New Glarus Dancing Man Wheat

Brewed by New Glarus Brewing Company
Style: German Hefeweizen
New Glarus, Wisconsin USA

Rating #990, 12 oz. bottle courtesy of Styles, Thanks!!!

first off...WOW, what a great beer! pours a hazy, yet brilliant golden orange with a loooooong lasting orangey-white head. after 10 minutes of sitting in illini08’s weizen glass, it still had a 1/2" pillowy head and after several sips, great lacing. aroma seemed to be your typical german hefe, yeast, clove and some spice. flavor and palate, this is something special! it has it all, bubblegum, banana, yeast, clove and some spice, all blended perfectly. anyone who has read many of my reviews, knows I don’t like a lot of carbonation. I was concerned upon pouring this one since it initially had a huge head and lots of bubbles streaming from the bottom of the glass. turns out, Dancing Man Wheat has such a soft creamy mouthfeel, it has to be experienced to be fully understood. truly a special beer and grossly under-rated.

Bottle shared by Styles: Pours a hazy gold with a white head. Aroma, yeasty, pale malts, wheat and some spices. Flavor, bready, yeasty, spices, banana and some other light fruity notes, wheat as well. Pretty good.

12oz. Bottle on 10/11/07: Aroma of spices, wheat, banana, and bubblegum. Poured a dark yellow/straw color with a medium-sized white head. Cloudy. Very sparkling. Light to medium sweet flavor. Flavor of spices, wheat, bubblegum, toffee, and banana. Medium body. Sticky texture. Lively carbonation. Sweet bubblegum finish. Overall, a very good Hefe.

Bottle. Thanks, sersdf. Really, really good. Full wheat aroma and deliciously simple and full of flavor. A gymnastic bonanzafest of beery goodness in my mouth. The best hefeweizen I’ve had to date.

12oz Bottle $7.99 6-Pack Coffee Grounds, Eau Claire Not one of my favorite styles but I noticed this getting rave reviews and I always look forward to trying New Glarus’s new offerings so I picked some Dancing Man up. Pours a glowing hazy orange with huge amounts of carbonation exploding to the surface. A two finger eggshell head formed on the pour that became creamy as it sat without losing any size. This is really a great looking hefe. Pretty standard aromas come from this hefe but what makes it special is it just seems more pronounced than other hefeweizens I’ve had in the past. Good dose of wheat twang with a nice sprinkling of freshly squeezed orange juice. Warm banana bread and there’s some mild clove in the background but the yeast adds another layer of spiciness. Begs to be drank. Flavor is along the lines of the aroma but more subdued and seamless. Wheat is much bolder in the flavor easing into the mild clove and yeast spiciness with a solid sampling of ripe banana. Finishes with a nice toouch of juicy orange on the swallow. The mouthfeel is as good as I can imagine coming from a hefe. Medium bodied with an incredible smooth creaminess on the palate. It’s like velvet draping my tongue. This is a refreshing supremely enjoyable hefe that I could drink the day away. This Is the best hefeweizen I’ve drank to date and one I will continue to pick up when in season. There’s is in no way an overpowering clove presence like I’ve run into with many others. New Glarus hits another homerun. 9/19/07

bottle....aroma: scents of banana, cloves, wheat and sugary malt.....appearance: golden brown with fluffy white head....taste: bananas, cloves, wheat and bready along with other spices. nice creamy mouth feel....i enjoyed this one a lot more than my rating suggests. this is one quality hefe. would be my go to hefe if i had access to it all the time.

12 ounce bottle. Shaker glass. Cloudy yellow with a thin head. Aroma was pronounced banana and clove. This one was sharp and sweet with the typical wheat beer flavors of banana, clove and spices. The flavor was very robust and not bland like some wheat beers can be. The clove and spices stay with you for the entire beer, not like some that will tend to fade a bit as it warms. Definitely one of the better hefeweizens I’ve had and an American one at that.

Slightly cloudy yellow gold appearance, very thin smoky head. Smells like banana nut bread: bananas, pecans, cinnamon, maybe nutmeg? Flavor is not the chemical dullness I always notice in hefeweizens...this one has a nice spicy note that really brings out the banana. It’s almost sour, like tasting an unripe banana. Mouthfeel is as expected...average but with a touch of light body that I associate with most wheat-based beers. Really a drinkable beer to say the least. I agree with the previous rater: this IS the best hefeweizen I’ve had.