Weihenstephaner Xan Hefe-Weissbier

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

A dark orange beer with a huge white lazing head. The aroma is sweet wheaty with notes of banana. The flavor is wheaty with notes of oranges as well as hints of hops on a very dry background. But the body is thin.

(Bottle 33 cl) I had feared yet another thin and bland designer/yuppie Hefe with more emphasis on bottle design than what’s actually inside. But luckily I was terribly wrong. The special feature about this Hefe is apparently that the Xanthohumol from the hops is preserved (a powerful anti-oxidant, but "scientists believe you have to drink about 120 gallons of beer - or roughly 1,300 12-ounce bottles - every day to reap the benefits"!) Anyways, the beer is dark amber, slightly hazy with a handsome, creamy, tall, off-white head. Fruity banana aroma, with a soft almost cream-like mouthfeel. Short, dry hoppyness in the finish. Quite lovely. 201005

Bottle, 5.4%. Very nice spicy aroma with lots of clove. Almost clear grey copper colour. Big, stable white head. The flavour is dominated by clove with a little sweetness and a little underlying yeast. Low, but not totally absent bitterness.

Bottled. Hazy orange coloured with a huge off white head. Fruity aroma with notes of bananas and spices. Fruity flavour with notes of malts and spices. A bit watery.

Orange brown color, almost clear. Chalky and flowery aroma. Vinous, somewhat milky, herbal and hoppy flavor. Some banana, but the fruit is not too apparent. Good weizenbier.

Dark hazy golden color, light sweet fruity aroma and taste, medium body, light fruity finish.

cloudy very dark orange colour, nice creamy beige head with a beautiful lacing; robust banana aroma with notes of honey, some tartness and a high carbonation; decent malt body; moderately dry finish with more banana notes - really pleasant

Fully hazy amber-yellow beer with olive shine; pink-amber huge head, slowly collapsing. Caramel, lots of banana, bit of nutmeg - and, indeed, a lot of hops - a hopextract, maybe. Banana, nutmeg, bread sour mash for a sourish taint. Finish is more sweet, bananamush-like. No hops in the taste. Rather slick mouthfeel, bit oily, medium bodied. This beer - in itself a middle-of-the-road Hefeweizen - is the living proof what rubbish the Reinheitsgebot really is. Xanthohumol, Hopfenextrakt - but all the same "Gebraut nach dem Bayerischen Reinheitsgebot". B*llocks.