color, but really with a totally lame head that enabled almost the entire 22oz being poured into one of my 16.9oz hefe glasses. A real shame, I like that pillowy huge rocky head, so where did it go? The aroma was caramel, some bananas, bready. The flavor followed, but the caramel flavors were a bit sloppy, the cloves were lacking to give this some dry bite, overly caramel malted period. An ok brew, but not one I was excited about, inferior flavor to its peers, and really off the mark on appearance.

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

a little underrated perhaps. this was solid, if just short of spectacular, in every single aspect. nice mahaginy color with big khaki head. smooth feel. aroma and flavoe of banana, malts, a touch of hops, and a touch of spice. super drinkable. great fall beer!

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

I had to have this one brought in from out of state. Not bad, but nothing great to write about it. It's a little sweeter than others I've tried and far too sweet for my taste. Pours dark brown, as one would expect. Lacing is present, but spotty at best.

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

22 oz bottle. Pours a reddish amber with a medium off white head that quickly diminishes to a thin film that leaves a little lacing.

The aroma is sweet bready malts, bananas and cloves.

The flavor is sweet sugary dark fruits, molasses and some fruitcake spices. The mouthfeel is medium to full bodied with smooth carbonation.

Overall, not my favorite style and this one is too far on the sweet side for me.

Aroma: 9 | Appearance: 8 | Mouthfeel: 6 | Flavor: 7 | Overall: 7

Bottle from Knightly. Bottled 4/17/09. I like how Great Divide prints this and makes it easy to find. Plenty of brewers provide a date but often finding the best by date can be like an Easter egg hunt. This pours a brown color with some deep amber and a thick khacki head. Scattered lacing. Aroma is wheaty, yeasty, banana, lemon. Nice. Flavors show banana, cloves, vanilla, a roasty note and some spice towards the finish. My only complaint is that this is a little too sweet and sticky. Not cloying or anything but it does throw this off a tad and is mildy distracting. I spent the entire day in the hot sun, and despite it being too sweet this was nice and refreshing and a good beer to end the day. However, not sure it gets a revisit as it’s too expensive for what it is