Weihenstephaner Hefeweissbier Dunkel

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

500 ml bottle. Slightly murky,brown beer, with a terrific tan head.( tight and bubbly). Very wheat filled aroma, some toffeeish malts. Nice flavor profile, semi-sweet milky almost maltiness, then a good strong wheat mouthful, can barely detect hops in the finish, overall very nice and well balanced. Very good palate, quite thick for the style and a pleasant after taste. Good drinking beer.

Suprising for a dunkel. Maybe I misunderstood what a dunkel was. Tasted much like a white ale with the bitterness of some kind of fruit peel. Perhaps orange peel. Very sharp but a lasting creaminess. Head is thick, grey/white, and never fully diminishes. Some lacing, but minimally noticeable. I expected more body from a dunkel, but still a nice beer if you want something light and sharp. Lots of cloves, too. Almost reminds me of Aventinus. This one bore the mark 8167.

Bottle. Light brown dunkel with decent head. Aroma is very wheaty and slightly sweet. Flavor is very sweet and wheaty... Decent dunkel.

Bottle, Huge light brown head, mostly lasting. Light brown hazy body. Coriander aroma. Medium body. A bit flat.

So this is another beer that I found buried in a box of singles in my store back from at least ’04 in very poor, to say the least, storage conditions. The last one was pretty good though, so here goes. Appearance and aroma are certainly still there. Mahogany pour with a tan head, with a light but pleasant aroma caramelized bananas, and slight but present oxidation. Alas, the flavor is gone and severely oxidized.. Not really bad, but the damage is clear. Light, earthy, dirt laden caramel notes are all that are left. Can’t say that it is bad, but I am positive this beer had more to it in it’s prime. Palate is medium/full with lingering earthy flavors. Well, this seems to be going fairly well so I think I’ll have to continue my experiment of poorly cellared vintage ales that I have found in the depths of my store.

Very similar to the sweet taste of the hefeweizen leicht, but with a little more substance, thus, i found this beer to be quite the pleasant amalgamation of sweetness and bitterness

500mL bottle purchased from Bauer Wines in Boston. Pours a murky, muddy brown with good head. The head does fade and there is little lacing. The aroma isn’t overly strong, but then again I don’t seem to be smelling all that much these days. The flavour is sadly weak. There’s some OK wheatiness, but it fades quicker than I would like, and there isn’t much in the way of the banana flavours that I like in a good weizen. That being said, this may be one of my first dunkelweizens, so perhaps those are different.

Pours a clouded gold brown with no head. Nose is slightly sweet in a banana kind of way. That is basically the prevalent fragrance that hits you the whole time. Bananas. Big fields of them. Flavor is smooth and a bit mild, but even. There is that hefe typical character there, but a strong banana skin profile to it as well, just like the nose. Feel is smooth on the mouth. Definitely drinkable. A really good brew that is worth trying.