Flying Dog In-Heat Wheat Hefeweizen

Brewed by Flying Dog Brewery
Style: German Hefeweizen
Frederick, Maryland USA

Not horrible, but nothing special either. Slight citrus hop nose which comes out much more distinctly in the flavor. Nothing special but it was the best beer on at at this place.

Wow. Best American attempt at a Germain Hefeweizen that I’ve had to date. Everything is damn near identical to my favourites. Perhaps a tad bit more spicy than say Franziskaner or Paulaner but still very classical. This is my first Flying Dog beer and I have a feeling it wont be the last. Good start. Good beer.

bottle - Pours light amber with insignificant small, off-white head. Sweet, yeasty nose with some notes of citrus, bubblegum, and apple. Flavor a bit flat, a little yeast with a bit of honey but not much going on there. It was refreshing but was missing something.

Tap @ The White Horse: Great colour and foam. Super lemon aromas, light cloves, spicy and tingly. Quite a burst of tartness on the tongue mellowing to slow bready glow but nothing much of a finish. Pretty tasty but ultimately unsatisfying.

Bottle @ Ølfestival, Esbjerg, 2009.
Pours muddy, lightly pale yellow with a small, creamy, white film head. Soft aroma, more malty than actually fruity. High carbonation, fine lightly grainy mouthfeel. Sweet and grainy flavour, light banana and a touch of oranges. Okay hefe.

Bottle 355ml. Poured muddy straw with an averaged sized, fizzy, off-white head which was fully diminishing. A yeasty aroma with bready malts, bubblegum, ripe banana, cloves, vanilla and light notes of hay. Flavor had virtually no bitterness with sweet yeasty malts, banana sweets, creamy ripe pears, cinnamon, cloves and straw. Light bodied with medium carbonation, a watery texture, creamy mouthfeel and a short length finish.

courtesy of Allen - pours a fully cloudy dark orange colour with an instantaneously disappearing foam; aroma of hay and orange peel; overcarbonated and with a moderate malt backbone; corny with notes of paper, sweet and acidic; some residual sugars in a fruity and papery finish - not convincing

Cloudy orange color; no head worth talking about. It’s got a dumb name and a Hunter S. Thompsan quote on the label, so I wasn’t expecting much. Even these hopes weren’t quite met. Sugary finish, hints somewhere of fruit and spices, but it’s lost in the... wateriness of it all.