Butautu Kvietinis Hefeweizen
Butautu Dvaro Bravoras / UAB Fulgor
- From:
- Butautu Dvaro Bravoras / UAB Fulgor
- Lithuania
- Style:
- Hefeweizen
- ABV:
- 4.3%
- Score:
- +9 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 2.59 | pDev: 0%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 1
- Status:
- Inactive
- Rated:
- Feb 28, 2016
- Added:
- Feb 28, 2016
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
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Reviewed by Jugs_McGhee from Texas
2.59/5 rDev 0%
look: 2.75 | smell: 2.5 | taste: 2.5 | feel: 2.75 | overall: 2.75
2.59/5 rDev 0%
look: 2.75 | smell: 2.5 | taste: 2.5 | feel: 2.75 | overall: 2.75
375ml brown glass bottle purchased at a supermarket in Vilnius. Has a black paper-ed over pry-off crown cap and a classy looking ribbon label towards its bottom, but no body label or neck label.
Hefeweizen. 4.30% ABV.
HEAD: Occupies ~40% of the glass. White colour. Standard consistency and complexion (average frothiness, et al.) Nice retention - ~7 minutes.
BODY: Less the haziness of a hefeweizen and more the cloudy turbidity of a witbier...it doesn't help that it's also more of a bright yellow than a classic hefeweizen orange. Semitransparent. Translucent.
No yeast is visible within.
AROMA: Muted wheat...and that's it. No estery yeast notes: no banana, no orange peel, no lemon.
Aromatic intensity is low. Quite a weak aroma indeed, but maybe it'll be less subdued upon tasting...
TASTE: It does open up a bit, revealing a generic wheat backbone and some lemony citrus. It's still painfully reticent, though, and there's no depth of flavour whatsoever as a result. Shallow and timid to its detriment. I find no banana, orange peel, or clove. Pretty simplistic for a hefeweizen.
TEXTURE: Overcarbonated, and a bit too heavy in terms of presence on the palate. Smooth and wet, yet still somehow unrefreshing - probably because of its heft and weight on the palate. Not ideal, but not terrible...this mouthfeel fails to accentuate specific notes from the flavour profile or to elevate the beer as a whole.
OVERALL: A downable attempt at a hefeweizen, but ultimately too shallow and simple to be of any interest to the discerning drinker. I applaud any Lithuanian brewery that attempts a hefeweizen, but this has lots of room for improvement. I wouldn't buy it again, but I'll enjoy finishing the glass in spite of the beer's shortcomings. Notably, there are no obvious flaws; unlike many inferior Lithuanian beers, this does not have a diacetyl presence. And the texture isn't astringent, harsh, gushed, hot, or boozy. They've got their water chemistry in order, methinks, and that's something.
C- / BELOW AVERAGE
Feb 28, 2016Hefeweizen. 4.30% ABV.
HEAD: Occupies ~40% of the glass. White colour. Standard consistency and complexion (average frothiness, et al.) Nice retention - ~7 minutes.
BODY: Less the haziness of a hefeweizen and more the cloudy turbidity of a witbier...it doesn't help that it's also more of a bright yellow than a classic hefeweizen orange. Semitransparent. Translucent.
No yeast is visible within.
AROMA: Muted wheat...and that's it. No estery yeast notes: no banana, no orange peel, no lemon.
Aromatic intensity is low. Quite a weak aroma indeed, but maybe it'll be less subdued upon tasting...
TASTE: It does open up a bit, revealing a generic wheat backbone and some lemony citrus. It's still painfully reticent, though, and there's no depth of flavour whatsoever as a result. Shallow and timid to its detriment. I find no banana, orange peel, or clove. Pretty simplistic for a hefeweizen.
TEXTURE: Overcarbonated, and a bit too heavy in terms of presence on the palate. Smooth and wet, yet still somehow unrefreshing - probably because of its heft and weight on the palate. Not ideal, but not terrible...this mouthfeel fails to accentuate specific notes from the flavour profile or to elevate the beer as a whole.
OVERALL: A downable attempt at a hefeweizen, but ultimately too shallow and simple to be of any interest to the discerning drinker. I applaud any Lithuanian brewery that attempts a hefeweizen, but this has lots of room for improvement. I wouldn't buy it again, but I'll enjoy finishing the glass in spite of the beer's shortcomings. Notably, there are no obvious flaws; unlike many inferior Lithuanian beers, this does not have a diacetyl presence. And the texture isn't astringent, harsh, gushed, hot, or boozy. They've got their water chemistry in order, methinks, and that's something.
C- / BELOW AVERAGE
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