Crisp pale-clouded (and ultimately unassuming) moderate body neither as overtly sweet nor as heavily carbonated as more compelling banana-clove-influenced wheat rivals. Sour yeast consumes lemony grapefruit-orange wisp to doughy white-breaded spine. Slight metallic tinniness hampers washed-out finish.
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BARREL HOUSE HOCKING HILLS HEFEWEIZEN
HACKER-PSCHORR HEFE WEISSE
LONG TRAIL HEFEWEIZEN
Mild citric-spiced summer seasonal places banana leaf waft above lemony hop fizz. Thrifty cereal-grained cracked wheat spine fortifies starchy plantain gambit, green banana continuance, and floral coriander-clove easement. Cotton candied finish picks up distant apple-pear nuance to counter impeding lemon sourness.
RED HOOK HEFE-WEIZEN
SMUTTYNOSE WEIZENHEIMER ALE
WEIHENSTEPHANER & DOEMENS 1809 BERLINER WEISSE
Slender golden-hazed glow radiates drier, bitterer German wheat beer supposedly first brewed for Napolean (and re-created by Dr. Fritz Briem). Extremely tart lemon juice frontage sags to sharp cider bittering. Sour grapefruit, unripe orange, and blanched banana-kiwi diminish below unexpected lemongrass proclivity and musty barnyard waft. Faint clove spicing barely sweetens quinine-watered backdrop.








