Erdinger Weissbier Dunkel

Brewed by Erdinger Weissbräu
Style: Dunkelweizen
Erding, Germany

Very neat aroma of bread fresh baked, cooled then busted open. Initial flavor is very smooth, one of the most enjoyable beers I have tasted. Very tasty with no bitter hops. No offensive finish what so ever. Much better than any of the highly touted bitter beers I see on this website. I’ll never taste another imperial stout or IPA again. Thanks erdinger. Note: My bottle did not say ’dunkle’ on it, it said ’hefe-weizen dark’ 5.5% but everybody assures me this is the same beer.

Stupendously huge head, near gushing, light-greige in colour, over mahogany to ebony beer. Soft sweet nose with coffee and coloured malts, horse fodder, malt- or café noir cookies, speculoos, sweet leaf vegetable as misuna. Licorice flavour; faintly bready, quite sweet but not as typically confectionary like most Bocks. Maybe a bit of banana, overripe, but remarkably restrained on fruitiness; cloves or other spices all but absent. Rather light bodied, no burning in the MF - and no acidity neither. A tad too sweet to my liking, but not as stereotypic as most of its brethren. Not something to go hunting for, but if you come across it, don’t waste the opportunity.

Bubbly head, dark brown colour. Caramel and roasted coffee aroma, slightly acidic. Drinks very well, very slight bitterness in finish.

Pours dark brown with big frothy head. Sweet carmel aroma. Nice malty flavor. Roasted, carmel, and sweet with a dry aftertaste. Easy to drink, easy to appreciate. Very Drinkable.

Very bubbly dark Hefeweizen, with a slightly acidic finish. Well-balanced between hops and malt. Overall, very good.

(Bottle) Pours a dark brown body with a medium-sized beige head. Aroma of sweet malt, toffee, and some fruit. Falvor of dark malts and some dark fruitiness with a dry, somewhat bitter finish.

Bottle, Aikman’s Cellar Bar, St Andrews. Dark brown, huge white head. Aroma is somewhat spicy, malty, chocolatey. Mouthfeel is over-carbonated to the extreme, tastes chocolatey, cocoa malt, wheat, nice slow bitter finish. Would be better if it weren’t for the bottle carbonation.

Draught (Bavarian Beerhouse, EC1): Dark brown with a pale head. Lacking in aroma, but light chocolate and banana in the flavour. Refreshing, and very drinkable.