Peak Brewery Alb Weiss

Brewed by Peak Brewery
Style: German Hefeweizen
Masterton, Wairarapa, New Zealand

Bottle, purchased at Regional Wine & Spirits in Wellington. Pours a cloudy honey gold with a thick white meringue of a head that remained until the finish and left complex lacing down the whole glass. Aromas of banana, vanilla, subtle spices and wheat. Creamy mouthfeel with delicious banana, lemon, vanilla flavours. Finish has a tartness and mild bitterness with an aftertaste suggestive of unroasted almonds. Complex and very good.

500ml bottle. Pours a cloudy golden orange, good white head. Yeasty, banana nose with a little hint of orange. Not getting the sulphur smell. Mouth feel and taste is a little weak, but it’s a nice balance of banana and yeast. Not the best example of style but drinkable.

(Bottle 50 cl) Clear, orangey golden with a huge, rough and bubbly, white head. Lots of yeast and diacetyl in the aroma and some banana. Medium body with a fairly high carbonation and some sweet banana notes. There’s a distinct yeastiness and lots of diacetyl. The finish is dry. Hefe is a diffucult style to make a great brew of, but for a tiny brewery this is not at all a bad attempt. 190208

Tasted 17/08/2007. 500ml bottle from "Lounge", Carterton. Pale yellow-gold, very hazy. Nose isa concoction of sulphur, wheat, cornflour, glue and a little orange. Very tart - wheat-foccussed - in the mouth, with a sprtizy mouthfeel and more fruit and sulphur in the fnish. Lacking the banana and clove of a traditional hefeweizen and appears to be a little problematic in the secondary fermentation department (if not primary).