Hacker-Pschorr Dunkle Weisse

Brewed by Paulaner Brauerei (Schörghuber)
Style: Dunkelweizen
Munich, Germany

draft
5.3% ABV
I tried this beer on November 1, 2007 at "Smokeless Joe’s" in Toronto. The beer was a brownish colour with a thick tan coloured head that lasted throughout the beer. The aroma was malt, caramel, and apple flavours. The mouthfeel was medium bodied with medium carbonation. The flavour was a mixture of malt, and apple.

Pours a clear amber color with a white head. Aroma is malt, wheat, clove, honey, and some herbal notes. Flavor is light malt, wheat, clove, and a peppery bitter finish.

Bottle. Poured a cloudy, dark hazel with a nice head. Smelled malty sweet. For taste, the high level of carbonation makes the first impression. It also tasted roasty, with some banana. It had a medium mouthfeel. A decent beer, not great.

Head hangs around quite a while. Reducing to a layer of bubbles. Strong clove and bananas throughout. Really well done. Would drink it again in a second.

Pours deep amber into a Weizen glass. Fluffy tan head with good retention recedes leaving slight lacing. Banana and clove aromas. Crisp with upfront dark caramel and a lasting clove finish.

(bottle): Pours a dark browv color, somewhat cloudy. Big foamy white head. Somewhat flowery aroma, lots of wheat, dark roasted aroma. Enticing smell. Very bubbly, dark wheat flavor. Some flowers. Very good flavor.

I’m sorry but the experts here ar wrong. 80 is far too high a score for the dunkle weisse. Several German brewers make far superior dark wheats than this. Good color and aroma but the fruit taste is too ripe, almost rotten. Does not finish well. You’re gonna spend the money for a good German dunkle weisse, look elsewhere.

355 ml. bottle, produced on date in the right hand corner of front label (04/07). Sampled in a Hacker-Pschorr weizen glass that was a thrown in bonus after a beer purchase at Dirty John’s in Iowa City, Iowa. Poured a cloudy orange hued caramel brown. Active carbonation in the beginning leads to a large creamy, tight foamy head. Takes awhile to dissipate, a smattering of laced sticking. A nose of bubble gum and banana, fruity esters, lightly sweet toasted malts, touches of caramel and grainy bread. A light herbal hop at the edges. Smooth medium body, creamy malty crispness, well rounded feel in the palate. Subtle clove, nuts and banana, good weizen yeast flavors. Toasted grain bready malts, a mild fruitiness in the middle, traces of lemons. Soft herbal, tea leaf hops that finish with a dry spiciness. An highly quaffable Dunkel Weisse ale, I often find this on sale at stores in my area.