Barrel House Hocking Hills Hefeweizen

Brewed by Barrel House Brewing Company
Style: German Hefeweizen
Cincinnati, Ohio USA

Hazy deep gold pour with aroma of citrus, florals, coriander, hops. Tastes citric, with some floral and spicy notes, some apricotty fruit, and some banana. Stays tart and citric through the finish.

22 oz bottle pours a shimmering goldenrod body topped by a fluffy white head. Nice patchy lacing. Aroma of spicy pepper, lemon, unripe banana, and clove. Crisp and lively in the mouth. Some notes of malted wheat and yeast join the lemon and banana in the taste, accented by clove and white pepper. A very well done hefe.

Thanks Jason. The beer pours to a cloudy straw colored body with a thin white head. The aroma comes off as Sunny-D orange drink combined with light bananas and cloves. Acidic. The flavor is, like Jason says, Tropicana pineapple-orange-banana. It’s kind of tart too. Moderate body that is well carbonated. Unique, drinkable, but is it beer?

Bottle shared by Jason. Cloudy orange body, not much head. Big aroma - tart orange juice tempered by sweet banana and clove. Smells good! Super dry and light mouthfeel. The flavor retains the orange tartness with some light clove and brown sugar in the finish. If you forget the fact that this is a Hefe then it’s tasty stuff. Tart, refreshing with a short finish. This would be great on a hot day.

Cloudy dull gold body, white creamy head. Estery-orange-soured wheat aroma. Sort of interesting, but odd. Its like an orange sherbert sourness that gets in the way. Footbalm gets banana extract, I get pineapple/pear/orange juiciness. Odd.

Bottle from WBC. Pours a hazy apricot color and the first thing that hit me was the smell of bubble gum, then I realized it was more like Banana extract. Very sweet, in fact too sweet. Also has some nice clove note. Really would be great but that darn banana was over powering. This was very confused as there was no real distinct taste.

Pours hazy golden with a fully receding off white head. Aroma of banana, clove, and sweet malty wheat. Taste is yeasty and citric with notes of clove. Mouthfeel is medium bodied with moderate, lively carbonation.

22 ounce bottle from Steve’s on Mineral Point Road, Madison WI (December 2006), served a bit below cellar temperature from a Ramstein weizen glass. A light, translucent/only faintly cloudy amber-gold with a decent puffy white head that is disappointingly weak and quick-dying, leaving no lace -- even the average German hefe looks better than the best American examples, it seems.....very very faint estery nose, hints of sauteed bananas in rum, a bit of vanilla, the barest touch of spicing....the body is fairly sweet, honeyish and syrupy at first, drying and thinning out rather quickly; there’s a bit of bready malt, some interesting raisiny character, but on the whole this is watery and kinda dull....low to moderate carbonation, a bit cottony in the mouthfeel at the finish. I ought to stop drinking these American hefes, I’m rarely satisfied and this is no exception. Totally beautiful label on the bottle, and I love the name, having family in that area of the state. Doesn’t make the beer better, alas.