Ramstein Blonde

Brewed by High Point Brewing Company
Style: German Hefeweizen
Butler, New Jersey USA

Looked and smelled like apple cider, the kind made in an old fashioned barrel not the watered down stuff you find in the supermarke. Poured this orange/pumpkin yellow color with some sediment. Taste was tart with some sense of apricot or peaches in the mix, with this tang of tartness at the end.

Murky yellow body with brown showing through in the middle. Huge ripe banana aroma with hints of wheat, pear, and spice. The flavor is banana and some apple with a touch of bitter anise in the aftertaste.

The Ramstein Blonde pours a cloudy golden color. It had a very small fizzy head, that disappeared very quickly.

Its aroma is some bananas, yeast, and spicy cloves.

The taste is sweet malt and some subtle banana and other fruitiness initially. It has a slightly spicy clove finish, with an almost sweet aftertaste.

The beer is medium bodied, but I was surprised at the total lack of carbonation.

Overall, it is a nice, easy drinking wheat beer. The low carbonation hurts it some. I don't like the banana / beer combo, but it was pretty subtle in this beer. Thanks to Probiere for the trade!

Opaque amber body with medium beige head. Aroma is sweet banana, some raisin, wheat, light clove. Taste is sweet, banana, wheat, finishing anise. Highly carbonated, tart, with medium body.

Not as spicy as I'd like, but the palette is full and refreshing, with a round mouthfeel and hints of banana. Not the best I've had but a good choice nonetheless.

Clear deep golden in color, very little head. The cloves really come out of this one. I can't find any of the apple character that the label advertises, the cloves just dominate. Medium body, some mouthfeel, but it is not thick. A little bitterness initially fades to a sweetness with some fruity tones added in. I'm glad I'm local to this brewery.

12 oz bottle. Bright golden, minimal head (esp. for a wheat). Nose light banana-milk. Simple, smooth on the tongue, banana sweet, light yeast, no bitterness. Good body overall, light but not too thin.

Sunshine peering through a primo banana plantation and clove sprinklers...Headless, laceless weizen which is quite simple but very tasty with a dry yeasty spell in the end...A bit more carbonation and wheat would maybe give it more head and a creamier body...