 jasonp (1513), Sterling/Dulles, Virginia, USA
| 3.6 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 7/10 | 4/5 | 7/10 | 4/5 | 14/20 |
Nov 24, 2007 Bottle. Neat, glowing, flourescent yellow with a white head. Lemon, grass, hay and light flowers in the nose - american wheat yeast strain. Flavor has notes of lemon, some wheat, an ample level of herbal noble hops. grassy. Pleasantly sweet. Full bodied with moderate carbonation. Imagine a high gravity American Wheat and this is what you got. I disagree with the catergorization of German Hefe on a few levels.
¾ (4999), Colorado, USA
| 3.3 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 6/10 | 4/5 | 6/10 | 4/5 | 13/20 |
Nov 14, 2007 Pours properly cloudy with a well-formed white head. The nose is soft and muddled, heavy on the clove and wheat scents, with an almost marshmallow fluffiness but more weighed down by the heavy body. Flavor-wise it’s rich and sticky with a light bite of spice, basically similar to so many other imperial hefeweizen, but it has a nice chewiness and a flavor that centers mostly on the wheat with less of a spice and clove presence. Simple, I guess, but not bad or undrinkable.
kmweaver (2481), Sebastopol, California, USA
| 3.2 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 7/10 | 3/5 | 7/10 | 3/5 | 12/20 |
Nov 4, 2007 22oz bottle, courtesy of Stine. Thanks, Eben! Pours a hazy, whitish-golden color; thin, off-white head with minimal retention. Plenty of bananas and cloves and sticky sugar in the aroma. Medium-to-full mouthfeel: viscous bananas and belgian sugar; some dry yeast and cloves, but overall a very sticky hefeweizen; hefeweizens shouldn’t be sticky. Lengthy, bananas and dry clove finish; plenty of sugar.
Prcaus (159), New Jersey, USA
| 3.5 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 8/10 | 4/5 | 6/10 | 4/5 | 13/20 |
Nov 4, 2007 22 oz bottle Discount Liquor Voorhees NJ- Pours a nice clear yellow coloring. Smells are of orang/hop smells and tastes. Finishes really well.
Stine (1380), St. Paul, Minnesota, USA
| 3 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 7/10 | 3/5 | 5/10 | 3/5 | 12/20 |
Nov 4, 2007 Poured from a 22 oz. Clear, bright yellow. Sesame seeds, orange and vodka, ginger and vanilla on the nose. Distant suggestions of pine, alcohol, asian spices. Hot flavor offers allegiance to banana rum, accented by candy sugar and clove spice; the light base imbued with this level of alcohol effectively suffocates the delicate nuances of wheat. Simple and tepid, but inoffensive. Prickly in the mouth, and overly weighty. Dull, and uninspiring, but reasonable enough.
clingman71 (258), Centerville, Ohio, USA
| 3.6 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 7/10 | 4/5 | 7/10 | 4/5 | 14/20 |
Nov 4, 2007 Bottle. Poured a golden color, slight unfiltered wheat cloud/haze, with a white head. Aroma of wheat and banana. It has the flavor (wheat, banana, clove, slightly spicy) that you expect from a Hefe, but a "Heavy" bigger Hefe, I expected a little more. Southern Tier has set the bar high with this series of beers, this one, while very good, is not quite up to the level of some of their other offerings.
beachbum25 (800), Powellville, Maryland, USA
| 1.4 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 4/10 | 2/5 | 2/10 | 2/5 | 4/20 |
Oct 28, 2007 22 oz bomber-Poured a orange color w/no head. Faint wheat aroma. Faint wheat flavor w/a touch of lemon & spice, but not much else. Beer was absolutely flat; no carbonation whatsoever. This had to be a bad bottle; I can’t imagine this beer is supposed to be this way, especially based on other reviews. This was a new arival where I ordered it so it wasn’t improperly stored @ the
bar/store. Bartender tried it & we poured it out; he said the same thing "I’ve never had this beer, but I can’t imagine it’s supposed to taste like that". They didn’t even charge me for it. Had to be a bad bottle. I’ll rerate it if I get an opportunity, but this is how ths one tasted. They had several other Southern Tier brews there; this one made me reluctant to try them.
Lowe1983 (1029), Fairborn, Ohio, USA
| 3.6 | Aroma | Appearance | Flavor | Palate | Overall | | 7/10 | 3/5 | 7/10 | 3/5 | 16/20 |
Oct 27, 2007 Pours a golden color with a white head. Aroma is of bubblegum, lemon, cloves, wheat, and yeast. Not much of an alcohol aroma. Flavor is pretty sweet with bubblegum, lemon, and cloves. Finishes dry with the wheat, yeast, and slight hint of alcohol warming. Not my favorite from Southern Tier but still pretty good.
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