Delightful banana-clove sweetness, brown-sugared toffee tingle and subtle raisin snip greet the tongue. Sharp hop spicing increases dewy peat resonance below the surface.
Tag Archives: dark wheat
DEFIANT/ FIFTH HAMMER CHAINSAW HAND IMPERIAL HOPPY BLACK WITBIER
On tap at Ambulance, candi-sugared dark wheat ale collaboration with Fifth Hammer Brewing saddles dark chocolate spicing with mellow dewy sweetness, subtle banana nut caking and mild hop resin. Call it a hybridized weizenbock.
MIKKELLER WEIZENBOCK
Crystalline weizenbock delicately combines easygoing sugar-spiced molasses fruiting and lightly creamed marzipan-candied caramel malting. Sweet banana, cherry, ruby red grapefruit, navel orange, candied apple, sugarplum and fig illusions emerge alongside wispy chestnut-pecan-almond whim.
RAPSCALLION MUNICH DARK
Delectable dunkelweizen grafts peat-smoked molasses and dark chocolate to caramel malt sweetness – contrasting earthen dry hops. Subtle prune-date combo dissipates as suppressed tobacco-roasted walnut, cola nut and chestnut dalliance lingers softly.
SHINER HOLIDAY CHEER
Almost perfectly realized dunkelweizen hybrid heightens stylishly dried-fruited caramelized wheat sweetness with Texas peach juices and toasted pecan. Peach soda flow captures fizzy Maraschino cherry, navel orange and raspberry subsidies while Mead-wined mulled spices drift by casually. A peach cheer for Christmas!
SAMUEL ADAMS 3 WEISSE MEN WEIZENBOCK
On tap at Cloverleaf, indefinite moderation lacks stylistically sufficient banana-clove tartness and peaty pale wheat spine. Mild grape, apple, apricot and fig illusions never break the surface.
MAGNIFY BLACK WHEAT
On tap at Poor Henry’s, spunky dark wheat ale brings smoky black patent malting to burnt rye toasting, nutty pumpernickel breading and day-old coffee remnant. Soft-watered mineral graining contrasts lightly pungent hop char in the backdrop. Serve to robust porter-stout imbibers.
FLYING DOG EARL GREY BLACK WHEAT
Middling dry-bodied Brewhouse Rarities offering provides peculiar Earl Grey tea malting to black chocolate roast (perhaps mimicking schwarzbier-like black patent malt astringency). Gunky Blackstrap molasses-honeyed wheat spine picks up moldy rye breading. Not sure it all comes together, but may suit particular dark ale tastes.
METROPOLITAN ARC WELDER DUNKEL RYE
Smooth dunkelweizen maintains relaxed feel as dainty dried fruited pleasantries seep into nutty caramel malting. Polite raisin and fig tones soak up ancillary chocolate-vanilla sweetness. Toasted rye-pumpernickel spine scatters tertiary roasted tobacco, light-roast coffee and cocoa niceties.
(TEXIAN) BROKEN BRIDGE DUNKELWEIZEN
Unsure if stylistic integrity is betrayed or if correct balance is achieved with sour ale-leaning German dunkel (in canned version). Certain odd complexities abound after cascading tan head settles above caramel-hued body. Fungi yeast earthiness inundates vinegary green apple and white grape tartness as well as bubbly champagne pucker, disrupting mild chocolate malting. Unduly dried orange musk and murky ashen walnut char congest embittered citric-spoiled finish. Expectant banana sweetness lost in the muddled mix.
3 SHEEPS BAAAD BOY BLACK WHEAT ALE
Velvety brown-bodied relaxant brings dark-roasted amber graining and mild dry-hopped bittering to Graham Cracker-honeyed dark wheat malting. Soured fig-date conflux fades beneath dark chocolate, espresso and molasses subsidy. Call it a hybridized dunkelweizen with porter-like leanings.
SHOCK-TOP CHOCOLATE WHEAT
Closer to a vanilla porter than its semi-nebulous Belgian wheat styling indicates and far adrift from Shock-Top’s popular flagship brews, Raspberry Wheat or Belgian White, this fudge-creamed chocolate wheat ale may lack expectant Belgian chocolate spicing, but there’s no denying the impact of vanilla bean and cocoa ‘aging.’ Vanilla fudge sugaring spreads across the chocolate-caked interior to its dark wheat-malted spine. And the addition of dried cocoa fortifies the dry-roasted hops.
