Weihenstephaner Hefe Weissbier

Brewed by Bayerische Staatsbrauerei Weihenstephan
Style: German Hefeweizen
Freising, Oberbayern, Germany

Bottle: Deep golden, hazy with a firm almost creamy white head; very solid sweet-fruity (oranges, lemons) nose with some phenolic, yeasty and wheaty undertones; medium bodied; robust sweet-sourish flavour with a tinge of bitterness; moderate sweet-fruity-wheaty finish, balanced by bitterness and tartness in the aftertaste. First-class Weizen.........

Rating is better of two ratings
rerate: (7-4-7-3-14=3.5)
Caramel aroma. Toffee taste, banana. As one would hope from a hefe.
rerate of: (6-4-7-3-12=3.2)
500ml bottle (Gallows Bird, Espoo, Oktoberfest 2008)
This is one of my favourite hefe-weizens. However, I was pretty boozed up by the time I decided to knock this one back, and it wasn’t refreshing enough for me. The aroma was the usual toffee and banana, but the palate was sticky, and the taste was so packed full of caramel it was simply not crisp enough. I’ll have no problem rerating this in the future though.

Very tasty brew. Cloudy golden yellow color. Decently spicy (clove and yeast) with a very lemony flavor. Hint of banana as well. Smooth and well balanced. Has a tingling tartness. Yeast/spice flavors in the after taste; fairly dry finish. Mmmmm.

This is a very good food beer. Well balanced spices that will not over-power. A pleasant aroma of banana and cloves. One of the best hefe weizen I’ve had,

How have I not tried this yet? maybe because it’s a boring wheat beer. Well, I can admit when I’m wrong, because this is delicious! Poured a cloudy apricot color with a nice white dissipating head. Aroma was cloves, lemon, banana and some spice. Taste was much the same, with banana bread and a terrific semi dry finish. This beer excells in it’s balance and has no noticable flaws. Best Hefe I have ever had!

Pours a cloudy pale golden color with a nice sized foamy head that doesn’t last. Aroma of bread, spice and banana. Flavor starts off with the sweet banana and then you get the malts and spice. Nice carbonation from middle to end. Very smooth. Nice hefe. Ceebs 25 gives a pretty good description of this one.

06.02.2004, 0,5l Bottle. The colour is hazy yellow. The beer smells nice and has a nice aroma. The head is small and there is little carbonation. Aftertaste is a little weak.

500ml bottle. BB 21.1.09. Poured into official weizen glass with reasonably big fluffy white head atop a slightly cloudy golden body. Plenty of banana on the nose, quite citrusy with a good deal of clove, vanilla and bread coming through. Carbonation is fairly lively, creamy texture, smooth full body with a hint of refreshing citric tartness. Unripe banana and lemon peel seems to be the best way to describe what I taste on the body straightup. A bready maltiness takes over bringing pepper and clove, with some sharpness and dryness lingering on the finish. Not as good as remember...but what beers are! Excellent hefeweizen regardless, not overdone and I think that may just be the key.