[1] Review by bigred00 from buffalo, NY, USA who has tried this beer once. (10/10/2008 6:00:37 PM)
"Presentation: It was poured from a brown 500ml. or 1 pint .9oz bottle into a weizen glass.
Appearance: It had a golden color, which was lighter than I had expected and a hazy unfiltered body. The head is just off white in color and builds up tall and thick then very slowly fades making slick patchy lacing on the glass.
Smell: The aroma had sweet malty wheat notes with yeast and estery fruitiness.
Taste/Mouth feel: There are estery flavor notes of banana, apple, golden raison and bubble gum within a mildly sweet and tangy wheat malt. Also there are hints of clove and some mild spicy hops for balance. It has a solid medium body with a palate that is smooth and a touch slick with pleasing carbonation.
Notes: Outstanding!!!
"
Aroma:
10/10
Appearance:
10/10
Mouthfeel:
9/10
Flavor:
9/10
Overall:
9/10
Final Rating, by Style:
(4.7)
Sampled: Bottle Sample Size: 500ml @ $2.19 Unit Cost: $2.07 per Pint
[2] Review by jerrymorrison from lockhart, TX, USA who has tried this beer once. (9/4/2008 11:18:43 AM)
"Vitus poured a hazy yellow body, with decent carbonation that gave it a thick head; which left spotty laceing. Aromas of pears and banana, flavors of cloves, banana and wheat. Alcohol was also present, but for it being listed at 7.7% it was well hidden. Its like a 'heavy' hefeweizen in all aspects, a well brewed beer thats worth a try."
Aroma:
8/10
Appearance:
7/10
Mouthfeel:
8/10
Flavor:
7/10
Overall:
7/10
Final Rating, by Style:
(3.7)
Sampled: Bottle Sample Size: 500ml @ $3.5 Unit Cost: $3.31 per Pint
[3] Review by Suds McDuff from Suds City, AleTown, USA who has tried this beer once. (7/11/2008 9:41:10 AM)
"bought downtown after the 'beer meeting' ... pours a hazy golden yellow ... big foam, lacing is all of A+ .. very smooth and drinkable .. is there such a thing as a session weizenbock ... decent flavour, not as refined or full as aventinus.. decent and all that sherpa stuff.. gunga guluga... "
Aroma:
7/10
Appearance:
8/10
Mouthfeel:
8/10
Flavor:
6/10
Overall:
7/10
Final Rating, by Style:
(3.6)
Sampled: Bottle Sample Size: 500ml @ $5 Unit Cost: $4.73 per Pint
[4] Review by Phil B from Gatineau, Canada who has tried this beer once. (3/17/2008 3:27:58 PM)
"Bottle: Poured a golden color weizenbock (kinda light of the style) with a huge foamy white head with good retention and some lacing. Aroma consists of banana ester with some cloves and fresh fruits. Taste is also dominated by some nice wheat malt note with loads of fruity, banana and cloves ester. The yeast really works wonderfully in this beer. Full body with loads of lees and great carbonation. I wish I had access to quality stuff like that every day."
Aroma:
9/10
Appearance:
9/10
Mouthfeel:
9/10
Flavor:
8/10
Overall:
8/10
Final Rating, by Style:
(4.3)
Sampled: Bottle
Value of this beer for its style: Not Sure
[5] Review by Sap from Tucson, AZ, USA who has tried this beer once. (3/4/2008 11:53:38 PM)
"This is pretty well carbonated as a soft pour still yields a full three-finger thick, frothy, pale tan colored head. The beer is a light gold color and shows a very lightly hazed, straw gold color when held up to the light. The aroma is distinctly full of clove phenolics, even seeming a bit fruity in its clove character. Wheat like grain notes provide a touch of bread aromatics, some light tartness and some cracker-malt notes. Banana esters mix in with the clove notes, but are definitely noticed as well. There are also some plum like notes as well as a touch of apple aromatics.
Well carbonated, yet still creamy like many a good Hefeweizen; this does have a touch more body than your standard Hefe, but so far if I was presented this blind I would be hard pressed to guess that this is something other than a normal Hefeweizen. The strength of this brew shows up in the esters that are noticeable; this is a bit more fruity than your typical strength Hefe with flavors of plum, Macintosh apples and green raisins. This fruitiness is backed by a spicy, phenolic finish reminiscent of the turpenes particular to cloves. As the beer loses some of its zippy carbonation and warms up just a touch it begins to pick up a lightly concentrated banana note in the middle. This has a light tartness to it than helps to accentuate the various fruit components a bit.
The last pour that has some yeast sediment to it, adds a bit more yeasted tartness to this brew, which is a nice added dimension. I really like this take on the Weizenbock; it really is just a slightly amped up version of a well made Hefeweizen with the increased gravity producing more interesting esters and phenolics.
Purchased: Plaza Liquors, Tucson AZ"
Aroma:
8/10
Appearance:
8/10
Mouthfeel:
8/10
Flavor:
8/10
Overall:
7/10
Final Rating, by Style:
(3.9)
Sampled: Bottle Sample Size: 500ml @ $2.8 Unit Cost: $2.65 per Pint
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