Carlsberg Carls Hvede

Brewed by Carlsberg Brewery
Style: German Hefeweizen
Copenhagen, Denmark

Golden with an ok white head. Elder aroma with grainy notes, fruity from apples, grapefruits and citrus. Wheat flavor, creamy and malty with banana, pineapple and some elder. Mild sweetish finish.

Hazy yellow, quite lasting offwhite head. Fruity aroma with apple, grape and pineapple. Some wheat and yeast. Quite mild fruity flavor, malty and with some grain. Mild finish.

This was massively wheaty and a tad Belgian in flavor. Extremely yeasty and I was impressed just how "german" this hefe was in taste. An impressive effort from an overall unimpressive brewery.

On tap at the Carlsberg visitor centre. Hazy yellow with puffy white head, that lasts to the last sip. No real aroma and flavor, which is strange as I remember this beer as being quite nice with lots of banana and glove as in the good german weizenbiers. Strange - maybe they have changed yeast or something? I will try and rerate this, to see if I’ve just been unlucky.

Really not that interesting, if you want a weissbier look somewhere else. Both aroma and flavor is very weak.

A great beer when on draft, still nice on bottle, but you have to make sure to have a glass big enough to fit the whole beer. A taste of lemon is hidden in the beer, that creates the fruity taste of summer.

A hint of bitterness and sweetness, but only a hint. Very plain and one dimensional. (Draught in Carlsberg Brewery, Kobenhavn)

(on tap) It is a nice deep orange brew that welcomes you in the tall glass, but it will turn in to a trivial drink. The aroma is heavy on wheat and some orange and the taste, at first, seem good balanced by the sweetness and hint of hopping. But after a few sips, it becomes very boring, no balanc betwwen carbonation, wheat and sweetness. It turns into a flat, semisweet, acidic brew real fast.