New Glarus Black Wheat

Brewed by New Glarus Brewing Company
Style: Dunkelweizen
New Glarus, Wisconsin USA

Pours an opaque dark brown, with a tall tan head with excellent retention. Leaves globs of brown lace. Aroma is principally smoky roasted notes, with some fruit esters at the edges. Flavors are similarly roasty, but the clove and banana elements play an important role here. Well harmonized on the whole. Medium bodied, somewhat dry.

Beer pours an almost pure black color with a tan head with a nice lacing. The smell is is of coffee, clove, banana, and chocolate. The taste is the same as the smell, according to notes, it sticks to the tongue very well for a long lasting taste. It has a full bodied mouthfeel, and this one is definately a drinkable beer.

12 oz bottle 9/13/07: Deep brown w/ a thing, but lasting light beige head. The aroma was almost like a schwarzbier with a wheat twist. Wheat malt initially, but also lightly roasty and chocolate w a touch of clove yeast. Toasted malt shows up, but roast gets weaker as it warms. Wheat malt is the dominant flavor with a lightly roasted malt. Some tartness from both wheat and dark grains pops in and has a dry finish. Faint clove spice in and out as it may have aged out? A bit of a roasty aftertaste and well balance throughout. Medium body, medium CO2, smooth m/f. Nicely made beer and seems to be a good thirst quencher for a darker beer. I wish I had more!

Date: March 04, 2005
Mode: Bottle
Source: Tasting, RateBeer SE Gathering, 2005
Appearance: dark hazy brown
Aroma: sweet banana aroma
Flavor: nice light chocolate flavor, touch of sweet banana

Date: June 18, 2005
Score: ii+ to iii+
Aroma: good chocolate covered banana aroma
Flavor: rich chocolate flavor with perfect sweet banana balance

Date: July 18, 2005
Mode: bottle
Appearance: black with just a hint of ruby edges in a bright light, big creamy tan head drips beautiful lace down the glass
Aroma: some sharp clove in the aroma with the rich chocolate and banana
Body: huge creamy body
Flavor: the most wonderful chocolate covered banana flavor you could imagine, lasts through to the finish with no sign of bitterness, only a hint of clove in the flavor

Date: August 14, 2009
Mode: bottle
Source: trade
dull chocolate and lackluster esters, a sad fate for this beer,

Aroma: 7/10; Appearance: 8/10; Flavor: 8/10; Palate: 8/10; Overall: 17/20
Rating: 4/5.0
Score: ***4

The score was calculated based upon the notes and an old scoring system.

Thanks to Hezron (I think) for this one. This was the most "weizen" dunkelweizen I think I’ve ever had. While definitely dark, with lots of roasted malt flavor coming through, this one had the pronounced banana/bubblegum flavor of a classic hefeweizen. I really appreciated the juxtaposition of the two aspects.

Very dark and thin bodied with tastes of spices, coffee, malt and a bunch of other stuff that I cant even begin to remember. Very strong alcoholic warming effect after the swallow.

A big Thank You to some forgotten RateBeerian for this beer! It’s been in my frige for several months now.

Pours a murky ink black/brown body and a tall khaki head. the aroma hints of banana, bubblegum, coco, almonds, a split vanilla bean, and red apples. The flavor has a raw chocolaty appreciation, with suggestions of coconut milk and Bananas Foster … Black Wheat was at it’s best once it warmed almost to room temperature.

(Bottle) Pours a murky dark brown with a medium tan head. Aroma of roastiness, grape, licorice, smoke, rye, florals, and freshly ground corn feed. Flavor of wheat, molasses, toasted oats, rye bread, and spices.