Franziskaner Hefe-Weissbier

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

Bottle at Haket 2008-02-08. Cloudy light colour with plenty of creamy head. Sweet, fruity aroma with citrus. Wheat, bananas. Highly carbonated.

Thick creamy head invites the drinker, but the color is slightly unappealing. Smells like a good wheat beer. Taste is calm and mellow with a light fruity flavor.

Very nice hefe here...the bottle I got was just a little skunky but it didn’t affect the flavor too much. Looked really good, nice and cloudy but as I said the smell was a little skunk mixed with banana and a biscuity smell. Taste was great, just like a good banana nut bread. Overall, I liked this one.

Orangish golden in color. Not as much head as usual for a hefe. The white head is spritzy. Light wheat aroma with hints of banana. Medium-darker wheat taste with a highly carbonated mouthfeel. Zippy finish. A good weizen, but not the best.

Bottle. Hazy orange beer with fluffy white head. Sweet aroma of wheat and yeast. Light banana flavor with a yeast finish. Its nice but very light.

0.5 l bottle. Hazy deep yellow color with thick head. Grainy and clovey aroma with hint of banana and vanilla. Wheaty and clovey flavor with quite smooth and oily mouthfeel. The deep fruity and spicy tartness separates this from other weizens. Good, allthough not my favourite weizen.

Lovely cloudy-orange beer with a huge head that lasted the whole glass, with lots of sticky lacing. Pronounced lemon-yeast aroma, with a hint of something warm -- maybe clove? Taste was really delightful -- mild, citrus with a touch of yeasty banana, and a lingering spicey, almost peppery clove-like aftertaste. Not as heavy as Paulaner or Weihenstephaner -- milder, less forward, and a bit less hops bitterness. Amazing mouthfeel for this style of beer: quite smooth and rounded. At 5.0%, and such a pleasant taste, you could drink these comfortably for a long session.

Quite simply, there probably isn’t a better German wheat beer. American wheat beers WISH they could be this good. In fact this style might be one of the "original" session beers.

The beer pours out a cloudy, yellow-orange color with a stunning one three finger head which transformed to a 1/2 inch creamy thick cap which stayed during my entire drink. Aroma...bananas. And oh so refreshing. Even on a cool March evening it still manages to refresh. Some sweet malts and just a kiss of citrus. Bananas is the main attraction on the aroma though. Mouthfeel is creamy and smooth. Flavors had some nice maltiness to it, subtle citrus...maybe even a bit of vanilla. The flavors just meld incredibly well and transform this into a top notch thirst quencher. Might just be my favorite wheat beer, although New Glarus is very close.