Hitachino Nest Weizen

Brewed by Kiuchi Brewery
Style: German Hefeweizen
Ibaraki, Japan

Smells strongly of smoke at first giving way to the typical wheat smell of hefes. Some banana notes. Pours a hazy yellow, almost milky looking with a small white fizzy head. Tastes of banana and wheat, quite sweet. A fairly standard hefe, quite good.

Pours a mostly translucent golden with a small bubbly white head. Aroma of green apples, clove, some banana, cereal grains, touch of wheat. Flavor of banana and clove, some ripe apple, cereal grains and some wheat.

Fresh fruit, almost starting to go bad. Cloudy dark golden color with a small and quickly dissipating head. Very tangy malt flavor that mellows slightly in the finish. Mildly creamy and stick palate. Doesn’t taste too much like a hefeweizen but unique like the rest of the Hitachino Nest beers.

Bottle sampled. Pours a clear gold color with a nice fluffy white head. Aroma of wheat, toasted grain, yeast, and some notes of clove. Flavor of light caramel, banana, citrus, and wheat.

Bottle. Poured a light to medium orangish color with a smaller sized head. Aromas of wheat, caramel, with some bananas and cloves. The bananas and cloves come out a little stronger in the tastes with some citrus.

Pours a hazy yellow with a fairly fizzy white head that diminishes quickly to a thin layer of bubbles on the surface. Soft minty wheat with dull banana and clove notes (with time the nose progresses away from this somewhat traditional aroma towards solid lemony/citrus notes). Not quite as light or fresh smelling as a true German hefe. Light, thin and excessively carbonated, it finishes fairly dry. The carbonation in this beer squeegees your tongue of moisture and leaves a slight sourness in the aftertaste. Despite the nose, I find the flavor more citric and phenolic than banana or clove-like. Other than the initial aroma, this beer bears little resemblance to most German hefeweizens. It’s serviceable as spritzy thirst-quencher, but I really couldn’t get into it.

Name: Weizen
Date: April 04, 2002
Mode: Bottle
Source: Ale Atlanta
Appearance: Hazy yellow
Flavor: light sweet aroma and flavor, clean

Name: Weizen
Date: May 18, 2005
Mode: Bottle
Source: Tasting
Score: ii to i
Appearance: Hazy yellow
Aroma: slight tart aroma
Flavor: tart lemony flavor, hint of sweetness, needs complexity

Aroma: 4/10; Appearance: 2/10; Flavor: 2/10; Palate: 2/10; Overall: 5/20
Rating: 1.3/5.0
Score: * /4

The score was calculated based upon the notes and an old scoring system.

Beer is cloudy, light/medium bronze/orange-brown. Head is initially small, white, frothy. Totally and immediately diminishing.<P>Smells like a gueze! Malty with light notes of toasted grain; Hoppy with light notes of citrus zest, pine/resin; Lean and yeasty with moderate bret notes of horse blanket and barnyard, touch of band-aid.<P>The flavor is moderately acidic, lightly sweet, lightly bitter with a long, moderately bitter/dry, lightly acidic, lightly sweet finish.<P>The body is medium, the texture is watery and the carbonation is lively.<P>Mislabeled little gem.