MacTarnahans Uncle Ottos Weiss Beer

Formerly brewed at Portland Brewing Company (Pyramid)
Style: German Hefeweizen
Portland, Oregon USA

Not the best wheat beer I’ve had, but an excellent offering for sure. I really enjoy the easy to drink nature of this beer.

Strong yeasty aroma with nice citrus touches as well. Color is a nice brownish-orange with very little head and no lace. A very strong wheat flavor, with nice fruity tones. I think this is a very good wheat beer, especially from the US.

Not impressive on the nose, but it made up with its flavor. Cloudy yeller color , bananas and cloves, refreshing delicious, a good example of a german wheat.

Pours a 'Chill hazed', golden amber color with a massive and frothy head, that is light tan inb color and the lace a decent covering sheet. Nose has a nice hint of yeast, malt sweet and citrus crisp, quite pleasing with the start sweet and a bit tart with a light top. Finish is slightly tart, lightly hopped but pleasant, dry and pleasing aftertaste, a drinkable but average beer.

Philly is in the middle of a heat wave and out of the eight different style of beers I had in the fridge I thought Uncle Otto’s was the best choice for a hot summer night. Weiss beer was a good call, and it was my fist time sampling this brew. Aroma was sour after pouring it, and head quickly dissolved leaving a cloudy beer with no bubbles. Taste wise the beer was very palatable, and quencehed my thirst.

pretty good. this is only my second of this style but i like it. can’t really describe the flavor but its good

This was yet another offering from my May Beer of the Month Club shipment. Had 3 bottles of this after work - they went down pretty easy. This brew pours a hazy amber. The white head is best described as in-between. As in: in between frothy and creamy, mostly lasting and diminishing. It really all depends on how many you have in the SAME glass. The first glass provides the best head characteristics, all that follow are poor. Lacing is virtually non-existant The nose is subtle but complex with many sweet fruit notes (bananna and apricot being strongest), cheese, spices, and perfume. The flavor is nicely balanced between sweet and acidic (sour) and has a malty finish. The brew has a medium dry, fizzy, body; and the finish feels crisp. Reminds me of something that would hail from Belgium.

The only description I can come up with for the aroma is that it’s like the aroma of walking through a damp, but sunny redwood forest. In other words, I can’t place what I smell, but it’s earthy and welcoming. The flavor is like that, too. It’s sunny and pleasant, with an earthy background and just a hint -- a tiny one -- of honey. It’s a nice beer, and one that I would enjoy having on hand.