Brooklyner-Schneider Hopfen-Weisse

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

For my 200th rating, we return to the old country. 16.9oz bottle. Pours a hazy dark orange with a good white head. Aroma is very fresh and lively, with citrus, hops, spices, breadiness, caramel, and floral notes. Taste is creamy and full, with a sharp but not overwhelming initial flavor of crisp fruit and hoppy citrus gently giving way to a big and flavorful finish of spices, grain, floral notes, and grass. Schneider rocks.

Draught at OT. Small head for a weisse. Golden amber color with lots of clowdyness. Loads of banana and some american hops and korriander. Plesant wheat taste with a big hop taste and robust bitterness. After warming up the caramell is much more pronounced.

Pours opaque golden orange with fluffy white head. Aroma of very floral, perfumy hops and sweet citrus, banana and ripe fruits. Just slightly herby. Very light, but full mouthfeel with fluffy carbonation. Sweet citrus flavor to start at the tip of the tongue, grassy hop bitterness and fresh floral hop flavors come out on the middle of the tongue. Light, airy malt base. Finishes with crisp hops grassy and bite, and warming alcohol pepperiness. Alcohol is very present, but not at all obnoxious or overpowering.

Thistle, pineapple, and pine bouquet. Caramel undertones. Cloudy golden, massive light yellow head, good lacing. Vinous lemon cream pie with pineapple and clove flavor. Pine and clove finish. Much hoppier and less hefe than the Schneider version.

Draught at Haket
In June, 2009
Hazy orange color, white head. Nice, fruity, apricots scent. Fruity tasty, malty taste. Medium mouthfeel, medium high bitterness.

Bottle at home ... Real glad to see this one in Cornelius all be it at £12.50... amber ... sweet pine fruit nose little yeast ... big in face flavour ... some candi suger ... big pine hop ... refreshing ... citrus ... orange ... peach ... light lemon...cuts through the curry nicly ...3.9

ok on to side by side with its Brother ... more orangy amber ... nose is brighter and more hoppy yeast and pine hop is much more noticible ... sharper edge bit more bitter ... but seems a bit shalower... lots of pine present...although it doesnt seem to have the depth of its brother it just seems to have a bit more kick... 3.8

On tap @ Moon & Sixpence (Portland, OR) - A very cloudy light orange with a thin white head. Bright lemon and yeast nose. The flavor is initially green apple, and citrus hop followed by a yeasty sweetness. Unusual beer but very refreshing, I would definitely drink this again especially on a nice hot day.

Bottle. Very nice to share this with my friend Matthew for his birthday! This beer is really beautiful. A hazy golden orange colour, the bottle fills two weizen glasses wonderfully with a huge, thick fluffy white head like yeasty bread dough on each. The aroma is fantastically complex and interesting. There’s some very fresh citrus, especially orange, banana, clove, plenty of yeastiness and a whole lot of fresh leafy hop aroma, juicy and equally citrusy. The mouthfeel is thick, unfiltered and medium to full, very drinkable with good carbonation for a warm day out in the backyard. The flavour is wonderful; there’s plenty of fresh grassy hops, grapefruit, orange, lemon, banana, clove, mango. The alcohol is very well masked. The banana really stays on the tongue after taking a sip. I would imagine that bottle refermentation helps keep it tasting as fresh as it does. Food pairing options for this could be interesting to experiment with.