Breckenridge Hefe Proper Ale

Hazy blonde coloured body with a small white head. Aroma of light citrus, coriander seed and some wheat. Light-bodied; Nice tart lemon flavour with some orange and light hop flavours running strong. Aftertaste mellow and proper-good finish. Overall, a nice hefeweizen, good to try! Thanks Andy for giving me this bottle. I sampled this twelve ounce bottle pulled from a Breckenridge Sampler Pack on 28-May-2005 on the Eastern Shore of Virginia.

Draft at the brewpub in October 2007. An unclear dark golden beer with a lazing off-white head. The aroma is sweet wheaty with a light citrusy note mingling. The flavor is sweet wheaty again combined with a light citrusy note, leading to a dry finish.

Breckenridge Brewery bills this beer as some kind of minimalist wonder, like they’ve done the drinker an enormous favor by cutting out all the jazz of complex and intricate brewing. I can see why this might be appealing, but the marketing is all wrong. Trendy consumers don’t like to have their edibles tinkered with when it involves chemicals, toxins, industrial pollutants, that sort of thing. Nobody ever said intense brewing was a victim of any of those, but because of this curious stance by Breckenridge I feel that not only has the marketing gone awry (or the guiding ethic) but also the beer’s flavor. A deep blone color with a wide plate of carbon columns topped with a fuzzy gray head, the aroma gives off notes of honey, wheat, peanuts and yeast. The taste is exceptionally weak, but what little of it there is remains balanced, bolstered by a fuzzy and commanding carbonation. The flavor begins sweet, with a graceful touch of apple and melon, as well as a nicely tuned frame of wheat flavors, but the aftertaste is a dour and sullen, somehow leeching all the flavor away. The beer in general tastes mostly like wet paper, with the flavors above mentioned more as afterthoughts then active flavors on the palate. The aftertaste is merely the logical conclusion - purely and simply wet paper, slightly worse than tasteless and most unappealing. I’d rather Breckenridge Brewery go back to the "distractions of extravagant brewing techniques and exotic ingredients."

Pours a golden yellow with plenty of carbonation but basically no head and lacing. Smell was not really existent but sweet smells of malt and wheat. Touch of yeasty notes as well . The taste is sweet. Really sweet, and sour. More of a citrus flavor with strong lemony notes. No real spice flavor are noticeable but there are lines of wheat and white pepper. I would think this is more of a wheat beer then a hefeweisen. The yeast creates a light texture and the small malt brings a light body. Also with the citrus zing, it’s a little difficult to drink.

Bottle. Lotta balls using invoking the name Hefeweizen with this one. Aroma lemony and yeasty with light wheat, a little too chalky and grainy. Cloudy golden pour with a soapy off-beige head. Grainy dry taste, touch of sour wheat and an earthy vegetal taste. Tastes a lot like a Low Alcohol. Really dropped the ball - nasty stuff!

Draft @ the Breckenridge brewpub: Poured a very hazy brown-yellow color with a small white head. The aroma had a light wheaty citrus smell. The flavor matched the aroma but also had a hint of bubblegum on the finish. Semi-dry.

Name: Proper American Wheat
Date: 10/10/2007
Mode: Draft
Source: Brewpub

opaque light orange, creamy white head, lots of lace, light sweet aroma, light sweet flavor, touch of fruity charcter, light bitterness, light wheat in the bitterness,

Aroma: 6/10; Appearance: 7/10; Flavor: 6/10; Palate: 7/10; Overall: 11/20
Rating: 3.1/5.0
Drinkability: 7/10
Score: *4

In the brewpub they called it "Proper Wheat" probably got complaints because it is not a hefeweizen. Pours hazy. Aroma is citrus because they put a lemon in it. I pulled it out but the aroma is still in the glass. Flavor is acidic. Not impressive but not bad either.