Great Lakes Glockenspiel Weizenbock

12oz. Bottle: Aroma of banana, slight wheat, and slight spices. Poured orange/deep amber/light copper in color with a large, creamy, dense, beige head that diminished but lasted throughout. Cloudy. Slightly sparkling. Full of tiny, small, medium, and large-sized particles throughout. Flavor is light to medium sweet. Tastes of banana, light spices, slight wheat, light yeast, cloves, and light toasted caramel. Medium body. Lightly thick, slightly sticky texture. Soft to average carbonation. Light to medium sweet, banana, slight clove, and slight toasted malt finish is slightly dry, light yeast, and slightly sticky. 8%ABV is completely hidden.

Sampled from a 12 oz brown bottle this beer poured a ruby chestnut color with a medium sized khaki head that lingered. The aroma was malty, sweetish and had notes of banana bread, citrus and clove. The flavor was spicy and moderately sweet with notes of citrus, clove, banana and red wine. The finish was medium length and the body was thick and full. Well done.

(Bottle, Monk’s Café, Wallingatan, Stockholm) Deep amber colour with huge, frothy, beige head. Clear. Fruity, malty, slightly toasty nose with notes of orange, caramel, chocolate and lots of red berries. Rather toned down wheat character. Fruity, malty taste with chocolate, raisins and along come the characteristic wheat flavours with banana and clove. Fairly sweet and more than full bodied. A bit different, but tasty and nice.

Bottled. Murky brown pour, fizzy head. Aroma of pinenuts, lemon, tar, wheat, bazooka joe bubblegum. Lively mouthfeel, grassy body, quite thick and yeasty, almost fleshy, with an oily, walnut finish.

4-pack of bottles, one of which poured flat. Drink by 11/11. Pretty red/amber pour (not the color in the current RB pic), decent head. Banana aroma. Taste is actually lighter than I was expecting, perhaps a bit watery. Cocoa, plum, banana and a hint of anise. The 8% isn’t detectable.

Iced tea pour with a swirling sediment spellbinding appearance. Sweet, clean and strong on the olfactory. Oh my, a strong pikantus impact. Big wheat bock fer sure. Wew, wheat beer kick. Difficult and alkoholic at times. Some creamy carbonation but the finish is really just plain large get you dizzy!

Presentation: It was poured from a brown 12oz bottle into a Weizen glass. Appearance: The body has a deep old copper/amber color. It is very hazy and it produces a small creamy, light tan colored head on top. The head slowly fades down to a thin ring of foam that makes a little slice lacing on the glass. Smell: Its aroma has big full nose of fruity and bready yeast with notes of banana, clove, toffee and fruited liquor. Taste/Palate: To start with this beer has a nice mellow warmth throughout from its 8%abv. It has a big fruity yeast character and full bready malt with plenty of sweetness up front. It has notes of ripe banana, golden raison, sour cherry and just a hint of toffee, clove and leafy hops. The hops add some light bitterness to the back end. The finish is bone dry and the palate is very smooth with a solid medium to full body. Notes: This was a very enjoyable Weizenbock. Its alcohol was very noticeable at first but mellows as you drink and as it warms.

A - Deep reddish orange in color. Tan head falls to blanket coating. No lacing. S -Sweet malt, bananas, candied sugar, wheat. T -Sweet malt, some toffee, mild banana, spice. It has an alcohol bite on end. M/F -Active carbonation - a bit on the course side. Medium body. D - Certainly not a bad beer but it’s no Vitus.