MacTarnahans Uncle Ottos Weiss Beer

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

Solid weiss with the wheat sweetness and hint of banana. The clove is what makes this beer taste a little unusual.

Hazy unfiltered with good lacing and not much head. Light wheat and alcohol aroma. Flavor has banana and clove esters with a bland wheat background, hops are detectable though. Good clean finish but not as full of flavors as most german wheats.

Pours hazy dark straw with sourish hopcit and fruit aroma. Not as complex or balanced as other hefes I’ve had.

This pours a bright gold with a little haze and a small white head. There are oranges, flowers and grass in the aroma. This tastes like oranges and yeast. This wheat is not special.

Bottle and served in my generic hefe glassware:

Pours a cloudy straw yellow hue with an initial frothy head that fades and produced little lace. The aroma has lots of lemon and clove but minimal banana esters or wheat for that matter, a bit grassy and noble hops come about. The taste does not cut it as a hefeweizen, sure it is better than most American wheats and has a crisp tartness but little else of what I like in the style is present. Yeasty on the finish and some lingering bitterness. The feel is refreshing and crisp, so it is drinkable. Back to some real Bavarian hefes...this is a one try bier.

Light gold color, large head, slightly cloudy. A light bodied wheat beer, mild malts and hops. Lot of flavor. A hint of Banana and clove adds to the fruitiness. Mouthfeel is round. Finish is smooth and clean. Aftertaste is slightly sweet. Clean and refreshing.

This brew poured a small sized head of mostly diminishing fine to medium sized bubbles that left behind very little lacing lacing and a hazy light yellow brown colored body with some yeast visibly floating in it. The aroma was mixture of malt clove banana and dough while the mouthfeel was initially tingly then finished smoothly with just a mild bite. The flavor was unexciting with simple notes of malt dough yeast and mild sweetness. As a final note, I found it be just a little on the odd side for a Weiss.

This beer lacks character in my opinion. It poured almost no head with very, very fine sized bubbles. The body was clear with carbonation observed and the hue was gold. The nose consisted of malt, fruity, clove and banana. The flavor was sweet and malty with a smooth mouthfeel. There was no lacing.