Capital Kloster Weizen

Formerly brewed at Capital Brewery
Style: German Hefeweizen
Middleton, Wisconsin USA

Bottle. Pours a hazy yellow/gold with pretty much no head. Wonderful bouquet of banana. Not very carbonated but creamy and rich. Delicious sweet banana on the palate with some vanilla and citrus. Very enjoyable. Thanks Beervana for the bottle.

(12 oz bottle: Obtained in trade with Ughsmash, thanks Jason!) While I know that vanilla is acceptable according to the style guidelines, it still seems really odd to taste vanilla in a beer that is supposedly a German hefeweizen, probably because the vanilla really does seem way too prominent here. The wheat flavor, light spice, and obvious banana are also present and more what I expected. However, maybe it’s just my expections, but the label says it’s a Bavarian Style Hefe Weizen, yet I find this beer to be ridiculously sweet. Initially I thought I was tasting honey, but I think it’s more the flavor of overripe bananas. Vanilla and sweet banana dominate the nose as well, just like the flavor. Body is light-medium with good carbonation. Pale golden and very hazy in appearance, but not what I’d call cloudy. Maybe it’s the screwtop cap, but there was hardly a wimper from the bottle when I opened it, and the beer poured with a small, fizzy, off-white head that was completely gone in a flash. Plain and simple, this beer is just way too sweet for the style, and there’s nothing to offset it. I don’t find this to be a terrible beer, but I think it is terribly out of balance. I’m obviously not a fan of this well-regarded beer.

12 oz bottle - Pours golden cloudy with a fluffy white head that stays well and laces down the weizen. Aroma is wheat, yeast, and a touch of honey. also a bit of bannana and a bit of spice. Flavor is clove, bannana, honey, a bit of lemon. Palate is light and airy and very drinkable. Quite enjoyable on a summers day I’m sure and tasty even on a cold winter day in Ohio..

light off orange color tiny white head lace. Smells of honey and wheat some touches of orange peel and some bannannas and other spices. Nice smooth palate well coated and even. This is a good hefe.. nice light bannanna honey some light carmel malts a very good hefe...

Thanks Chuck! Pours to a glowing copper kettle colored body with a nearly non-existent white head. Spotty lacing. The aroma is very nice. Spicy hops, lots of sweet malts, very characteristically hefe. Clove, wheat, light honey lemon. The flavor is nicely sweet. Wheat, cloves, clover, and lemons. The palate is medium-light bodied, light creamyness. I’m liking this a lot. Way to go Capital.

If this site rated according to style, I would award this a perfect 5. This is my favorite Hefe true to style (as opposed to Gumbalhead or Stone 9th, which are wheat beers not true to style.) Notes of honey and wheat, with some citrus blend together. Maybe light in bodied compared to an imperial stout, yes, but not compared to most in its class. There’s no beer I’d rather be drinking on a hot summer day.

(12oz bottle) Lightly hazed golden body, white head. Aroma is medium sweet, clove, lemon, wheat. Taste is medium sweet, lemon, wheat, clove. Watery light body.

Its been murder getting throught all these bottles from my Secret Santa. This poured a hazy yellow with no head. The aroma is nice and spicy, smokey and smells of rice and honey as well. The flavor is not as interesting, but good nonetheless. Flavor comes off as some corn with a bit of spice. Palate is boring as well, nothing too interesting.