Amicas Hefewiezen

Brewed by Amicas Pizza & Microbrew
Style: German Hefeweizen
Salida, Colorado USA

Tap at the brewery. Thin light head, lovely cloudy, pale yellow colors, pleasant mild spice nose, thin in the mouth, but, with the usual, spice, citrus flavors. A very nice wheat, a style which is often too light.

Appropriate esters, not much head retention, great body, great flavor: some banana, great citurs, and subdued clove. That’s the way I like it. carbo a bit low, but allowed the beer’s sweetness to show through. Overall a great beer. I had three.

as cloudy as a dank morning on the moors, this weizen is the soft yellow of oily grilled onions. i saw enough of the head to say it was white as garlic and in a hurry to get off the beer and vanish. while a headless murky yellow beer brings to mind a ballpark urinal in serious need of a flush, this beer makes up in personality what it lacks in looks. the aroma is a fetching kind of rich melange of banana chips, pencil shavings, citrus, morel mushrooms and raw potatoes-- plus i discern a beckoning note of alcohol. soft, medium-bodied, dangling vivid visions of wine-like peachiness and apples embedded in bulging fresh dough. a grainy sweetness is moderated by balsa-dry yeastiness and accented with clove. i liked it enormously, and was soon saying silly flirtaceous things to it, and making all kinds of promises i couldn’t possibly keep. i think the attraction lies in it’s resemblance to a mild belgian trippel i once had a wild fling with. an outstanding wheat beer.