Penn Weizen

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

Pours a yellow gold and yields a off-white head that dissipates after a minute or so to a faint dusting and thin foam ring. The aromas of wheat, bananas, and cloves are all there. The taste starts out with flavors of wheat, yeast, and cloves with just a little lemon zest. Upon swallowing, the clove and banana flavors come out more. Medium bodied with great carbonation, this beer. Also part of the sampler pack and was the best of the bunch. So far love every beer I have tried from Penn brewery.

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

A beer of the month club entry for March/April 2011. Pours rather cloudy light yellow with a bright white head of moderate duration. Pleasant but not expressive floral flavors. Goes well with a meal as it does not over power the dining experience.

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

Interesting pour, the beer is cloudier than most hefe's. A murky yellow-orange color with a moderately thin white head and bubbly lacing. Bountiful aroma with lots of yeast character giving off scents of spicy clove, lemon, and banana. Solid malt body that is filling, but still on the thin side. Crisp with a watery finish, drinkable to say the least. Flavor is fairly true to the authentic German offerings. Plenty of banana and clove esters. Dry, crisp wheat to couple the heavy yeast flavor. A nice, rich taste all in all.

Aroma: 7 | Appearance: 5 | Mouthfeel: 4 | Flavor: 5 | Overall: 5

I was not impressed. No Aroma at all, no clove or banana or anything. I did love the hazy light orange cloudy color. The body on this was not good it stung when it hit your mouth. Flavor was lacking up-front and sour on the back.

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

From a bottle. Pours a hazy dirty yellow with a white head. Aroma of bananas and cloves. Flavor somewhat sour, but has typical hefe flavor. Nothing great, but decent. I'm not a fan of the style, but this one isn't horrific.

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

From the bottle it pours a gold so cloudy it's opaque. Sweet orange and wheat aroma with spice, hints of apple & yeast. There are spice and apple in the flavor too, which is nicely bitter and a bit drier than expected. Heavy body. Really quite good.

Aroma: 4 | Appearance: 4 | Mouthfeel: 3 | Flavor: 3 | Overall: 4

Label this a berliner weisse, and I'm approaching the rating differently, but as a self-advertised hefe, this thing is just putrid, so putrid, I can't even thank doulos for passing it along. The pour was golden-yellow-orange with a decent head (not nearly as rich as a real hefe) and lots of lemon chunky looking sedimentation. Aroma was clovey, not much banana, and lots of lemon citrus. The flavor was lemon citrus, American wheaty funny/funky, and did I mention tart and lactic lemon? Tart and acidic mouthfeel, nasty aftertaste. This thing probably got a bad bottling and pick up some wild bacteria for the bottle conditioning. A terrible hefe.

Aroma: 4 | Appearance: 4 | Mouthfeel: 5 | Flavor: 3 | Overall: 4

Egads, reading the other reviews, what is wrong with my beer? Beer poured CRYSTAL CLEAR golden yellow with no head even with a vigorous pour. Aroma was floral and citusy. The flavor was overwhelmingly lemony. I was taken aback it was so lemony. Mouthfeel was syrupy but not thick (if that makes sense), but that just made the lemon cling more to my tongue, which was not desirable. Some bananas and other spices in there, but lost amongst the lemons. Little wheaty taste. This was honestly deity-awful. I was looking forward to trying this for a while, too. Hopefully, I can pawn my other bottle off on someone, cuz there is no way I'm drinking it. Hopefully the dark lager and pilsners are better (got two bottles of each of them, too...yikes!).

Aroma: 8 | Appearance: 8 | Mouthfeel: 7 | Flavor: 10 | Overall: 8

Brewtopia’04. Cloudy, almost opaque, golden. Lots of lace. Bananas, bananas, bananas. This is a nice attempt at a German style hefe; i’m tired of American hefers, anyway. The rep was less than amiable, but the beer saved the day. Fruity banana and a sharp clove bite like a spiced gumdrop. Rather thick in texture as it should be, a place where many non-German German hefeweizens seem to fall short.

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

Light yellow gold color, slightly cloudy. Medium sized white foamy head. Aroma is clove, must and spice. A medium bodied hefe. Malts are fruity and sweet. Touches of banana and clove flavors. Light and refreshing. Very slightly sweet. Hints of lemon in the finish. Mouthfeel is full and round. Finish is clean and crisp. Aftertaste is slightly sweet.