Julius Echter Hefe-Weissbier Hell

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

16-oz. bottle. Pours a cloudy and hazy browned lemon with a tall and foamy white head, spotty-lined lacing. Aroma is heavily nutty and yeast (wheat) with medium roasted malt (meal, biscuit). Mildly bitter yeast (dark wheat) and nutty, caramel biscuit flavor, no acidity, medium to low sweetness, tart citrus fruit - faint and quickly disappears, lasting wheat flavor. Medium bodied and fizzy-spicy, dry palate.

Quite a decent hefeweizen, I really do not get enough of these. Nice haziness, bubbles are great when poured into the proper glassware, sweetness to the aroma, kind of citrus, flavor is very representative of the style, cloves, citrus with that background of wheat-y goodness. Nice a little better than the average, but no particularities worth noting.

Typically attractive hefe-type pour...hazy, yeasty, big rocky head. Appetizing aromas of grass, banana, lemon... Flavor was sweet/fruity/bubblegum/orange juice/bananas/and clove...Quite refreshing.

The beer does not have the characteristics of most hefeweizens. The aroma has quite noticeable hops and yeast; it’s sweet, sour, and acidic as well. Not as much of a banana smell as I had hoped. The appearance is a hazy gold with some large particulates. The head is foamy. The flavor is not terrible but a disappointment since it does not taste much like a wheat beer. It has some bubblegum, it’s bitter and sour; also it’s slightly sweet. The palate is thin. The finish is surprisingly dry. This is an odd hefeweizen.

Bottle. A very cloudy straw coloured hefe with a fairly small whitish head. The aroma is full of lemon and banana notes, together with yeast and spices. The taste is quite full with banana and clove notes. It is a little too heavy but at least it’s not thin and dull like a lot of hefes.

Draught: strongly hazed pineapple-orange with a generous fluffy white head. Fresh citrus (orange), clove, and banana peel aroma. Many of these German wheat beers are simple and lack complexity for me, but this one was deep and interesting. A creamy palate replaced what is normally chewy, gritty or otherwise mushy…and created a great delivery method for the fresh fruit and light hop bitterness. I actually ordered a second half liter glass and enjoyed it down to the last drop (strange indeed for me).

Cloudy gold with foamy white head. Nose is wheat and bananas. Taste is the same.

This hefeweissen is packaged in an uncustomary 16 oz. bottle, as opposed to the standard 500 ml typical of such exports. It pours hazy golden yellow to light orange with huge, long-lasting white head. It leaves a dazzling cascading lacing pattern. There are pronounced aromas of light citrus, clove and ripe banana in the nose. Initial palate is clean and quite dry. Mid-palate develops the flavors suggested by the aroma, but the citrus tang is more lemon than orange. This ale is medium bodied and effervescent with dry palate through-and-through. Brief, tart finish and slight alcohol taste. Best served ice cold. Very good.