General Lafayette Bavarian Hefeweizen

Brewed by General Lafayette Inn and Brewery
Style: German Hefeweizen
Lafayette Hill, Pennsylvania USA

Draft at the brewpub. A hazy orange beer with a rim of white head. The aroma is sweet with primary notes of oranges. The flavor is sweet wheaty, but also with a soapy note and some oranges, leading to a dry wheaty end. The carbonation prickles the tongue. It lacks some banana, which makes me wonder if the it is a German yeast that has been used.

Very cloudy golden body with a white head. Aroma is banana, clove, wheat, medium sweet. Taste is clove, some banana, light wheat, lemon. Light, crisp body.

On tap at the GLI. Poured a medium golden color with a small sized white head. Aromas of bananas, light spices and somewhat fruity. Tastes of bananas (stronger in the taste than aroma), light spices and wheat. Medium sweet.

Pours cloudy gold with 1-finger off-white head. Aroma of spice, yeasty hop, some banana. Medium palate with flavors of citrus, yeasty malt, banana, and some clovey phenols. Fairly complex.

Sample at the Philly gathering, July 10. Minimal sweetish nose, dark yellow and cloudy, good body, light sweet flavor, very average.

Poured a hazy gold color with a small white head that quickly diminished. Aroma of banana, clove, bubblegum, and wheat. Tart citrus taste, balanced by some spicy clove and wheat as well. Light carbonation.

pours a hazy golden with a small bubbly white head. Aroma of citrus, banana , clove and wheat. Flavors of the same.

Hazy, golden-yellow body with a big, slow-fading, snowy white head. Blend of spicy yeast and light hop characters in the nose, with slightly plastic phenols, subdued esters and mild nutty wheat in the background. Esters emerge in the flavor with banana and bubble gum notes and notable sweetness. Comes across as a little more malty rather than wheaty, relative to some hefeweizens. A solid wheat beer.