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Dragon's Breath
Bayern Brewing, Inc. / Edelweiss Bistro
- From:
- Bayern Brewing, Inc. / Edelweiss Bistro
- Montana, United States
- Style:
- Dunkelweizen
Ranked #38 - ABV:
- 6%
- Score:
- 82
Ranked #24,867 - Avg:
- 3.61 | pDev: 14.68%
- Reviews:
- 50
- Ratings:
- Status:
- Active
- Rated:
- Nov 13, 2023
- Added:
- Apr 24, 2009
- Wants:
- 7
- Gots:
- 20
Dragon's Breath is a Dark Wheat Hefeweizen, otherwise known as a Dunkelweizen. It is mild in taste, unfiltered, and moderately hopped with Hallertauer Perle hops, cold fermented eliminating any harsh aftertaste. This award winning Bavarian classic was brought to America by our German Brewmaster Jurgen.
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Ratings by RedBrewer83:
Reviewed by RedBrewer83 from Oregon
3.7/5 rDev +2.5%
look: 3 | smell: 3 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
3.7/5 rDev +2.5%
look: 3 | smell: 3 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
Aggressively poured into pint glass...
A: Pours a dark chocolate brown body with a two finger head of creamy mocha appearance. Decent lacing as it falls fairly quickly to a thin ring.
S: Pretty muted really, faint clove and toasted bread with a light hint of dark malt and faint sweetness.
T: Much better than the aroma, all the flavors of the nose but with added intensity and depth. More malt and clove present with a little added brown sugar sweetness. Pretty nice overall.
M: Smooth with pretty nice carbonation, makes the mouthfeel slightly creamy with just enough activity to wake up the tastebuds.
D: Pretty smooth and drinkable, not a lot going on so it makes it easy going down and the low abv makes it pretty quaffable.
Feb 11, 2010A: Pours a dark chocolate brown body with a two finger head of creamy mocha appearance. Decent lacing as it falls fairly quickly to a thin ring.
S: Pretty muted really, faint clove and toasted bread with a light hint of dark malt and faint sweetness.
T: Much better than the aroma, all the flavors of the nose but with added intensity and depth. More malt and clove present with a little added brown sugar sweetness. Pretty nice overall.
M: Smooth with pretty nice carbonation, makes the mouthfeel slightly creamy with just enough activity to wake up the tastebuds.
D: Pretty smooth and drinkable, not a lot going on so it makes it easy going down and the low abv makes it pretty quaffable.
More User Ratings:
Reviewed by stevoj from Idaho
3.48/5 rDev -3.6%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3.5
3.48/5 rDev -3.6%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3.5
12 oz Bottle. Dark brown pour, cloudy, thick foamy head subsides. Nutty, toasty aroma. Toasty dark malts, light sweetness, bready, yeasty. Right on target.
Nov 13, 2023Reviewed by Victory_Sabre1973 from Minnesota
3.75/5 rDev +3.9%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
3.75/5 rDev +3.9%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
This is copied from my Untapped review with some edits. 3.75 rating.
Dark amber pour from the bottle with a tan head.
Hints of caramel malts on the nose.
Flavor is caramel biscuit. The flavor lingers with a bit of bitterness on the backside.
Decent Body.
This is a good beer.
Sep 27, 2022Dark amber pour from the bottle with a tan head.
Hints of caramel malts on the nose.
Flavor is caramel biscuit. The flavor lingers with a bit of bitterness on the backside.
Decent Body.
This is a good beer.
Rated by SushiSakeBeer from Oregon
3.75/5 rDev +3.9%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
3.75/5 rDev +3.9%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
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Oct 21, 2020Reviewed by rodbeermunch from Nevada
3.05/5 rDev -15.5%
look: 3.25 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3 | feel: 2.75 | overall: 3
3.05/5 rDev -15.5%
look: 3.25 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3 | feel: 2.75 | overall: 3
Pours a dark brown, but not a stout/porter like viscosity to it. An off white almost seeing yellow creep into the head 1/5". Aroma was some scorched wheat, kind of reminded me of that FFF beer that torched their shit. Aroma hits the normal clove and spice rack hefeweizen yeast feels, so I can kinda vouch for them in that way beyond the scorching aspect.
Taste was a hodge podge of feels, one mans complexity is another man's bunch of conflicting shit. Dark beer and bananas, clove, lemon, heavily roasted moderately bitter wheat. Found the alcohol to be quite pervasive and hot throughout. Drinks like its 10%. You like caramel apples? This was like toffee apple.
The commercial tug job is hilariously untrue. Cold filtered to eliminate any harshness? WRONG. This shit burns. I'm not telling you not to try it. It does have some uniqueness going for it, but its prolly the kind you try once, and go "oh well, that was different, but for my next beer, I'd also like to try something different."
Feb 07, 2020Taste was a hodge podge of feels, one mans complexity is another man's bunch of conflicting shit. Dark beer and bananas, clove, lemon, heavily roasted moderately bitter wheat. Found the alcohol to be quite pervasive and hot throughout. Drinks like its 10%. You like caramel apples? This was like toffee apple.
The commercial tug job is hilariously untrue. Cold filtered to eliminate any harshness? WRONG. This shit burns. I'm not telling you not to try it. It does have some uniqueness going for it, but its prolly the kind you try once, and go "oh well, that was different, but for my next beer, I'd also like to try something different."
Reviewed by Bitterbill from Wyoming
3.61/5 rDev 0%
look: 4.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.5
3.61/5 rDev 0%
look: 4.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.5
The bottle's notch is in between March and April. It's been a long time since I've seen a brewer use the notch system. I saw cans and bottles of their beers..make up your mind, already. Lol.
A dark hefeweizen, eh? Looks like clear dark mahogany, slightly off white head of foam, decent lacing.
Smells of cloves and bananas, the former being bolder. Light sweetness, heck, the overall smell is on the light side. At 6%abv, I thought that the smell would be bolder. I let the bottle warm up. ..
The flavours are equally as non assertive. Bummer. I don't detect any flaws, it is just bland to my taste buds. There's a little bit of roast that I get, hence the dark Hefeweizen moniker, but I still don't get the reasoning behind why the brewery chose to go there. Oh well.
The mouthfeel is just fine.
I bought the bottle as a single and I'm glad I did. I have no interest in drinking it again.
Jan 26, 2019A dark hefeweizen, eh? Looks like clear dark mahogany, slightly off white head of foam, decent lacing.
Smells of cloves and bananas, the former being bolder. Light sweetness, heck, the overall smell is on the light side. At 6%abv, I thought that the smell would be bolder. I let the bottle warm up. ..
The flavours are equally as non assertive. Bummer. I don't detect any flaws, it is just bland to my taste buds. There's a little bit of roast that I get, hence the dark Hefeweizen moniker, but I still don't get the reasoning behind why the brewery chose to go there. Oh well.
The mouthfeel is just fine.
I bought the bottle as a single and I'm glad I did. I have no interest in drinking it again.
Dragon's Breath from Bayern Brewing, Inc. / Edelweiss Bistro
Beer rating:
82 out of
100 with
142 ratings
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