Long Trail Hefeweizen

Brewed by Long Trail Brewery
Style: German Hefeweizen
Bridgewater Corners, Vermont USA

Lots of peach flavor. Good bit of bubble gum. A little banana. Slight wheat tartness. Something very distinct that I can’t place. Not quite a creamy texture, but that’s close. It actually tastes creamy. Like meringue. I think that’s what I was looking for.

Of all the Long Trails we reviewed on this evening, this was the best of them. It pours a light yellow, murky body with a small, fizzy white head. Fair lacing behind a fully diminishing head. Aroma is of perfumey hops with notes of lemon and banana. Initial taste is lightly acidic, finishing with a moderately sweet taste with average duration. Good representation of the style. Body is light and teture is watery with lively carbonation. Reviewer’s notes: "It has a berry taste." Reviewed on September 17th, 2006.

12 oz bottle from variety pack. As has been said over and over, banana is the first aroma that hits the nose. Light cloudiness, gold color, small white head that does not last at all. This is a nice tasting beer, but this would be much more refreshing on a hot summer day than immediately after plowing 3 feet of snow. Still, not bad.

Bottle. Clove and banana bread aroma. Cloudy golden orange color with small head. Ripe banana and orange/pineapple flavor but little else - no maltiness at all. As an American wheat, would have rated higher. A gateway beer for those who don’t really like beer, but little in common with most Hefes.

This beer is a cloudy, pale orange. It’s topped with a small white head that quickly vanishes. It looks very lively; full of bubbles that erupt at the surface and feed the lacing along the edge of the glass. The aroma is plain and simple: banana. It is light, watery and very carbonated. The flavor is very light. It’s the taste of banana chips and lemon water. It’s pretty appropriate to style. The phenol flavor may be a little over-the-top. It’s kind of like a banana-lemon seltzer. Quenching.

Amber pour with medium white head. Lots of banana in the aroma here. Smells like banana Runts. Heavy banana phenolic flavor. Wheat presence noted, however phony banana flavor dominates and ruins this beer.

A fairly decent german hefe with far more german wheat beer charactr than many us offerings making the claim on this style. Solid over-ripe banana and bubble-gum countred with some nice citrus zing.

Tastes like bananas, and wheat. I like this beer, but would be much better if it had a little more body to it. Still really good for an off the grocery store shelf beer.