Sierra Nevada Kellerweis Hefeweizen

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

12 oz bottle, though counting on running into a tap somewhere. Egg yolk looking pour as sediment haze is inconsistent, and slowly dissipates. Lemonade yellow to light. With big silky tight-bubbled white head. Aroma of spice, banana, some bubblegum esters and a wheaty-malt base. Some yeasty pizza-dough. Mouth is well. Light, thin, playful. Banana, spice, upfront. Citrusy orange, wheaty mid. Spicy, crisp hop finish. Hefes not a favorite style of mine, but this is pretty satisfying. Good effort by SN.

12 oz. bottle from Plaza Liquors - Pours a hazy light golden color with a two finger thick off white head. Light lacing. Aroma is esters and spice. Flavor is light citrus, esters, lightly sweetened malt, light spice, and a bit of yeast. Light to medium body. A nice beer.

Solid brew. One of the most satisfying beers I’ve ever had. First thing I noticed was the warmed banana aroma drifting out of the bottle. Pours a hazy yellow with chunks of live yeast still drifting about (slightly unsettling). First taste to hit the tongue is banana and wheat, followed by yeast, then spicy cloves. The suspended yeast gives a nice, velvety mouthfeel.

Pours a hazy yellow/straw gold with a thick and decently long-lived white, rocky head that leaves a stripes and swaths of lace all over the glass. Tiny bubbles trickle up unendingly. The aroma is very doughy and yeasty bread with some perfumey character and soft fruit - like undercooked banana bread. The flavor is malty and wheaty with a nice floral and fruity ester profile that complements the sweet malts. At mid-tongue there is a pleasant balancing bitterness that is fairly neutral, slightly spicy. The finish is dry with some grainy pilsner malt notes gaining traction along side the wheaty, estery, floral, and lightly sweet flavors that are throughout. The mouthfeel is crisp in carbonation - though not too sudsy (perhaps a touch less carbonation texture than expected) with a light graininess and a medium-full body. Overall, a very enjoyable wheat beer. It’s no Wiehenstephaner, but it is very German tasting and very drinkable and tasty.

Nice pour, good head, lasting. Hazy gold in color. Nose was nice enough, estery, phenols, fruity light bananna notes. Light bodied, lightly oily. Typical Hefe flavors, babanna, citrus and yeast, light doughy notes. Sorta pastey finish. Umm yeah, nice Hefe. Just yer typical Hefe albeit a well done American one. Props to SN for the swell attempt. Meh.

Bottle straight out of the SL coolers, purchased as a sixer, consumed the first bottle on premises. A darned nice pour, great head and lacing, hazy cloudy golden-yellow colored pour. The aroma was bananas, esters, light spicing, well-balanced. The flavor was solid, great balance, perhaps one of the best American Hefe’s out there. I like these to err a tad on the spice side, so that was the only thing that dropped this from the best of its class. A great job by SN!

Bottle: Effervescent cloudy orange with a dense thick white head. Nice dryish aroma- mild phenolics- wheaty with mild clove and a touch of dough. Nice creamy yet crisp feel. I like that there’s no an overload of banana. When it warms there’s a soft lemon & vanilla chaacter to it. Has a bready base with some spicy phenolics giving off mild clove notes. A very nice and individualistic Hefe.