Great Lakes Glockenspiel Weizenbock

Brewed by Great Lakes Brewing Company
Style: Weizen Bock
Cleveland, Ohio USA

On tap at great lakes brewery on 9/19/2008. Very hazy yellow-orange color and a thin head. Beautiful looking beer. Aroma is a strong fruity spicy mix of yep, you guessed it, clove and banana. I smelled the some fresh wheat and dark blueberries in there as well. Flavor was top-notch. Great viscous beer covered all the areas of the mouth with a rich fruity flavor with a hint of spice. Definitely one of my favourites from Great Lakes.

GABF 2007. An unclear golden beer with a thin beige head. The aroma is sweet malty with a light note of rotten fruit - too much. The flavor is sweet malty with notes of over ripe fruits - almost rotten, as well as notes of alcohol and wood. Not to my liking.

An old rating i finally got to entering. Aroma was very banana and malty tasting. Flavor was realyl good and sweet with a light yeastiness.

Growler at cbus 9, shared by leopoldstoch! Pours a copper color with a smallish off white head. Aroma is caramel, brown sugar, dough. Flavor are sweet caramel malts, dought, light banana, light floral. Palate is medium bodied, medium carbonation, finished sweet and lightly warming. Awesome!!

Cbus9 shared by butters. Orange-red pourwith a white head. Aroma of lemon/lemon zest, brown sugar, yeast, and banana. Flavors of sweet malt, light clove, earthy hops, yeast, and banana. Medium body sweet with a dry finish.

On tap @ the brew pub 10/7/07: Deep amber coppery, hazy, w/ a lasting light beige, medium sized head. Wheat malt, toasted malt w/ a combination of raisiny and plum fruit, clove, and bananas all at once! An ever so slight vanilla note w/ a touch of bubblegum! Classic nose! Well balanced but just to sweet malty flavors. Wheat malt, bananas, cloves, toasted malt and hints of bubblegum and raisins. Dry wheat malt flavored finish w/ a clove and toasted malt and raisiny clove spiced short lived aftertaste. Leaves the palate clean begging for more! I really prefer Aventinus, but this to me seems like a really good WB! Lots of the classic flavors/aromas, and highly enjoyable!

Shared by butters at C-bus9. I did not get this at all apparently, as I thought it was horrid. The taste was buttery, messy and a convoluted mess of sweet malts, butter, bubble gum and so on. Perhaps infected? I don’t see how as it was straight from the brewery, but this was just awful in my opinion.

GABF 2007: Poured a hazy brown-yellow color. The aroma had a hint of banana, wheaty citrus and some sweetness. Wheaty flavor with a nice banana note. Medium bodied.