Pyramid Haywire Hefeweizen

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

Draught. Pours orange hazy, with creamy white head. Wheat malt and citrus in aroma. Flavor is wheaty, but not yeasty at all. They shouldn’t be calling this hefeweizen when it is an American wheat.

decent beer from a brewery that usually is very good. not a great hefe but not something to pour out for the homies either..

A orangish yellow nontransparent wiht little to zero head. Not much of anything.

Golden yellow color. Pale white head and hazy. Light and distinctly wheat, but missing some crispness and fruit flavor that I was hoping for.

Enjoy by date 05/2005, Sampled March 2005
Pours a hazy light amber to gold color. It is topped by a frothy one-finger thick off white colored head. The aroma of this beer is dominated by the yeast that was mixed in. I get notes of bread, and yeast as well as soft notes of lemon and fresh cut grass from the wheat malt. As I smell the aroma a bit deeper a nice lightly toasted biscuit notes comes through, as well as perhaps a hint of banana type esters.

The taste is spritzy from the carbonation, and actually a bit spicy, though in a very clean way. The taste is softly fruity with hints of lemon, apple, and perhaps some soft pear. By and large though this beer is quite clean. I think most of the character comes from the yeast that was mixed in. There is a slight fullness and perhaps an astringent note, as well as the soft fruitiness that I attribute to the yeast.

This is a nice refreshing brew, quite simplistic, and light on the palate. You really cannot ask for more from a standard American Wheat beer. I really recommend adding the yeast on the bottom of the bottle to this beer, it adds some much needed flavor and complexity. Having said this, I would much prefer a German style Hefeweizen or a Belgian style Wit over this.

ceraintly not the best hefeweizen i've had, but still faitly good, saw it on the menu while on vacation in las vegas, decided to try it (didnt know it was a hefe, and from the description the waitress gave me, I thought it was going to be a corona clone, and that scared me, but i decided to try it), was served with a lemon. not great, but certainly worthwhile (especially when the only other beer on tap worth getting is guiness)

Courtesy of my cousin, Tim. Pours a hazy yellow golden honey with a medium sized white head. Weak aroma of wheat with a hint of banana. Taste is watery and wheaty with a honey banana flavor. Average.

Okay, here’s something to get out of the way so there’s no misleading: I drank this straight out of the bottle. So I didn’t have much to go on for aroma, head and appearance. Let’s just say I was intimidated into forgoing the glass. Reminds me of Widmer Bros. Heffy with a little bit of citrus added in. Kind of bready and nondescript, except for the aforementioned citrus and fruits that provoked a little bit of thought. Not my style, but I think I’d keep some handy for the friends. UPDATE - have had several more since and I rather like them, except the one I just had was really watery. Bad batch?