Richbrau Hefeweizen

Brewed by Richbrau Brewing Co.
Style: German Hefeweizen
Richmond, Virginia USA

AWESOME! Silky smooth with a milkshake-like consistency... w/just the right amount of everything. Excellent banana & clove flavors too! I was impressed... and surprised that they’d brew such a ’big’ Hefe. Fairly strong (you can’t really taste the alcohol - but you can feel it), which is uncommon with Hefeweizens, but who cares - I loved it. This beer is what I’d call a ’full-bodied’ wheat beer.

A pleasant surprise. Hazy lemon yellow, slight head. Nice aroma of lemon and cloves. Grainy wheat flavor gives way to a slightly sour, quenching beer with some nice phenols going on, clove, lemon, and slight banana. This was a really nice hefe.

Draught @ Old Dominion Beer Festival 2005: Very cloudy, opaque yellow with a medium frothy white head that lasts. I was pretty excited to see that they definitely were not filtering this one. Aroma has banana, clove, bubblegum, sweet fruity yeast. They definitely didn’t hold back with the yeast on this one, and I like them for it. Taste is light banana & clove, with sweet but not cloying wheat, and has generous helpings of yeast. Full bodied, moderate carbonation, rich & creamy texture. This was one of my favorites at the festival, though it seems many other ratebeerians and also my friend disagree with me, it may be that I was just so excited to see an unfiltered Hefe in a sea of pale ales.

Cloudy, unfiltered appearance. Has all the characteristics of the Bavarian-style hefe's: lots of wheat and a yeast that imparts a good, strong banana and clove aroma and taste. Aftertaste is not quite as smooth as the better known German brands, but still a very good beer.

on tap-pours a white head and cloudy yellow color. Aroma is clove, banana, lemon, wheat. Taste is clove, banana, lemon, wheat, nicely balanced. OK effervescence. Easy drinking.

Banana-clovey esthery aroma. Perfect cloudy look with nice tight white head. Good wheat malt taste also good yeasty falvors esp. on aftertaste. Surprisingly full-bodied.

(ODBF04) Opaque grapefruit juice body topped by white head. Aroma is banana, light clove. Taste is well-balanced banana and clove, finishing lemon. Light body, medium carbonation, moderately crisp, Nice beer.

I am a wheat beer fan and this was a good hefe...golden and hazy in appearance with a slight head...aroma and flavor of bananas and other frutis...very refreshing nice beer.