Great Lakes Glockenspiel Weizenbock

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

My Bottom Line:
Cloves and bananas float atop this Weizenbock’s caramelized cereals for a softly carbonated and lean example of the style.

Further Personal Perceptions:
-A veil of foam skirts the hazy dark amber.
-Carbonation could definitely be more effervescent.
-The flavor profile is not as complex as the best Weizenbocks out there.
-My expectations may have been too high for this brew as I usually love everything Great Lakes brews.

Bottle.

Bottle ( 12oz ). Clear deep copper with an average frothy diminishing off-white head. Aroma is mostly alcohol, mild spice and vague fruit (raisin?) - slightly nutty. I quite like the taste - the alcohol is somewhat muted, and it’s fruity and spicy, dry roast, a bit floral. Light body and carbonation, with a smooth not-boozy finish, just a dry spicy afterlinger. Pretty drinkable.

12 oz. bottle via trade with Ughsmash - Pours a deep amber color with a one and a half finger thick off white head. Aroma is esters (banana) and toasted malt. Flavor is sweet esters and malt. A tad dry. Light to medium body. Nice. Thanks Jason.

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.