 beermatrix (1497), Twin Cities, Minnesota, USA
Dec 20, 2007
Gorgeously opaqued in a heavy cloud of dark gold. Massive, fluffy, shiny, crunchy looking off-whitish foam sits and hardly moves from its place once its poured. Keeps a head about it for superior strength and length. Impressive. The lacing is covered in all sorts of thickly shelved webbings.
Big wheaty aroma with fine hints to banana, orange, pineapple, and other citrusy peels that are perhaps a bit over ripened and soggy. Quite a big and complexingly delight of fun fruityness on the nose.
Flavors are bold and ripe with fruity tropical punch and wheaty tang that start out well but pale out after a while and become a heavy faction of wheat toned tang and orangey/banana mush. Which isn’t bad mind you, but it seemed to lose its complexity a bit as it went along. But damn if it isn’t good. The extra pithy character of yeast and hops is quite unique and bright. Making for a nice tropical bite in the finish.
Feel is just over medium with a huge wheaty base and tang of tropical fruit goodness and partailly parching bite and bitteness of pith and peels. Big on the orange character with a twist of pine, grapefruit. lime, and lemon.
What a fun beer to enjoy. Big, fruity, wheaty, and hopped up with a delightful gleem of tropical sensations. A very nice concoction between Brooklyn Brewing and Schneider Weiss!
presario (2431), Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Oct 6, 2008 Bottle. Dark cloudy yellow with swirled sediment poured in. Foamy thin white cloud on top. Strong aroma of soft hops. Soaring hop flavour with a sour malt and alcohol. A little spice burn on the tongue. lasting light pepper note. Not overly aggressive but beautifully balanced with strong hops. Very smooth and drinkable.
larsniclas (3029), Gothenburg, Sweden
Oct 5, 2008 Bottled.
Hazy golden. Small, white head.
Loads of citrus; apricot and pineapples, in the aroma.
Very fruity and malty flavour. Some pepper ans slightly vinous.
BeerBelcher (744), Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA
Oct 5, 2008 I’ve been a fan of Schneider-Weisse for a long time now...American brewers haven’t been able (IMO) to emulate that balance of hop and spice...so I was excited to try a collaboration involving this brewer and an American one. And I was not disappointed, this beer offers the same balance of spice, hop, and fruit notes evident in other Schneider Weisse beers, but also offers some additional flavor notes. The clove and malt in this beer is balanced a bit by banana (isoamyl acetate?) other fruitiness...and with more caramel than I remember from other Schneider Weisse beers. Very good.
Appearance is amber or a dark gold. Aroma is malt, with cloves and some fruit and banana notes. Flavor is as I’ve described above. Mouthfeel is pretty thick, but not overly slick or sticky.
I would highly recommend this beer. I bought this at Discount Liquor in Milwaukee, based on a very good employee recommendation.
DougShoemaker (2612), Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Oct 2, 2008 Aroma of yeast, malt and citrus, cloudy golden/brown pours a big off-white head. Taste is pear, lemon, malt and yeast. Medium bodied, tongue tingle, man this is a great beer, but it seems to be a belgian strong?
Thank You Torontoblue.
Ungstrup (11353), Frederiksberg, Denmark
Sep 29, 2008 Bottled. An unclear dark golden beer with a thin orange head. The aroma is powerfully wheaty combined with sweet malty notes as well as medium notes of mango and lighter notes of banana. The flavor is sweet with strong notes of wheat and fruit - mango and oranges, leading to a dry wheaty finish.
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