Wynkoop El Hefe Weizenbock

Draft. An unclear dark brown beer with a lazing tan head. The aroma is sweet malty with light notes of wheat and banana. The flavor is sweet with notes of wheat and banana, leading to a dry wheaty finish.

On tap. Pours slightly cloudy medium brown. Good head retention. Yeasty aroma. Palate is dry and dusty. Sampled again about a month later and was much clearer. Banana bread flavors predominate.

On tap at the brewpub. Pours a very dirty light brown cloud of a mess. Similar to the dust cloud that follows Pig Pen around in those Peanuts cartoons. Aroma is nice: bananas and baking bread. The flavors are yeasty banana and cloves. Not as thick in taste as it appears, still a fairly satisfying brew. I’d drink it again.

Cloudy brown body Solid wheat nose. Clove, wheat, and coarriander on the nose. Slightly bitter.

Pours a cloudy dark amber opaque with a dense, frothy tan head. Aroma of sweet bready German yeast with good wheat and clove notes. Body starts full and yeasty with a mild sweetness and lots of spicy clove and some banana esters toward a drier doughy finish. Good weizenbock, but could use a little more sweetness.