New Glarus Black Wheat

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

12oz bottle, courtesy of Heemer77. Served in a lager glass at 53.5°. Pours dark reddish brown, just a few shades light of black with a one fingered head that dies down to a foam ring pretty quickly. The aroma is rich, roasty, chocolate, coffee, with milky notes and some holiday spice? Aromatic! The taste is roasty malt, bakers chocolate, and espresso initially with a dulce de leche sweetness midway and some nice fruit flavor (overripe bananas) and a bit of a roasty, slightly astringent finish. The mouthfeel is full. This is a tasty beer!

12oz bottle - Pours a very murky dark brown when viewed via a strong light. The head is fizzy, creamy, mediun tan and hangs in pretty long. Lacing is minimal at best. Aroma is mostly coffee and cloves with hints of caramel. Flavor was mostly coffee with hints of banana and wheat, however, once it warmed up a bit, notes of chocolate and roasted nuts came through as well. Mouthfeel is rich, full and a tad buttery. The finish is distinctly wheat & yeast and kind of dry. This is a very nice change of pace. Not a great beer but very dinkable and enjoyable.

Pours a dark brown nearing black with a nice layer of brow head.definitely has the roasted malts in the nose but the flavor was a little more complex than the nose.More of the spice and chocolate.Has a nice lingering aftertaste.

At Argo0’s: A nice heavy beer. Very malty beer that stands up well with it’s german cousins. Tender

Pours a dark black. Aroma is strong and interesting. I can smell the bananas and cloves, but yet I also detect a rye smell. Very creamy on the palate. Flavor is chocolate, nutty, with hints of cloves and banana. This is definitely interesting, not my favorite, but not bad. Thanks wawood for getting me one!

Nose-banana and cream. Translucent hazy brown body. Taste-banana, cream, cloves. Tastes like liquid banana pudding. IMO, the malt and hops on this is good, but they need to use a bifferent yeast strain. But that’s just me.

Thanks to footbalm for this awesome sample. Pours Brown and murky with an off white head. Smells peppery with some nice clove, fig, allspice, cinnamon, mace and nutmeg present. Tastes of bananas, pears, and peppery with a nice mouthfeel and sweet finish.

Nuts & grains with some chocolate and coffee notes. Large tan tight bubble head. Dark brown, opaque. Decent head retention. At first sip this seemed more like a nut brown than a wheat beer. But at second sip, the banana, wheat and clove come through. Very nice and smooth. Some lace, but it forms mostly on the sip side of the glass and doesn’t stick very well. Doesn’t taste overly alcoholic at all. Wish it was a little richer, but all styles are not created equal. Very well made. Thanks Robertsreality for hooking me up with this one.