New Glarus Black Wheat

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

An unclear brown beer with a light brown head. The aroma is sweet wheat combined with notes of roasted bread. The flavor is also sweet wheaty, but also with notes of malt, and caramel, as well as a roasted end. A good wheat beer.

Bottle 35,5 cl. Courtesy of TheCheeseMan. Pours a hazy and opaque dark brown with and orange hue and an off-white head. Aroma dominated by roasted malts and a whiff of banana and yeast. Medium body, a little roast and very little banana and yeast. Dry finish. Pleasant alright but very far from style - almost closer to a Brown Ale. 130909

12 fl oz bottle, RBSG2009. Pour hazy dark brown with a small off-white head. Roasted and breadish malt aroma with a distinct estery fruity note and mild spiced. Bitter and dry flavoured, minor estery fruity note coming through. Bitter, slight acidic and vague wheaty/breadish malty sweet finish.

Bottle 12fl.oz.
Unclear medium to dark brown color with a large, frothy, good lacing, fully lasting, off-white to beige head. Aroma is moderate malty, roasted, caramel, smoke - meat notes. Flavor is moderate sweet and light to moderate bitter with a average to long duration. Body is medium, texture is oily and smooth, carbonation is soft. [20090913]

Bottle at Papsø. Hazy red brown coloured with a medium sized beige head. Sweet and light roasted aroma of liquorice and dark chocolate. Sweet and light roasted flavour of liquorice and hops. Roasted finish.

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.

Dark brown with a medium off white head. Sweet aroma with roasted malt, chocolate and caramel notes. Sweet flavour with roasted malt, chocolate and caramel notes. Finished sweet.

(12oz bottle) I was curious when drinking this whether it was considered a dunkelweizen or a schwarzbier -- glad to see RB agrees with my senses. Cola brown body with beige head. Aroma is moderately sweet, wheat, banana, light cinnamon. Taste is moderately sweet, wheat, banana, caramel, faint cinnamon. Creamy medium body. No complaints, but I would take Solstice over this any day.