Weihenstephaner Hefeweissbier

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

500ml bottle into weizen glass. Classic Hefe aroma, like a sweet spice cake. Cloudy pale yellow beer with enormous white head. A few tiny bubbles arise. Flat light body with slight zingy banana finish. A touch of cloves and a little metal/sourness right at the end. Certainly easy drinking but a bit insipid.

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

500ml bottle at BBQ restaurant in Pahrump
Appearance: Cloudy yellow with a big fluffy white head and some lacing
Aroma: Banana, coriander and wheat
Taste: Banana esters, spices, wheat, honey and lemon
Nice

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

12 oz brown bottle from Vintage Estates, thanks to Nuts. Pop the lid and you get an interesting aroma like no other. Spicy wheaty perhaps coriander, I’m not sure. Whatever it is, the aroma is volatile! Pour is that typical wheat color, orangish with those swirling precipitants in there, very nice show. There is some gunk on the bottom of the bottle. Very good initial flavor, I like it. The carbonation is medium high, enjoyable for a brew like this. The taste of this is good and wheaty but there are plenty of spices in there, it is not your run of the mill hefe. Comes across almost like a wit bier. There is a building medium bitterness that gathers on the back of the throat as this drink is depleted. Better than Penn Weizen. Almost as good as other cleaner Deutch hefes that I have tasted such as erdinger or Michelob barvarian wheat.

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

Bottle at home, done from memory, rating is just for my own. I will edit if I drink it again, great weizen, but it’s not super special.

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

50cl bottle from Munich Airport. Pours hazy golden to orange, with a large, lasting white head. Fruity, wheaty and yeasty aroma with moderate banana and notes of clove and citrus. Moderate sweet with pleasant banana flavour and a slightly dry finish with some acidity and bitterness. Medium body with fairly average carbonation. Smooth, tasty and refreshing. Delicious!

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

Pours hazy gold with nice bright white head. The aroma first hits with a big bubble gum note. Upon deeper investigation the bubble gum was still there but just beneath were notes of wheat, mild banana, yeasty spices and some fruity esters in the background. Wow, tasty hefe. It starts with bubble gum, banana and wheat. Soon those notes are joined by mild tart acidity, floral and spice hop bitterness. As the finish approaches the classic bubble gum and banana overwhelm the other notes.

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

Bottle: Poured a murky orange yellow with thick creamy white head. Sweet metallic and yeasty aroma. Bitter yeast malt flavor.

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

Notes from St. line Wheat beer tasting 7/30/04. Hazy gold/white hued brew. white head. Fruity, malty nose with good hints of spices. Medium/light body, silky mouthfeel, lingering. Good bananna, spice flavors, lightly citrusy, good mallt backing. A true classic! Yummy.

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

Typical Hefe nose with the esters is just a little bit more on the mild side. More clove and spice than banana which I think I'm going to like. I didn't have a proper hefe glass but the poor has the head that won't expects frothy and white the lovely clear gold body tending towards the Amber side. Mouth is foamy medium to light bodied proper tingle. Flavor is following the nose. Light on the banana somewhat heavy on the clove hints of cardamom wheat malt is there but barely. Reminds me an awful lot of what I drink in the pubs in Switzerland. So I'm probably going to kick it up a little for sentimentality sake.

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

C: pale yellow, slight haze, frothy head
A: wheat, banana, bubble gun, spices
P: slippery
F: wheat, light citrus,slight sweet finish
O: The oldest brewery in the world knows how it is done