Olde Towne Hefe Weizen

Brewed by Olde Towne Brewing Company
Style: German Hefeweizen
Huntsville, Alabama USA

Blind tasting at Papsø’s
Cloudy blond color. Poor aroma, some plastic. Watery mouthfeel, some spices, quite dry final. Very boring.

Out of the 3 Olde Townes that I tried, this was the best. I am not usually a Hefe drinker but this one went down pretty well. Hazy golden pour. Aroma of cloves and wheat. Taste is typical of banana, wheat and cloves. Nothing special but drinkable.

Bottle shared by Lee at the Brick Store. Pours a cloudy yellow with a very short lived head that leaves no lacing at all. There is an odd sweet aroma with some light fruits and not much of the typical banana sweetness. There’s also some lemon tartness and a little spiciness, The taste is very sweet but not exactly as I expected. It’s got some bananas but there is an overwhelming fruity sweetness that seems a bit out of place. There’s no spices that I could tell. The mouthfeel is slick with little carbonation and subpar as far as I’m concerned. This is my second beer from Olde Towne and it doesn’t nearly live up to the previous effort I tasted. It’s an average-at-best hefe that’s cloyingly sweet and not extremely drinkable.

draft at brewery pours cloudy golden, white head. aroma and taste, bitter, light fruits, clove; spices and some banana overly yeasty and had a rancid mouthfeel. Just not that great. Just could not finish this one.

Bottle at Springslickers fish fry. Pour a hazy straw with small white head. Aroma of pale wheat malts and banana esters. Body and mouthfeel are way too thin for my tastes, even for the style. Overall, this just lacks the complexity and phenols of a great Hefeweizen. Average at best.

Bottle 355ml. @ Papsoes blindtasting. [ Bottle #1. ]
Hazy light to medium yellow orange color with a small, fizzy, fair lacing, mostly diminishing, off-white to white head. Aroma is light malty, wheaty, fruity, yeasty, rubber. Flavor is light moderate sweet with a average duration. Body is light to medium, texture is watery to oily, carbonation is soft to flat. [20090612]

@Noogfest High5-growler–pours a dissipating white head and cloudy yellow color. Aroma is banana/clove, wheat. Taste is banana/clove, wheat.

Noogfest High 5. The body was hazy yellow with a white head. The obviously banana and clove was right up front. The taste was banana peel, too woody for me. Light clove. Good for the style.