Shiner Hefeweizen

Brewed by Spoetzl Brewery (Gambrinus Company)
Style: Wheat Ale
Shiner, Texas USA

On tap at yardhouse. Cloudy yellow with creamy white head. Malty and bready aroma taste. Disappointing overall.

12oz bottle- A cloudy yellow body with a very small ring for a head. Aroma of citrus(oranges and lemons), wheat, and grass. Taste of a little grass with some sourness. Nothing like a hefe except possibly the appearance.

Date: June 12, 2003
Mode: Bottle
Source: Wild Wing Cafe, Marietta
Appearance: hazy orange, thin head
Aroma: light clove aroma
Flavor: rich light malt flavor, touch of weird orange character

Date: June 09, 2005
no orange, good malt, hefe?

Date: June 08, 2006
Source: Wild Wing, Marietta
creamy body, still no orange

Date: February 23, 2009
Mode: draft
a characterless wheat beer

Aroma: 5/10; Appearance: 4/10; Flavor: 5/10; Palate: 7/10; Overall: 10/20
Rating: 2.6/5.0
Drinkability: 7/10
Score: *4

Did not like this one. Pours a pale yellow color with a big bubbly head that quickly dissapates. Nose is sour and wheat like. Mouthfeel is odd and unpleasant and has an odd unbalanced bitter aftertaste. No thanks. In addition, I should add that this is completely disgusting and almost undrinkable. To call this beer a hefeweizen makes me want to slap the head brewer. I could go on and on about how angry this beer makes me but to be honest I am just going got say that there is no excuse for this.

(Tap) Pours a hazy pale yellow color with medium white head. Light citrus and bready aroma. Notes of grain, lemon and grass in the taste. Weak palate, to say the least. Overall, not a big fan of this beer.

The Shiner hefeweizen (bottle) is some light, filtered, generally nasty beer. The smell is heavy on the wheat, weak on the fruit, and even weaker on the citrus. The taste is pretty ripe, but not "ripe" like some good hefes, "ripe" like Busch (vaguely grassy and rotten). There is a little sourness, but it doesn’t have the refreshing crispness and bite of a standard summer brew. Of course, comparing this to a good hefe is really unfair as it’s not really a hefe at all, but I still thought this was pretty awful.

Tasted without the lemon. Poured a golden yellow. Head was extremely foamy but with no real lacing. Slight Hoppy aroma with a clean hops taste. As the beer warmed it developed a nice citrus aftertaste. Overall I’d probably drink this again.

very citrisy, couldy strong flavor of hops and taste of wheat. aroma of hop as in most microbrews. a decente microbrew