Schneider Aventinus

Brewed by Weissbierbrauerei G. Schneider & Sohn
Style: Weizen Bock
Kelheim, Germany

Re-rate 7/6/2004. Served on tap in the "correct" glass. Tons of carbonation in a couldy brown body. Brown sugar, cloves in the aroma. The start of the flavor features wheat bread, brown sugar, and deep sweet malt. Finishes with maple leaf bitterness, butter, and plummy malt. Soft and supple mouthfeel from generous carbonation, but it's not harsh. A flavorful but smooth and gentle beer.

1999 brew
Short-lived, fizzy head. Very carbonated. I get a plum and yeast taste with a lot of sweetness. Dunno if this one was too old, but I really didn't enjoy it. 5 / 2 / 5 / 3/ 9

At first whiff, I smelled some Belgian yeast and was about to say that it smelled more Belgian than German. However, at 2nd whiff, I clearly smell bananas and wheat like a typical weissbier. I don’t detect any clove, however. Wonderful, murky, dark reddish, orange body with a huge, off-white, almost light tan head. Head dissapates quickly but leaves a thin layer of head on top. Flavor is outstanding. This is what a weissbier should be. The alcohol is well hidden, but it very well accentuates the flavor in this brew. The alcohol definitely hits you as you make your way through the 500 ml bottle. Sweet, banana, molasses sugar. After having stellar Schneider brews in the Aventinus, the Aventinus Weizen Eisbock, and the weissbier, I now hold the brewery in as high a regard as Weihenstephaner.

Pours a ruddy red/brown with a ample sized head. Tastes of hoppiness, caramels, yeast, and fruity. A solid beer throughout, finished strong with a nice bitterness.

Dark amber of color with a nice off white head. An aroma of wheat, fruits and yeast. A flavor of wheat, caramel and sweet fruits.

nice weizen bock.... pours out dark brown color with a hint of sweetness in the smell. the carbonation was actually mind blowing, it fizzed more than a soft drink! but it didnt effect the taste and make it taste like champagne, so that was ok. taste was sweet and sort of malty with no presence of hops in any way shape or form. quite a nice beer, that i could drink alot of. seemed more of a session beer than anything else.

An interesting very dark golden brew that presents a lasting cloudy top. It’s aroma is complex with citrus, banana and yeast. Despite it’s high alcohol, it’s firm, clean, crisp and drinkable with strong weisse beer flavor chock full of yeast, tang, and citrus, with alcohol and malt hues.

Huge lasting tan head. Murky brown body (not clear like in the picture). Aroma of wheat, clove, chocolate and caramel. Flavour is intense dominated by wheat but I also notice a strong banana presence. Finish is extremely smooth and leaves a nice coating of flavour in the mouth; of course until you take another gulp. A beauty and perhaps legend.

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