Ramstein Classic

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

UGHHH! I’m comming off a Weihenstephaner hefe, and this is so messed up shit. The expiration date on the bottle says March but who knows what year it is. HAHA, yes, I was thinking this thing tastes so much like toasted bread, nothing like a german hefe and now i found out it’s a dunkelweizen which makes perfect sense. That being said, for the last 15 minutes i thought this was a normal hefe and that it was totally spoiled and fucked up and I thought i should pour it out. Now i realize it’s a dunkelweizen and that’s totally what I thought it tastes like so it’s legit. That being said, it’s not that great. 10 minutes later when i’m done...kind of a chore to finish. somewhat of a unpleasent beer to drink.

Draft... GBOA ’06... Clear caramel-colored ale with a small, very creamy, light tan head. Excellent retention. Chocolate and clove aroma and flavor. Well-balanced and a touch tangy. Medium-bodied and creamy with soft carbonation. Finishes gently sweet and spicy.

GBof A PA-on tap-pours a thick creamy light tan head and brown color. Aroma is banana, medium malt. Taste is banana, medium malt-caramel, spices-clove. OK carbonation.

Average wheat beer had at the Split Rock Beer Festival 11/19. Nothing too spectacular.

Sampled on draft at the HPWBC tasting room. The appearance was decent, dark brown, some cloudiness, but not extreme, the head about average, maybe a little weak? The aroma was coffee and roasted malts, hard to detect wheatiness underneath. The flavor also seemed to have a bit too much smoke/roast and dark malts, to the point where the wheat wasn’t as prominent as it could have been. Not a bad beer (I grabbed a sixer of it), but not among my favorites within style. Re-rate: from the sixer I picked up, not much has changed. The clove/phenolic character increased a bit (along with some carbonation), but this thing looked subpar, tasted too smoked, almost peat smoked, and had only minor wheat dryness as an accent. Too strong on the roasted and smoked malts.

bottle. Deep amber with a very small off white head, carbonation very light. Aroma is of light chocolate, caramel, banana, and spices. Taste is about the same. The carbonation was very light on this beer, knocking off a few points. Second six pack I bought from Ramstein and both were very undercarbonated. Would be much better with appropriate Co2 saturation.

Usually drink ales. I tried a few wheat beers in the past, but this one is exceptional. Great flavor with a nice brown color.

Sampled from growler provided by weeare138. Poured a dark brown color with a smaller sized off white head. Aromas of wheat, cloves, caramel, chocolate and a little on the musty side. Tastes of wheat, chocolate, and caramel. I found the tastes to be on the lighter and thinner side with a thin body.