Weihenstephaner Hefeweissbier Dunkel

Brewed by Bayerische Staatsbrauerei Weihenstephan
Style: Dunkelweizen
Freising, Oberbayern, Germany

Bottle. Cloudy reddish-orange with a huge foamy white head. Aroma of banana and spice with a bit of caramel and pineapple. Soft and creamy body, fairly low carbonation. Flavour of banana and malt off the top, with some nice clove notes coming though along with a faint yeastiness in the finish. Flavour lingers very nicely, and builds in spiciness as it warms. Nice, I quite liked this.

Bottle. Cloudy brown with uberthick foamy head. Aroma of grilled banana, ginger ale, random tropical fruit. Thin, watery. Yeasty finish. Dry and light. Some dried banana flavors. Solid but seen better.

500ml bottle. Pours a cloudy dark amber with a billowy off-white head. Aroma is sweet and earthy, with notes of banana, hops, yeast, and grains. Taste is full-bodied and sweet, with a flavor of banana, brown sugar, spices, roasted malt, and grains -- long creamy finish as well. An interesting and unique brew.

Hazy amber with medium off white head. Sweet aroma with banana notes and yeast. Flavor likewise with wheaty notes.

50 cL bottle. Pours hazy deep orange with a slowly collapsing off white head. Mild roasted malt to a light wheaty and banana fruity aroma. Banana fruity flavour with a mild malty flavour. Ends light acidic to estery.

Bottle. Pours hazy brown with thick fluffy white head. Nice spicy nose and taste. Fine beer.

500ml. Pours hazy dark brown with light brown highlights. Amazingly dense, fluffy off-white head... just like the hefeweizen from weihenstephaner. Nose is caramel apple with some dirt and grass mixed in the bunch. Body is similar, adds a bit more sweetness and a viscous mouthfeel that really rounds out this beer well. Everyone has that first quirky beer that no else liked but you, this was that beer for me whilst growing up.

Rated:june 2007
Bottle brown, 500 ml
Appearance: Head is cloudy, creamy, very big, leaving some lacing, dirty white colour, body is full, hazy or almoast cloudy, mild, soft brown in colour.
Aroma: Creamy, banana, yeasts, malts, malted barley and wheat, very soft alcoholic aroma, almost non existant, a little bit toasty but very minute, rather typical aroma of wheat beer, some hints of mild chockolate.
Flavour: Very mild, the carbonation on palate is noticable, yeast, wheat, some toastyness rather than roastiness, beer is very mellow and mild, in flavour there is a trace of bisquites, some hints of chockolate, flavour is not harsh or strong.
Palate: Quite wheaty, tangy, some skunkness of malts, not much of wheat, rther poor, much worse as compar to Weihenstephaner Hefeweissbier. Aftertaste is rather poor and quite nasty.