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Bavarian Style Hefeweizen
Black Market Brewing Co.
- From:
- Black Market Brewing Co.
- California, United States
- Style:
- Hefeweizen
- ABV:
- 5%
- Score:
- 85
- Avg:
- 3.75 | pDev: 13.87%
- Reviews:
- 18
- Ratings:
- Status:
- Active
- Rated:
- Dec 29, 2017
- Added:
- Dec 06, 2009
- Wants:
- 7
- Gots:
- 16
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Ratings by quadhog:
Rated by quadhog from New Mexico
4/5 rDev +6.7%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
Jun 04, 2015
4/5 rDev +6.7%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
Jun 04, 2015
More User Ratings:
Reviewed by Tsar_Riga from Minnesota
3.71/5 rDev -1.1%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
3.71/5 rDev -1.1%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
Looks like a traditional Hefe, but the nose is mostly sour grain. The flavor is better, opening with a hit of sour wheat but adding highlights of the expected yeast note of banana in the middle and close. Not much sweetness, which is fine, but ultimately not hitting what I value most in the style.
Nov 10, 2017Reviewed by andrewh995 from Arizona
3.56/5 rDev -5.1%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
3.56/5 rDev -5.1%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
Pours a hazy gold with a white head. Smells of banana esters, yeast, wheat, and sour oranges. Tastes of mild wheat, German yeast, some sour funk, and banana. Medium in body and carbonation. Overall a decent hefe, however it's not the typical hefeweizen I'm used to.
Aug 26, 2017Reviewed by anon from California
3.5/5 rDev -6.7%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.25
3.5/5 rDev -6.7%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.25
Clear copper/yellow with a decent, two-finger fluffy head, off-white, leavings trails of lace that don't stick, but trail down the glass. Smell is heavily grain, straw and malt forward with a heaping of clove. A little too pungent for me and lacking some complexity.
Taste is decent with more heavy grain and straw flavours, with a sweet malt lick and some notes of clove, banana, pepper, vanilla. A little bit bready and chewy. A good straightforward hefe but missing something to make it "pop". There are definitely better takes on the style out there but this is a decent go-to on a budget.
May 02, 2016Taste is decent with more heavy grain and straw flavours, with a sweet malt lick and some notes of clove, banana, pepper, vanilla. A little bit bready and chewy. A good straightforward hefe but missing something to make it "pop". There are definitely better takes on the style out there but this is a decent go-to on a budget.
Reviewed by soco89ziegler from California
4.07/5 rDev +8.5%
look: 4.5 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
4.07/5 rDev +8.5%
look: 4.5 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
This is the best year-round beer Black Market brews, and I am a dark beer fan. My only complaint is semi noticeable quality control. Sometimes I have this beer at the brewery and it just isn't as enjoyable as the previous.
Great, smooth taste. Served in a 20 ounce glass at the brewery. Easy drinking, enjoyable beer with classic qualities associated with the Bavarian Style.
Jan 23, 2016Great, smooth taste. Served in a 20 ounce glass at the brewery. Easy drinking, enjoyable beer with classic qualities associated with the Bavarian Style.
Reviewed by Diameter from Washington
4.53/5 rDev +20.8%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.75 | overall: 4.5
4.53/5 rDev +20.8%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.75 | overall: 4.5
This is the real deal. A respectable tasting bavarian from the USA.
Looks right, smells right, tastes right. And when I say right I just mean bavarian. No offense to the lemon people.
Poured from a can no less.
Edit: forgot to mention this immediately reminded me of a Erdinger on tap. Or maybe it was Koenig. I better go check.
Aug 04, 2015Looks right, smells right, tastes right. And when I say right I just mean bavarian. No offense to the lemon people.
Poured from a can no less.
Edit: forgot to mention this immediately reminded me of a Erdinger on tap. Or maybe it was Koenig. I better go check.
Reviewed by biboergosum from Canada (AB)
3.55/5 rDev -5.3%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.5
3.55/5 rDev -5.3%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.5
22oz bottle. Somehow the whole Prohibition theme doesn't work when dealing with a German brewing staple.
This beer pours a glassy, medium golden yellow colour, with one skinny finger of weakly foamy, and mostly just bubbly dirty white head, which leaves some low-lying cannonball splash lace in places around the glass as it quickly sinks away.
It smells of semi-sweet, grainy wheat malt, soft earthy yeast, wet banana chips, a subtle white pepper and clove spiciness, and plain weedy, leafy noble hops. The taste is bready, grainy wheat malt, a twinge of white breakfast biscuit, muddled earthy spice, underripe banana peel, ethereal hints of played-out bubblegum, and more weak leafy, musty hops.
The carbonation is mostly just soft and lilting in its genial frothiness, the body sort of on the light side of middleweight, and pretty smooth, actually, with a small burgeoning creaminess. It finishes off-dry, the wheatiness not ready to cede the day, just yet, while the spice and hop astringencies carry on with their downward spiral.
Not quite sure what awards this one has garnered, but IMHO it lies somewhere in the middle between bland American pale wheat ales, and the best of class from yer old-school German brewers. Easy enough to drink, I suppose, but there's nothing here to encourage me to lay down the ducats for another.
Jul 15, 2015This beer pours a glassy, medium golden yellow colour, with one skinny finger of weakly foamy, and mostly just bubbly dirty white head, which leaves some low-lying cannonball splash lace in places around the glass as it quickly sinks away.
It smells of semi-sweet, grainy wheat malt, soft earthy yeast, wet banana chips, a subtle white pepper and clove spiciness, and plain weedy, leafy noble hops. The taste is bready, grainy wheat malt, a twinge of white breakfast biscuit, muddled earthy spice, underripe banana peel, ethereal hints of played-out bubblegum, and more weak leafy, musty hops.
The carbonation is mostly just soft and lilting in its genial frothiness, the body sort of on the light side of middleweight, and pretty smooth, actually, with a small burgeoning creaminess. It finishes off-dry, the wheatiness not ready to cede the day, just yet, while the spice and hop astringencies carry on with their downward spiral.
Not quite sure what awards this one has garnered, but IMHO it lies somewhere in the middle between bland American pale wheat ales, and the best of class from yer old-school German brewers. Easy enough to drink, I suppose, but there's nothing here to encourage me to lay down the ducats for another.
Rated by W_Des from North Carolina
2.91/5 rDev -22.4%
look: 4.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 2.25 | feel: 4 | overall: 2.5
2.91/5 rDev -22.4%
look: 4.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 2.25 | feel: 4 | overall: 2.5
Had on tap at a local San Diego restaurant. The flavor just fell off after the initial sweet taste and just finished with lack of flavor. So weird.
Jul 15, 2015
Bavarian Style Hefeweizen from Black Market Brewing Co.
Beer rating:
85 out of
100 with
86 ratings
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