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New Glarus Unplugged Imperial Weizen

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2823.89/5.03.86/5.0Special9.6%99.9Weizen
Commercial Description:
Do not waste time attempting to box this brew into some esoteric guide to styles. This is Dan’s bold creation. His passion for unfiltered Weiss collides with Cascade Hops inventing our Imperial Hefe-Weizen. Dry hopping boldly rules over Wisconsin red wheat and our special strain of Bavarian yeast. At almost 20 O.P. this is the super mac daddy of Weiss beers. Decoction mashing was followed by excessive dry hopping to create a fierce onslaught of clove, cinnamon and citrus all in this living beer. Don’t bother waiting to enjoy - the time is now.
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 Acknud (781), Morganfield, Kentucky, USA
3.9 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/105/58/105/514/20
Jul 16, 2008  
Pours cloudy golden with a medium frothy head. Very lacy. Aroma is very spicy. Taste of cloves and citrus hops. A touch of grapefruit peeks through.


brewcrew2002 (50), USA
3.6 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/104/57/103/516/20
Jul 15, 2008  
Poured a dark yellow with a large head, light aroma. fruity notes of orange, lemon, and hops.


 BrewCzar (108), St Louis, Missouri, USA
3.9 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/103/57/104/517/20
Jul 13, 2008  
Bottle pours cloudy orange with a medium white head. Aromas of orange and butterscotch. Begins sweet with hints of Orange, lemon, Clove, and Cinnamon. Finishes with slightly bitter hops and noticeable alcohol burn. Great beer!


 DragonStout (1380), Pataskala, Ohio, USA
3.8 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/104/57/104/516/20
Jul 10, 2008  
Poured a cloudy yellow color with a grapefruit nose.This was slightly hoppier than I prefer for hefeweizen, but it is an imperial.Flavor was grapefruit, hoppy and slightly bitter.I would like to revisit this beer again because it was interesting.


 mar (1878), Dallas, Texas, USA
3.4 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/104/57/103/513/20
Jul 8, 2008  
bottle thanks to iowaherkeye. murky gold pour with thin off white head. oranges, alcohol and bananas on the nose. not too thick on the palate and a very smooth flavor of fruits that finish quite smooth with a hint of clove. the alcohol isn’t too well hidden though.


 drywallman (228), Lake in the Hills, Illinois, USA
3.9 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/104/58/104/516/20
Jul 7, 2008  
This one poured in a dark orange manner with a pillowy head that dissipated quickly. I noticed lot of cloves (but not excessive) followed by the tempering of the cinnamon. The hops then rang through to finish refreshingly. It also went down fairly easily, although this is not meant to be a session beer.


 Glouglouburp (2839), Montreal, Quebec, Canada
3.3 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/103/56/103/513/20
Jul 6, 2008  
In short: An intense (not highly drinkable) very-spicy Weizen on steroids. Good but just too much for its own good.
How: Bottle 12oz, first batch, drank 4 months after bottling. From sunevdj, thanks a lot Sune
The look: Opaque peach color topped by a small white head
In long: Strong and complex nose, spicy, fruity and lots of hay. Taste is a lot of dry straws, some banana cake, bubble gum, a lot of cloves and a lot of other herbal spices, some crunchy white sugar, dry orange and lemon peels, a lot of dry bitter hops. Aggressive carbonation. Overall this beer is dry dry dry. 9.6% somewhat apparent. This is a very tasty brew, so tasty in fact that I’d even say this is an aggressive beer. Its intensity really turned me on with the first few sips but by the end of the bottle I thought the beer was a bit too much especially in the cloves and spices department. It’s a good beer but not a very good beer and certainly not an excellent beer like the current ratings indicate. But that’s how it goes on ratebeer: intensity=quality… But I’m rating beer, not sex.


 guyinchicago (528), marengo, Illinois, USA
3.8 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/104/57/104/515/20
Jul 4, 2008  
pours orange and hazy aromas of cloves and hops lots of hops tastes of hops wow very hoppy and fruit, cloves, a hefeweizen on steroids very powerful and bold



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