Foggy dark
brown dobbelbock-weizen from the “headquarters” of the greatest weizens,
Schneider Weisse, Germany.
Pours with huge head. Yeast visible as expected.
Banana and bubblegum in the smell. Sweet banana and bitterness in the taste and
aftertaste.
I’m not a fan of wheat beer, as I have said many times in this
blog. Still especially the bitter hoppiness works and raises this a lot above
the worst weizens. Even the sweetness is not too bad, when the hops do their
magic.
Its odd, how much wheat changes the beer, but of course – it is not
barley, they are a different crops and the malts of these grains are the basis
of beer. This has barley too, of course, but the effect of wheat on taste is so
huge, that if you don’t like wheat beers, then they must be exceptional to
raise from bad to even OK. This is definitely OK, maybe even great in its own
genre. But I am not the right man to decide about that. Try it yourself and
decide. For me this is definitely OK/good. Banana and some kind of refreshing
fruitiness rules the taste palette.
***+ OK/very
good for a weizen
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