Redhook Hefe-Weizen

Brewed by Redhook Brewery
Style: Wheat Ale
Woodinville, Washington USA

A slightly burnt/parched wheat aroma -- grainy, without the musk associated with European weissen. It appears that every effort was made to make this middle of the road -- it does have sediment, and it’s unfiltered, but there are no pronounced esters or yeasts. Medium peachy gold, with a malleable white foam. Bready, parched grain flavor. A pretty solid palate. Clean drinking and a good compliment to the pork chops that I drank it with, but it’s nothing special. It really could have stood a little bit more acidity (lemon.) Clean, mild West Coast hops. Dinging it in appearance for an ugly label and a screw-off cap.

A definite American wheat--not necessarily a bad thing, but in this case, not really all that big a deal. OK flavor, no hops are discernable, and there none of the yeasty aftertaste that I don’t like from the German version (I like the fact that it doesn’t taste that way, but the claim on the bottle is that it does taste that way). My local bar has it on special-- same as Bud--which makes it special to me, but if I had to pay more.......

Not as cloudy as a usually wheat beer. Not very much on the taste side. Definitely better wheat beers available.

Average wheat beer. Nothing really made the beer stand out.

I think this used to be called ’WheatHook’. Anyway, it’s an above average brew, but isn’t very wheaty at all, by German standards. Try their Nut Brown, instead.

As with most Red Hook products, nice idea, but weak follow-through - a pale imitation of the better beers. This has a faint wheat note, weak, watery body. I’ve only had domestic wheat beers - Sam Adams, Sierra Nevada etc. but this one was entirely indistinctive and barely looks and tastes the part.

kind of boring, not even the wheat could kick it out of it’s slumber. fine with food, but that’s not a complement.

Wow, I thought it was a lot better than the rest of you. A good amount of yeast in the bottom with a nice whip of citrusy notes. Not much of a head. Of course it does not campare with Paulaner or franziskaner but definitely better than many American hefe-weizens.