Showing posts with label Hefeweizen. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Hefeweizen. Show all posts

Thursday, May 7, 2026

Weihenstephaner Hefeweissbier

Hefeweissbier is a classic and great example of a Hefeweizen.


BeeradvocateOur golden-yellow wheat beer, with its fine-poured white foam, smells of cloves and impresses consumers with its refreshing banana flavour. It is full bodied and with a smooth yeast taste. To be enjoyed at any time,goes excellently with fish and seafood, with spicy cheese and especially with the traditional Bavarian veal sausage. Brewed according to our centuries-old brewing tradition on the Weihenstephan hill.

Tasting notes
260528: Another bottle or two and I am upgrading the rating. It is a great hefe.

Rating: 6 glasses

Previous ratings: 5.5, 6, 5, 6, 7

260518: I am on my third bottle of the six pack. The beer is fine but I am downgrading the rating slightly. It is a great example of the style and I want to buy it whenever I see it.

260508: Drank the first of a six pack bottled in December 2025. A great hefeweizen. Some clove and banana but nothing too strong. Nice wheaty backbone. I would love to sample a really fresh one.

(1104) A solid 5, maybe 6 glasses. 

(1104) 3 from a 4.5 mn old 6-pack. Heavier than I remembered w/ some orange zest . Downgraded from 6 glasses and thought about going lower. An old/bad batch? (0909) Cloves and a tiche of bitter/sour. Not quite as good as I remembered. Downgraded to 6 after tasing Third Coast Old Ale and remembering Aventius from previous night. Click here for previous review.

Saturday, October 14, 2023

Live Oak HefeWeizen

The reviewers @ BeerAdvocate love HefeWeizen. I do not.

Brewer's notesModeled after the classic wheat beers of Bavaria, Hefeweizen is cloudy and straw-colored with a meringue-like head that lingers to the bottom of the glass. Brewed with an ample volume of wheat malt and few hops, this beer features a unique yeast strain that produces harmonious notes of clove, banana, and vanilla throughout this effervescent brew. A traditional interpretation of a classic style, this idiosyncratic Bavarian beer is perfectly at home here in Texas.

Tasting notes
14 October 2023: The aroma of the beer offers great promise - nice clove and banana smells. But the taste fails to deliver on the promise. The beer is a rather bland hefe with an odd lemon flavor and a titch of zest and the head dissipates quickly. 
Some of the reviews in BeerAdvocate express similar reactions. I was disappointed after discovering what I thought was a whale. 

Rating = 1 glass. I'll finish the six-pack I purchased.

Sunday, January 2, 2011

Bavarian Style Hefeweizen

Brewer: Trader Joe's

Style: Hefeweizen

Tasting notes: (1010) Bananas, clove and bubble gum. Upgraded from 3 glasses. (1008) Wonderful nose. Flavor is weaker and a little different. Downgraded from 4 glasses. (1004) Bananas and clove. A little thin. May rate 3 glasses but $1 a bottle pushes up the score.

Comment: A contract brew.

Previous ratings: 4 glasses, then 3.

Rating: 4 glasses

Saturday, January 30, 2010

The Love

Brewer: Starr Hill

Style: Hefeweizen

Tasting notes: (1008) Very nice - slight banana and clove. May rate 5 glasses. (1005) Last of 2 6's. Good but downgraded from 5 glasses. (1002) On draft @ Joes's Inn. Would be 6 glasses if not for Weihenstephaner. (1001) Lemony fruit, a tiche of cloves and a touch of banana. Refreshing. May be overrated at 5 glasses but fond memories from my first tasting and drinkability push it up from 4.

Comment: The Love was the hit at a beer festival I attended a few summers ago.

Rating: 4 glasses.

Sunday, August 2, 2009

Weihenstephaner Hefeweissbier

Beer: Hefeweissbier

Brewer: Weihenstephaner

Style: Hefeweizen

Tasting notes: (0908) Cloves and banana. Light and flavorful. Wonderful. Click here for previous review.

Top 100: 29 December 2005, 10 March 2007, 8 February 2009 and 2 August 2009.

Rating: 7 glasses

Friday, July 31, 2009

Sierra Nevada Kellerweis

Beer: Kellerweis

Brewer: Sierra Nevada

Style: Hefeweizen

Tasting notes: (0907) 3 bottles from a 6-pack. Interesting, easy drinking and complex but somehow misses my mark. Fruity, lemony, sweet apples, banana, breath of clove, and spicy. Could pass for a triple or belgian-style blond ale. A tiche heavy and sweet for a hefeweizen. May rate 2 glasses.

Comment: The brewer has recently added Kellerweis to its year-round lineup.

Rating: 3 glasses

Sunday, June 7, 2009

In Heat Wheat

Beer: In Heat Wheat

Brewer: Flying Dog

Style: Hefeweizen

Tasting notes: (0905) A bottle @ ML's. Good attempt @ a German-style Hefe from an American brewer - bananas and cloves.

Rating: 4 glasses

Saturday, May 16, 2009

Paulaner Hefe-Weissbier Naturtrub

Beer: Hefe-Weissbier Naturtrub

Brewer: Paulaner

Style: Hefeweizen

Tasting notes: (1005) A minikeg. A good example of the style. Upgraded from 3 glasses. (0905) Two minikegs. Pleasant and good w/ paella. May rate 4 glasses. Upgraded from 2 glasses. (0702) On tap in Denver. Well crafted but seems to have a hole in the flavor. Did not scratch my itch.

Rating: 4 glasses.

Thursday, January 29, 2009

Another 2-Beer Night

Beer: Weisse

Brewer: Scheidner

Style: Hefeweizen

Tasting notes: (2) Lemony and wheaty w/ a small hole in the flavor. (1) Pleasant darker hefe. Very subdued and smooth.

Rating: Good




Beer: Expedition Stout

Brewer: Bell's

Style: Imperial Stout

Tasting notes: (8) Another disappointment. Nice chocolate smell at first. Then a taste like cardboard soaked in soy sauce appears. Both disappointments were brewed on 1 Feb 2007. Perhaps the batch is bad? Removed from my top-10ish list. (7) A disappointment. Unsalted soy flavor and hot. Oxidation? No longer a favorite. (6) Malty mix of milk and bittersweet chocolate Alcohol peeked out. Went great w/ chocolate dessert and was a delightful after-dinner sipper. Back to being a favorite. (5) Big malt with touch of chocolate and a long bitter hop finish. Back to a top10ish beer but not a favorite. (4) A 2006-07 bottle. Yummy!!!. Charcoal milkshake with coffee and hops. Alcohol is present but subdued. One of my absolute favorite beers. (3) 2007-08 bottle. When cold a charcoal milkshake. Then a little hot. With more warming a sour/bitter hop bite at finish emerged. Emily described it as rich". I suspect it will be fantastic with some age. In my Top-10ish list. Would be one of may favorite beers except it is too hot. (2) Yummy - THICK, dark malt, dark fruit, charcoal, burnt chocolate, and a little alcohol burn. The perfect stout? (1) Black as old motor oil and twice as thick.

Comments: My rating for this beer has traditionally bounced between one of my all-time favorites and being in my top-10ish list. Two consecutive disappointments have led to a severe downgrade in the rating.

Dates on which reviewers at Beeradvocate.com rated the beer as one of the top 100 beers on the planet: 29 December 2005 and 10 March 2007. (Not on 30 January 2009.)
Rating: Recommended with qualification.