New Glarus Black Wheat

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

Pours almost completely black with a big, 2 finger thick, merangue-like head. Aromas are carmel, wheat, bananas, and coffee. Flavors are carmel, coffee, cloves, bananas, and yeast. I don’t believe that coffee is a common trait of a German Dunkel, but as an Impy Stout lover, it works for me.

I really don’t get how this beer can be the highest rated dunkelweizen on the site?! I’m not a wheat beer fan, but this beer has nothing that the ordinary german dunkelweizen don’t have!! Pours muddy colored with a fluffy brown head. Yeast and wheat aroma with hints of anise and coffee. Wheat and banana in the flavor with smokey hints. Pretty odd and not a beer for me. As said, way overrated imo.

Bottled: Reddish brown . Light brown head. Sweet, malty and spiced aroma. Some yeast notes. Flavour is light banana, yeast, spiced and sweetness. Is quite bland and dull. Thin bodied. Ends on a light spiced sweet note. Tasted again in Sep. 09. Didn´t change my rating.

Bottled. Muddy brown coloured. Yeasty and spicy aroma with notes of banana. Roasty flavour with notes of fruits, yeast and spices. Not as heavy and cloying as most German dark wheat beers.

pour is a dark dark brown, creamy tan colored head, body is not quite opaque, but its pretty close. aroma is sweet, you can tell this is a weizen as soon as you smell it. spices and coffee make up the rest of the nose. flavor is solid caramel, coffee and spices, backed by the wheat sweetness, and tailing off into a bit of chocolate. body is not too heavy for a beer this dark, as it goes down pretty easily, mouthfeel is rich, but not quite chewey. any way i look at it, this is an excellent brew.

Almost perfectly black body. The head is tight with a light tan color. Rich caramel aroma with a little bit of coffee. There is also a little cinnamon spice. The taste is subtle caramel and a little bit of iced tea. There is also some light chocolate with a little bit of vanilla. Excellent beer. I appreciate that they have crafted a subtle dunkel that is still very interesting.

Pours a dark, dark brown with a sienna head of foam that piles on top of the beer quite nicely. Aroma is a typical wheat beer aroma, with a bit of black cherry in the background. Flavor is a flurry of thin smokiness and cinammon, followed by a nice settling of wheat and malt. An interesting beer to say the least; one that I am enjoying thanks to footbalm. A nice deviation from the norm.

Bottle. Poured an opaque brown-black with a brown head that dissipated quickly. Spicy nose with moderate maltiness....hefe like. Flavor is even more pronounced with spice--clovey, banana-like. Caramel roasted malts are there too. A wee too thin for me, but I liked the dry roasty finish. Nice ale.