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Brooklyner-Schneider Hopfen-Weisse

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3743.87/5.03.85/5.0Special8.5%96.2Dimpled mug, Stein, Weizen
Commercial Description:
This Beer is served on DRAFT and in 750ml BROOKLYN bottles.
In May 2007, Garrett Oliver traveled to the 400 yr-old Schneider brewery in Kelheim, Germany, to brew Schneider-Brooklyner Hopfen-Weisse. This was dry-hopped with the local Hallertauer Saphir hop variety. In July, Drexler brought his yeast to Brooklyn and brewed Brooklyner-Schneider Hopfen-Weisse, choosing the American Amarillo and Palisade varieties for the dry-hopping. Now you can taste the result, the latest beer in our Brewmaster’s Reserve series. The beer has a full orange color and the aromatics pair the banana and clove notes from the Schneider yeast with the mango and citrus qualities of the hops. The bitterness is robust but balanced, and the beer has a clean, hoppy finish.
Brooklyner-Schneider Hopfen-Weisse pairs well with Caribbean seafood preparations, crab cakes, jerk chicken, Thai cuisine, Szechuan cooking and many Mexican dishes.”
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 thenick (744), North Bellmore, New York, USA
3.5 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/103/56/104/514/20
May 31, 2008  
Bottle. Pours a hazy golden/orange color with a huge white head - this bottle was alive. Aroma is clove, banana, citrus, grain, and a slight display of cinnamon. Taste is roughly the same, though not as strong as the flavor would suggest. Very solid and balanced, but not spectacular.


 Alldaydrinker (558), Norwood, Massachusetts, USA
3.8 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/104/57/104/515/20
May 31, 2008    Updated: Jun 1, 2008
750 ml bottle courtesy of emerica56! Pours a hazy golden color with a small white foamy head. Nose is refreshing, cloves being very dominate with mild tart ness, citrus and bready malts. Initial taste displays heavily from the aroma cloves splashing across the mouth, floral hops, touch of wheat, and citrus. Mid palate displays good parts of the floral hops. Good palate duration. Good head retention. Light to medium body.


 emerica56 (579), Bristol, Rhode Island, USA
3.8 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/104/57/104/516/20
May 31, 2008  
The color is a cloudy orange with a thick foamy and sudsy head. The nose is nice and sweet with bready malt and bitter sweet hops with some hints of lemon grass. Initially the flavor is nice and tart with lemon and clove with the hops finishing it off. I like how you only get the hop bitterness when you have the beer in your mouth, but after it fades away and all you can taste is clove on your palate. It is a nice and refreshing beer made with quality ingredients.


 juiceisloose (670), Windermere, Florida, USA
3.7 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/104/57/104/515/20
May 31, 2008  
This one poured a golden orange color with a medium foamy white head that receded slowly. The aroma is of banana, cloves, cinnamon, and some citrus fruit hops. The flavor follows suit with some spices, bananas, cinnamon, and caramel malt flavors. The flavor isn’t overly sweet, but has a good amount of hops in there. The body is medium-full with a good amount of carbonation that finishes very clean with a hop bitterness left behind. This one is good, but I like the Schneider version a little better. Another solid collaboration from these guys again.


 RCL (1460), Waltham, Massachusetts, USA
3.6 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/103/57/104/514/20
May 30, 2008  
Bottle. Very interesting. Quite a bit of hops to it, but a god balance with the yeastyness. Banana and pine. Kinda weird, but in a good way.


 cmillward (430), Orlando, Florida, USA
4 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
9/104/57/104/516/20
May 30, 2008  
Bottle @ GOBF 08. Pours a semi-hazed golden/deep amber with a craggy white head, laces the glass nicely. Yum, I’m pretty sure the huge aromatic hops here are amarillo (smells much like the Chouffe tripel/IPA), but just huge upfront floral and slight citrus hops on top of a solid banana bread, fruity, sweet malty base, cloves and other spices dance behind the immense hop whiff. Hoppy, well rounded, spicy wheat, citrus, nice bitter end kick. Full-bodied and good carbonation, not too sweet. A great and interesting strong wheat beer. So balanced. I def need to try the Schneider version.


 fishingnet (1045), Brandon, Florida, USA
4.1 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/104/58/104/517/20
May 29, 2008  
Bottle. Pours a hazy amber with a one finger white head that leaves good lacing. Aroma of bananas, wheat, Amarillo hops (YUM), floral hops, yeast, and a hint of clove. Taste is the same as aroma with the clove being a bit more dominant. Medium mouthfeel with a mild to moderate amount of bitterness and well hidden alcohol. This beer is so well balanced and just down right tasty. The Amarillo and Palisade hops were a perfect compliment to the yeast phenols and wheat. A very tasty brew.


 Immy (1912), Virginia Beach, Virginia, USA
4.1 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/104/58/104/517/20
May 29, 2008  
C&C 750. Props for a very classy looking label and bottle. Hazy yellow with a huge white head. Lots of carbonation bubbles. Spicy, sweet banana nose, clove and white pepper, light bubblegum. Beautiful sheet of white lace. Wheaty and hoppy flavors dominate - grass, lemon and grapefruit over wheat, spicy clove and pepper, mild banana. Medium body, satiny and bouncy all at once. Sweet grass, apricot and orange finish. Many of these crossover type experiments don’t work, but this one sure as hell does - well done!



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