Brooklyner-Schneider Hopfen-Weisse

Brewed by Brooklyn Brewery
Style: Weizen Bock
Brooklyn, New York USA

750ml corked bottle. Pours a translucent pale golden yellow with an enormous white head. The head lasts throughout the entire experience.The aroma has some intense bouquets of orange rinds with some sweet notes of caramel and fruits. There are a lot of grassy notes and spices as well. The initial flavour is a blast of spices, grass, and hops. As the brew passes, a multitude of flavour assaults your palate. A balance of sweet rolls, caramel, hops, lemon, banana, orange, orange rind, spices, and grass all mingle together extremely well. It’s pretty sweet, but the hops give it a nice balance so it’s not too sweet. The banana, caramel, and sweet roll flavours give it a nice roundness while the hops, lemon, orange, and orange rind give it some good sharpness. And the spices add a little more complexity. The finish is lightly bitter but is, overall, smooth and a little sweet. For a wheat beer, this is huge and complex.

In short: A fruity, sweet and hoppy wheat beer. Hugely drinkable.
How: Bottle 750ml, consumed fresh a few days after purchase (side by side with sister Schneider & Brooklyner Hopfen-Weisse)
The look: Cloudy dark yellow body topped by a medium off-white head
In long: Copy-and-paste of Schneider & Brooklyner Hopfen-Weisse description that I had side by side. About all of it applies to Brooklyner-Schneider Hopfen-Weisse too. Nose of lemon pie and toasted wheat. Taste has a lot of hay, flavours of crusty pie, banana cake and lemon. A little sugary. Strong spicy hops presence, with dry bitterness and white pepper sensation. Some dry herbs. Nice acidic touch in the finish. Little to no alcohol presence. Body is a little fluffy. Carbonation is very aggressive/tickling and it suits the beer just fine. Feeling of a sweetened Berliner Weisse on steroids. Compared to Schneider & Brooklyner Hopfen-Weisse: a stronger hop bite hides the residual sugar in the finish better. A bit more wheaty and a touch of alfalfa sprouts. Overall a little dryer than its German sister and a tiny bit more enjoyable. Great beer. Nice german influence at work here. That cooperation with Brooklyn Brewery is a good example of Germany pushing forward their ideas on other countries, and it’s a much better approach than the one they took in the late 30’s early 40’s.

cloudy pale yellow. aroma of some tropical fruit like its twin but mingled with floral hops. taste follows suit -- short, dry fruitiness is followed with an IPA level dose of bitterness. the bitterness is also ultra dry, no weizen mouthfeel here. slight yeast in nose is lost in the avalanche of hops on the tongue. first tripel IPAs....now a weizen IPA? this is a good, big beer. far from one dimensional but not nearly as complex as its twin, which i also thought was a much better representation (and interpretation) of a weizen bock. alcohol lingers, burning on the throat, pleasantly. somehow bitterness of this magnitude is more tolerable with the mouthfeel and other characteristics of an IIPA, it grows tiresome as this bottle goes on. however, in the same time span the beer breathes and fruits become more apparent and enjoyable, leading to an eventual balance with the hops. a very thought provoking brew.

On draft at Max’s. A classic!. Candy like yeast and hops with a balanced malt makes this a neat weizen bock. The dry hopping leads to the perfect crsip ending. Sweetness thoughout. Alcohol is all but hidden ... until afterwards. Have someone else drive home.

Bottle from Total Wine. Pours a murky yellow color and a huge 2 inch off-white head that holds firm. Creamy wheat, subtle citrus, and subtle herbal zest in the nose. Flavors are very bitter with astringent alcohol, banana, clove, subtle pepper, and more wheat. Smells better than it tastes. Medium carbonation and medium body. I am a fan of the style, but I could do without this particular beer.

Bottle shared by theisti; a cool bottle; it is shaped like a jumbo version of a New Belgium 12 ouncer. Pours a deep, hazy, pineapple juice goldwith a fluffy white head. The nose is of bright, fresh Amarillo hops with a touch of candy sugar and faint wheat. Light-bodied and wheaty with a moderately bitter finish. A sweet wheaty body backed by a solid, green, Amarillo hop-fix finish. I prefer the Schneider version of this brew a bit more, but this is a solid, tasty beer. If you like hoppy wheats, you should find yourself a bottle. Thanks again for sharing this with me, Tim.

750ml corked and caged bottle. Amber pour with a huge head, Aroma has lots and lots of hops mixed with lots and lots of wheat, and a good amount of alcohol. Flavour has lots of banana esters, and more hope,but the alcohol is again quite prominent.

Got a bottle of this courtesy of my brother. Poured a cloudy orange color with extremely fluffy white head that hangs around forever. Aroma is dominated by the hops and is very inviting. Flavor is initially spicey with hints of banana (my brother picked up on the bubblegum but I didnt) and finishes with a perfect hop balance. Mouthfeel is great. This is extremely drinkable and I would recommend trying if you get a chance.