Gordon Biersch Dunkelweizen

Brewed by Gordon Biersch Brewing Company
Style: Dunkelweizen
Palo Alto, California USA

Banana with a hint of caramel and vanilla smell with a lot of grain malt aroma. Hazy light brown color with aapplejuice hue and can not see the action. Grainy wheat and barley malt taste with a hint of banana, bubblegum, and vanilla flavor. Light bodied, rich with a hint of a buttery feel, and has lively soft carbonation. A good toasted grainy wheat and barley session beer, yummy.

7/15/08 From the bottle. Aroma is classic wheat grainy with slight wheat sourness, a little additional bready roast character, light peppery phenolics, and sweet banana. Appearance is hazy brown with a very well maintained cream colored head. Flavor is biting and peppery, with a very good sweet/sour malt balance that has lots of banana character. Mouthfeel is medium bodied, creamy, with a medium carb feel. Overall, there’s pretty impressive complexity here, but is a bit too strong on the banana at times. Still, not a huge complaint.

One of the best American Wheats I have tasted. Not as good as the German Dunkelweizen, but certainly better then almost any wheat beer available over here. I would disagree with the comment above, this is a beer to seek out although you will have to go to a brewery to find it. This beer has a nice texture, pleasing on the tongue, with a standard dunkelweise appearence (like a German Hefeweizen with a light newcastle color). It was a little strong on the palate, but certainly one of the best, if not the best beer that Gordon Biersch makes.

12 oz bottle. Pours a cloudy dark amber body with a huge frothy beige head that retained forever. Dark over-ripe banana nose with some light chocolate, fluffy yeast, and earthy wheat. Banana bread in a glass. The flavor is much the same, sweet crusty banana bread with some vanilla on the finish. Some light alcohol, cocoa, maybe a touch of nuttiness like black walnuts. Mouthfeel is soft and creamy with nice gentle carbonation. The was surprisingly good. For the price, this would be a nice go-to Fall beer.

Draft at Gordon Biersch at the SFO airport! Excellent on draft! Nose of banana, cloves, and bready yeast. Murky red-amber with a big off hwite glass lacing head, the color and murkiness looks like tomato juice was added, but not! Flavor is caramel, banana, and a tiny bit of hop bitterness. Good thing I walked around the terminal while I had to wait three hours even if it was a 7:30 AM breakfast beer.

On tap at GB in Palo Alto. Decent stuff. The appearance is a little off-putting with more purple haze than an Amsterdam coffee shop. Brownish-purple overall, and yes, it’s hazy. Off-white head. Wheat, yeast, banana, clove, and malts on the aroma. Same on the taste, highly phenolic and pretty sweet with spices thrown in there (or so it seems - I know they claim this conforms to the Reinheitsgebot). Smooth palate and a sweet finish.

Brown body with thick head. Banana flavors, reminded me of runts, some marshmellows, great flavor overall. Aroma was tarter than the flavor, but I really liked the overall feel of this.

Heavy banana on the nose and tongue. Malty sweet finish. Lackluster palate and complexity compared to the great German Dunkelweizens. For a larger brewery and price this is an excellent offering from Gordon Biersch.