Franziskaner Hefe-Weissbier Dunkel

Brewed by Spaten-Franziskaner-Bräu (InBev)
Style: Dunkelweizen
Munich, Germany

Appearance: Pours a medium brown body with a tall, meringue-like, ivory-colored head. Smell: Clove-scented toasted wheat aroma with notes of apple juice and, to a lesser degree, bananas. Taste: Sweet, toasty, and tangy malted wheat. A bit of treacle and caramel sweetness present. Fruity tastes of bananas and Granny Smith apples. Pinch of clove. Light spicy hops and bitterness. A disquieting wateriness begins to the develop midway. Dull, muted spice on the dry finish. Mouthfeel: Medium-thin body. Downright fizzy carbonation. Drinkability: Pass. While not bad any stretch of the imagination, it fails to show the depth, grace, and deliciousnicity of the finer examples of the style.

A good Weissbier, with a different taste. But if you make a blind test it will be hard to make a difference with the classic weissbier

Pours milk chocolate brown with a creamy light tan head that has pretty good retention. Aroma is of wheat, floury lemon tart, severely overripe banana, vanilla, and berry. Flavor is heavy on raw wheat and toasted barley, plenty of banana pudding with Nilla wafers, a hint of over cooked caramel and some light citrus notes. Finishes buttery and tart with a honey-wheat bread backbone. Good stuff, not great.

Bottle. Cloudy, ruddy brown with a smallish head. Banana and chocolate aroma. Some clove blending with banana flavours and caramel. Overall semi-dry. Drinkable.

A creamy pale brown head rapid strong carbonation in a clear orange brown por aroma malty wheat banana vanilla flavour creamy smooth wheat taste crispness clove banana light bitter hops soapy finish a light roasted wheat taste.

light brown fogged color, tall rocky white head, rich banana hefe nose, mild hefe weizen flavor, no dark alts stand out in flavor, tastes like a rich standard hefe but loses points on the lack of dark malts in the backbone, it looks dark but the flavor hardly matches, actually tastes like a lager...?

500 ml bottle. Finland. (HHOK). Very dark brown hazy colour with puffy head. Not very nice as most of the Dunkelweizens. Aroma is almost as enjoyable as in Hefe-Weissbier. As fruity (banana) but somewhat darker. Flavour is a bit more away from the non-Dunkel version. Quite sweet. So this cannot compete with the original. Very good though.

Had this one on tap at the porter beer bar a while back. Dark brown color with a bit of a red hue and a big tan head. Spicy aroma with a distinct banana flavor. Some clove and cinnamon like flavors as well. The finish is pretty sweet. Full bodied long lasting beer.