Pyramid Haywire Hefeweizen

Brewed by Pyramid Breweries
Style: Wheat Ale
Portland, Oregon USA

A deep yellow couldy hefeweizen with a small head. Medium body. Citris and pure wheat aroma. Medium-strong flavor of lighter wheat malts, and clean yeast, and pure water. The beer has great mouthfeel and taste. Just the right amount of bite. Abundant, tight lacing. Finish is refreshing and clean. One of the better hefeweizens.

This is nice & drinkable, but fairly mediocre & I tend to agree with the classification that this is not really like a true hefeweizen. It is gold, cloudy, with a thin, lasting white head and weak lacing. The aroma is raspberries - sweet and fruity. The taste seems dry at first, but soon becomes more noticeably sweet. There is no bitterness. It is somewhat fruity over a wheat base, sowewhat thin and tingly palate, and a definite marshmallow aftertaste. Approachable and smooth, it is pleasing and tasty but not great.

pours a nice cloudy orange brown with a fluffy white head. looks like real apple cider.aroma is metallic, bready and citric. flavor is the same. light bodied. after taste reminds me of the flavor of puking up beer.

A standard, if unimpressive, hefeweizen. A bit too sweet for my tastes, but I always have preferred dunkelweizens anyway. Worth a try at least.

bread in a bottle, yeasty character, which I prefer more in my belgians than in strong dose in a hefe. This one is crisp yet doughy from a bottle. Not sure how they manage that. Kinda like having a tart funnel cake. Despite the grandios pyramids on the label, this one amounts to more like a crop circle of a hefeweizen.

if one is into ’chiefs’ then this is a goodun... nice and smooth and quite refreshing, though Paulaner is the real king of this style

Are you kidding me? This heinous orange concoction states it is brewed from a "Bavarian-inspired recipe." Yeah, maybe a recipe for saurkraut but not for a wheat beer. Unfortunately I can’t find a domestic wheat beer fit to kiss the posterior of any Bavarian weizenbier and that’s a shame because I want to buy American.

Tap. Here’s another random fruity pebbles-tasting imitation hefeweizen... typically served with a lemon unless you specifically ask the bartenders not to. Overly citrusy (I highly doubt that it’s entirely due to the yeast, I swear they put some chemicals in this stuff...), but definitely wheaty. Not very intense flavors. Pretty light body. When you drink this beer, try not to think of all the actually good beers you could be drinking at that moment.