Schwartz Brewery Wheat Beer

Brewed by Schwartz Brewery (ex Macquarie Hotel Brewery)
Style: Spice/Herb/Vegetable
Sydney, Australia

on tap @ Holiday Inn Sydney, renamed as Summertime Beer. just a basic wheat with some spices, nothing to write home about.. lol... this is easy drinking and goes well in the southern hemisphere.

Draught at the Schwartz Brewery. Compliments from the brewer. I had a chat to the brewer about this one and it is actually a herb/spiced ale, flavored with: lemon myrtle, grains of paradise (an African spice), orange rind, cloves, coriander and occasionally ginger, most of these where prominent and contrasted well in the brew . Arrived hazy golden orange with a small, frothy, white head which was average lasting. Aroma was of musky wheat/yeast with banana lollies, orange peel and some coriander. A slightly sour/tart bitterness (a good one) with sweet yeasty/bready malts, orange peel, coriander, cloves and hints of lemon zest. Medium bodied with soft to medium carbonation (oddly enough), a quite creamy mouthfeel and a great finish. A great herb/spiced wheat beer, my favorite from the Schwartz brewery, I highly recommend it!

Draught at the brewpub. Clear golden, small head. Light orangey/spicy hop aroma. Dryish with clean, sharp mouthfeel. The salty bitter finish has notes of metal. Unbalanced.

Well, it’s got a great name... otherwise I’m not so sure. Juicy sweetness, perhaps a bit of wheat malt, quite bitter with a lot of corn chip flavour. Tastes like a megalager; they can’t be using a wheat yeast, unless being served at -1C drives away all the yeast character.

On tap at the Olim’s Hotel (Braddon, Canberra!). Tasty, refreshing wheat with clear sweet clove flavours. Nice hazy yellow, reasonable head but a tad too sour on the finish for my concept of the ideal hefe.

A well-made Aussie hefeweizen. Looked good in the glass: a hazy yellow with a thick, lasting head. The serving temperature inhibited the aroma (couldn’t pick any banana at all) but there was plenty of wheat and a tart, lemony character. The expected banana notes emerged in the flavour when it started to warm. It’s otherwise quite citric and sour in the finish - really gets the juices flowing. A good summer quencher, I’d say. Palate was a little too fizzy and on the thin side. (On tap at the brewpub)

on tap at the brewpub although it took a while to find where you could actually get their beers. slightly murky yellow, come banana and clove aroma, a little sticky and sweet but with some pleasant tart wheat to balance it out. not a bad effort

Tap at the Macquarie Hotel, Sydney. By far their best beer. Cloudy yellow color with a decent white head. Nice banana aroma, with some wheat and other spices. Apparently they didn’t know you could put a lemon in your beer. Goes down nice and smooth. Sweet taste, tangy as well. I drank many of these one night. One of the better beers I’ve had in Australia.