Wynkoop El Hefe Weizenbock

Brewed by Wynkoop Brewing Company
Style: Weizen Bock
Denver, Colorado USA

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.

Date: 10/11/2007
Mode: Draft
Source: Brewpub

looks lige a yeasy shot with a thick creamy head, lots of scattered lace, light banana and chocolate aroma, creamy body, rich malt flavor, nice chocolate and banana character,
-------- /> Date: 10/15/2007
Mode: draft
Source: brewpub

appearance is light a normal beer instead of day old fermenting wort, muddy dark brown, creamy beige head, streaks of lace, aroma and flavor same as before, just looks like a normal beer now that it hasfinished fermenting

Aroma: 6/10; Appearance: 3/10; Flavor: 6/10; Palate: 6/10; Overall: 11/20
Rating: 2.8/5.0
Drinkability: 7/10
Score: *4

On Tap at the Wynkoop Brewery, Denver 29/09/2005 Mid brown coloured with a very cloudy appearance. Citrus and banana fruit aroma and flavours. Some spice in a slightly dry finish.

St-Lawrence river water muddy brown appearance. The off-white head is rather big and lasting though. Marshmallow candied nose morphs into the doughy, banana flavoured yeastiness to procure cantaloupe and pear esters that feel highly juicy. Bandagey phenols reminds you it ain’t Aventinus, but rather a sweet and cakey version. Medium to full bodied, foamy and expanding carbonation, more tartness that I’d have expected and surprisingly astringent wheatiness that doesn’t pair very well with the not so well contained alcohol. Still, one of the better beers at Wynkoop.

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.

Draught, Wynkoop, Denver. Head is mostly lasting. Body is muddy medium brown. Aroma is moderately malty (cookie, caramel), with notes of banana and vanilla. Flavor is heavily sweet, moderately acidic. Finish is moderately sweet, moderately acidic, lightly bitter. Full body, creamy/syrupy texture, lively carbonation. Weirrrd. I mean, I like Weizenbocks, but egad...this looks like chocolate milk (sludgey dirty brown) to start with, and although the aroma is certainly passable for the style, in the mouth it’s like...well...remember the awful 2004 Dark Lord bottles? The ones that had about a cup of yeast in them? This reminds me of that a bit...like drinking soup to some extent. This isn’t as thick, of course, but has that same wayyy too much yeast tactile sensation that almost makes my stomach heave. Not repulsive per se, just very disconcerting. Cloying type of sweetness.

Tap @ Wynkoop: This was so murky and yeasty it was opaque. It looked like brown mustard with a large stiff head that lasted until the beer was gone. The head was thick and slimy. This beer was still fermenting. I think the head was top floc yeast. There were small pockets of clear beer forming between the head and the yeast farm. The aroma was all banana and yeast with a citrusy tartness. The flavor was fruity and had notes of banana. Light spice on the finish. The finish was moderately bitter. Dry with a medium body. I would give the appearance a higher school if this was a school science project.

Draft at the brewpub, GABF weekend. Nice hazy brown muddiness with a thin but sticky foam top. The aroma is almost banana creme pie. As it drinks, the banana essence stays in the background, with the yeasty side playing the leading role. Finishes with a sharp biting bitterness that lingers. Very nice representation of the style. (#3137, 10/12/2007)