New Glarus Black Wheat

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

Bottle thanks to Bitbucket!
Black cherry body with a thin beige head. Nose has heavy anise, chocolate, and roasted grain. Flavor is similarly but shows too much alcohol, adding a medicinal note that grows through the finish. Incredible body with light carbonation and silky weight. Pretty good, but the anise and heavy medicinal quality aren’t personal favorites.

12 oz. bottle shared by shigadeyo. Pours a dark brown color with a large fluffy beige head. The aroma has notes of chocolate, roasted malt, spices, yeast, and slight banana. The flavor has nice amounts of roasted malt, mild caramel sweetness, banana, cloves all with the expected wheat notes. The mouthfeel is rather full for a wheat beer, but soft and smooth with every sip. Another solid offering from one of my favorite breweries.

Bottle courtesy of decoman from TBS. An opaque dark brown with tan head. Very smoky smell, some coffee as well. It actually reminds me of a very fizzy porter. I was quite impressed with this - it’s unlike most beers I’ve ever tried. I’ll definitely drink this one again.

This one poured very black with a long lasting (as expected for a wheat) head. The taste was moderate roast, and I could taste the chocolate and a little caramel. Maybe some soy sauce. Clove like spice was noticable. Hops were not noticable. I could probably drink a total of 2 in one session without being overcome by the thicker roast taste.

Weak molasses and soy sauce aroma. Cloudy dark brown, thick tan head with poor retention. Medium body, bloody mouthfeel. Charred wheat flavor initially with a burst of marshmallow and molasses at midpalate. Faint bark and grass finish. Banana notes appear upon quaffing. Good balance and nice transitions. A nice beer, but perhaps a bit overhyped.

Dark brown pour with a tan foamy head. Aroma is cocoa powder, coffee, smoke. Flavor is slightly cocoa, earth, leaves. Syrupy mouthfeel.

I don’t know how this brewery manages to make so many good beers. The beer pours a nearly opaque brown-black with an inch of light brown head. The sweet Belgian yeasts are the first to hit the nose. Then the roasted grain. And the flavors hit in the same order followed by roasted grain and chocolate flavors. The roasted flavors seem to perfectly compliment the sweet yeasts and the finish is just the right amount of dryness. Yet another winner from NG. Keep up the good work!

12 oz bottle. Pours a deep, hazy mahogany color, frothy off-white head. Aroma is spicy, with citrus and coriander notes. Flavor is citrusy up front , with some malty cocoa and anise notes in the middle, and a spicy finish. Body feels slightly full. Overall I enjoyed this very unique beer. It took me a while to track it down, but I finally found a lone six pack hiding behind some other products at the one place in town that carries it. Worth the trouble!