Arbor Bavarian Bliss Hefeweizen

Brewed by Arbor Brewing Company Pub & Eatery
Style: German Hefeweizen
Ann Arbor, Michigan USA

(Bottle) Pours a yellow color with haze and a small white head. Light bodied and weak. Some spice and light biscuit in the aroma. Taste is pretty similar, with citrus and yeast in there as well. This would be better categorized as an American Wheat.

Lots of sediment stuck to the sides of the bottle. Less head than other Arbor brews. Yeasty, spicy taste. Overall, this is weaker and less complex than I expect from this style.

On tap at Corner Brewery only, no bottle. Nice standard aroma of banana, clove. Good taste and palate. A nice hefe that I would try again.

12oz - Aroma of wet bready malts, alfalfa and sprouts. Organic but not appealing to me at all. Pours cloudy gold with a very small head and good lacing. Flavor has more yeast and lemon zing that lets you know they are trying for a hefe, but the wet musty malt kills it. Palate is sticky. Not so good.

Pours a thick-hazed sandy yellow body with a foamy white head leaving a wet lace. Sour milk in the aroma (which oddly doesn’t offend) along with estery bananas. Flavor finds a defined base of wheat held together with banana glue. A little chalky but full-bodied and mostly fluffy. A good Hefe and one of only a few Arbor brews I’d recommend. Just serve it without the fruit, PLEASE?

<font size=-4>On tap at <a href=http://www.ratebeer.com/Place/michigan/ann-ar Brewing Co., Ann Arbor, MI 48104</font>

Pours an apricot gold with some faint red highlights, white head, fruity orange wheat fragrances, a faint wet wood or cardboard fragrance in the background (is this old or past its prime?), flavors of clove and wheat, bubbly on the palate, has a nice mouth feel, faint taste of pear and apple, citrus bite dry finish with pepper at the end, taste was better then the aroma, the score would have higher if it wasn’t for the off wet cardboard scents.

Pours looking like apple cider. The head was gone before I could taste it. The nose is a mix of spice, wheat, and apple. The taste is a thin blend of apples, sour, bread, and citrus.

Nice fruit and spice induced nose with a sour ending. Weak white head. Pours a very cloudy light orange in color. Lots and lots of suspended gunk. I better let this funk settle down before I proceed. Fruit and spicy taste a Belgian ale. The taste grows on you by the bottom of the glass. P.S. - Just read the carton indicating to pour 2/3 of the beer, then mix the unfiltered stuff in the remainder of the bottle, then add to your glass.