Julius Echter Hefe-Weissbier Dunkel

Brewed by Würzburger Hofbräu (Schörghuber)
Style: Dunkelweizen
Würzburg, Unterfranken/Bayern, Germany

Pours a hazy caramel brown with a prominent tan head. Aroma is chocolate with a mixture of citrus, clove, and banana. Taste is the same, though very smooth with a strong flavor. Mouthfeel is extraordinary. A delicious dunkelweizen, my favorite of the genre (so far).

Pours a cloudy cinnamon brown with a big head. The aroma is really more phenolics than esters, more cloves and bandaids than bananas and bubblegum. The carbonation is a bit hard and the burn of bubbles on the tongue kind of deadens it to any other flavors in the beer.

Pours a pretty cool looking cloudy reddish brown, with a huge, well retained light tan head. Big, malty dark fruit aroma, with a good dose of cinnamon and spices as well. Smells very nice. Inviting. The taste has a good amount of wheat, with a heavy malt base and some spice. Dark fruits come through in the end along with the cinnamon. Goes down nice and seems to be really balanced. I was impressed here. pretty tasty.

500 ml pours a cloudy brown-amber with a large head that lasts and leaves nice foamy lace. Aroma is spicy yeast, with some typical clove-banana, with a nice addition of nutty malt versus the typical Hefe. Flavor is dry and spicy, with a nice balance of caramel-malt, some wheat, bubblegum, and faint traces of the typical clove-banana. This beer seems a tad more malty than most dunkel weizens, and it works pretty well. Palate is dryish, carbonated and light-medium.

Bottle. Pours hazy caramel, off white head. Aroma is sour dough, spices, slight mustiness but not like a gueuze, yeast, wheat. Flavor is caramel, spices, wheat. On the gentle side. This is a pleasant beer.

The aroma is quite muted, but holds hints of spice and clove. The body is a murky, muddy orange/brown and holds a two finger thick tan head that is mostly lasting. Lightly tangy, yeasty fore is folloed by watered down clove and spice notes. Gets slightly citrusy tart through the middle and finishes somewhat watery tasting.

Pours a nice hazy brown with a cream/beige colored head. Mild aroma of citrus notes with some clove subtlety. Appropriate level of sweetness on first taste - not overdone at all could have been a bit sweeter for me. Excellent medium body that fills up your mouth. Perhaps I expected more from this beer, but it didn’t have that "wow" factor for me. I liked it; didn’t love it.

Pours very cloudy dark brown. Aroma is doughy malt, dark fruit, and brown sugar. flavor is about the same- mostly brown sugar a tad roasty but is watery especially towards the end.