Sierra Nevada Kellerweis Hefeweizen

Brewed by Sierra Nevada Brewing Company
Style: German Hefeweizen
Chico, California USA

12 oz bottle: Aroma is bubble gum, orange, slight yeast, and some coriander. Appearance is a cloudy almost apple cider like look to it but a bit lighter and more yellow. Taste is bubble gum, coriander, light citrus and yeast. Palate is carbonated with a slight spicy aftertaste. Overall, he a pretty decent Hefe that not overly hoppy like Sierras Porter or Stout. Cheers!

Nice hazy light pumpkin orange. White head that lasts. Smells of fruit, specifically bananas. Nice light wheat smell. Tastes of fruits and spicy bananas. A little to sweet.

12 oz. bottle pours a rich, melted-buttery yellow, opaque with a creamy white head that leaves sparse, sticky lacing as it melts. Initial aroma is of stinky bellybutton lint (wtf IS that???) that warms up to a wheaty, spicy (corriander? cloves?) aroma. Hearty body with a malt and wheat front palate, a yeasty sort of middle and a finish of that spice again with just a touch of lemon. Nice hefe with good body and expanded palate that I didn’t expect. More complex but still an easy drink. Personally, I’d dig this with spaghetti with sausage-marinara sauce and a huge chunk of really garlicky garlic bread.

Clear gold color with a medium head. Nice aroma of just over-ripened bananas. Same strong banana flavor, lots of wheat. The cloves don’t come out much. Almost lemony at the finish. Really solid.

Bottled, courtesy Narnad. Moderately hazy yellow-orange with a small, bright white head that’s mostly diminishing. Clove and banana nose with underlying tangy wheat and a touch of lemon. Mildly yeasty/doughy flavor, wheat tanginess rather high with mild-to-moderate sour lemon/peach fruit highlights. Finish is dry and tangy. Solid, but I wasn’t wowed.

Have been waiting for this for a month and had to come all the way out to New Jersey for a bottle. Big estery nose on cap open, heavy banana and wheat, lighter cloves. Lemon-citrus and yeast. Pale yellow with a large, creamy white head that clings and laces well. Body is thin and mouthfeel is smooth and creamy, seemingly no carbonation despite the large head. Watery banana and lemon, but they’re right, there is some complexity here, with a touch of spice and bitter pretzel. Pale malt and strengthening clove. The complexity is not quite as advertised, but this is sweet and ridiculously repeatable - easy to down a pitcher or two every night.

A cloudy pour that reminds us of this beer being unfiltered. There is a bit of head on this one, about one finger. On the aroma, there is a fair amount of bananbread and cloves. Definitely a hefeweizen. On the initial flavor all of these aromas come through, but the body is also a bit fuller which whirls these flavors around for a bit of complexity. Though the fruit-like flavors from a typical hefeweizen are present they are a bit more muted and don’t jump out quite as much as in a typical wheat beer. Overall, I would say this is a great beer for the summer but in general a good wheat beer if you don’t want something that is too light (definitely no lemon to be served with this one).

Pours cloudy with half an inch of head. Medium bodied. On the aroma I get bread, banana, cloves and a couple of other subtle fruit nuances. On the palate I am getting bread, banana, some cloves, spice and candied fruits as well. Great beer for the summer!