Great Lakes Glockenspiel Weizenbock

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

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.

Bottled at Monk’s Café Wallingatan, Stockholm. Hazy copper colour, brief head. Banana aroma with light toastiness. Sweet and fruity, medium bodied with fairly clean mouthfeel. Pleasant banana esters, but the clean moutfheel doesn’t allow for muchdpth in flavour

Date: 10/05/2007
Mode: Growler
Source: Tasting

opaque burnt orange, wispy beige head, streaks of drippy lace, sweet banana aroma with the slightest hint of banana, rich malt flavor, lots of sweet banana, good dark caramel character to bring out the sweetness,

Aroma: 7/10; Appearance: 7/10; Flavor: 7/10; Palate: 6/10; Overall: 13/20
Rating: 3.4/5.0
Drinkability: 7/10
Score: **+/4

(Draught) Pours a cloudy deep golden brown body with a moderate off-white head. Aroma of bubble gum, clove, bananas, figs, and brown sugar. Flavor of figs, banana, clove, orange, caramel, and nuts.

Sample from Growler courtesy of weeare138. Poured a medium to deeper and cloudy amberish / brownish color with a smaller sized off white head. Aromas of bananas, cloves, cinnamon, citrus, wheat, and caramel. Tastes of bananas, wheat, caramel, cloves, and citrus. Nice clean finish.

@Pauls Girardin chugging-12oz bottle–pours a light tan ring for a head and hazy amber color. Aroma is sweet medium malt-caramel, banana. Taste is sweet medium malt-caramel/peat, banana, spice hops.

Muddy brown, covered by an enormous off-white foamy and eternal head. Charming aventinus like toasted malt and identifiable biscuitiness is taken aback by this surprisingly efficient yeast bringing forth pure doughy, banana, grapey and cloves glory. Remarkable flavours integration, whereas the chocolate meet the cloves into an herbal fashion and to make any Chef’s envy. Body is medium in size, creamy, ample and mineral, showing the wheat a perfect ground to work in. Exquisite balance, might be as good as Aventinus.

Growler courtesy of crizay: Pours a hazy copper amber with full, nicely-lacing off-white head. Aroma has some light sulfur and tart notes along with a touch of clove and bready German yeast. Body starts fairly full with an authentic, doughy wheaty sweetness, some banana and clove flavor toward a bready German yeasty finish. Nice authenticity and good drinkability, a good weizenbock and surprising made in America, but not quite Aventinus.