Long Trail Hefeweizen

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

12oz bottle. Pours a cloudy straw yellow. Head disappears quickly leaving no lacing. Smells of faint clove, lemony citrus, sweet banana and faint grassy hops. Taste is dry and lemony followed by some residual sweetness. Finishes dry with clove flavor. Nice clean crisp taste.

Bottle 355 ml
Appearance: Clear gold with large fine white top. Should be named Kristal Weizen.3+
Nose: Bubble gum , white sugar , dust with wheat grainy hints. End accented on sugar beet. 5-
Flavor/Palate : Medium bodied with fairly soft character. Sweet raspberry character that is not typical to style. Yeasty notion. One thing is sure this is not German Hefe.

Bottle. Wheaty lemonish aroma. Hazy goldish yellow body, white head. Flavor is spicy with citrus tang, very refreshing.

pours yellow, almost resembles piss. smells of apples and other fruits and with a nice bite of apple at first taste

Bottle. Pours a light copper body with a 2 finger off white head. lots of fruity esters banana is the dominant note. Lightly spiced with pepper and citrus to finish. A light lemon zest i enjoyed it simple as it may be.

Pale orange with decent head. Very citrussy aroma with a touch of wheat. Flavor is almost over poweringly lemony sweet. With a dull malty wheat. Not enough bitterness, too unbalanced onthe sweet side.

It was an okay Hefeweizen. As of this rating the Gernan’s have definitely mastered the art of a good Hefe. This was a decent attempt but in general I found it to be a little weak and lacking in flavour. But I will say it was a decent beer.

I acquired this from a "Summer Survival" mix pack of Long Trail brews on a recent trip to Vermont. The trip wound up being absolutely amazing, and the beers were very enjoyable during our weekend of camping and exploring. On our first night at the campsite, I promptly popped open a Long Trail Hefeweizen, and, being the picky beer drinker that I am, dug my hefeweizen glass out of my suitcase so as to make sure I got a good look at the cloudy, hazy, citrussy-bright body with a lusciously billowing and tightly compacted head. I am not a huge fan of most American takes on German hefeweizens, but this one is an excellent example. It has a nice, crisp, bready malt backbone, complemented by a very fresh, ripe banana body, and loads of citrus and pineapple notes. The mouthfeel is refreshingly bright and invigorating, and the finish lingers with malt and lemon-peel notes for some time. This is one of my favorite all-around hefeweizens, and it was an excellent start to my exploration of Vermont’s very rich beer culture.