Hornet's Nest
The Olde Mecklenburg Brewery

 

Excellent hefe. Well blended sweetness and spice. Solid something to sip on when it gets cold but you don’t want a super dark beer! Love OMB and they’ve done it again.

Look: It pours golden with a little bit of haze. The head is white with good head retention.

Smell: There are aromas of bananas and cloves, but they are not as strong as some other examples in this class. There are some doughy and vanilla elements in the background.

Taste: The flavors are more balance towards the banana and vanilla in the flavor. There are cloves, but hey are more of a background note. There are some doughy elements in support.

Feel: It has a medium body with an aftertaste that is on the sweet side.

Overall: The flavors are subtle, but well represented. It is easy drinking and quite enjoyable.

31 Jul 25 Bottle. Hefeweizen is a favorite and this doesn’t disappoint for an American-made weissbeer. Spot on sweetness and rather refreshing on a summer day. Is notably NOT a classic German unfiltered, with fullness and complexity (and delicious hefesatz sentiment), but a cloudy beer that offers a solid and enjoyable Hefeweizen experience.

 

Very enjoyable cloudy hefe
Lots of banana and biscuit.
Love the deep yellow color

 

 

On tap at the brewery served in a weizen glass

The beer pours a cloudy straw color with about two fingers worth of foamy white head that slowly recedes into a cap and leaves behind quite a bit of lacing.

The aroma is exactly what I was looking for in a good hefe; banana, lemon, clove, crackers, and maybe just a hint of an underlying tartness. Very inviting

The flavor follows the aroma with lots of banana, lemon, and clove, but also has notes of bubblegum, a light peppery spiciness, and a very mild tartness on the finish. Medium/light bodied with moderate carbonation.

Overall this is a very good example of the style! OMB definitely hits the mark with this one.

 

 

 

Appearance: Pours a slightly hazy goldenstraw with a two finger head; decent retention with squiggles and shards

Smell: Wheat bread with hints of lemon, banana, sugar cookie and clove

Taste: Tangy wheat forward with hints of banana and sugar cookie; the lemon and clove appear after the swallow

Mouthfeel: Medium body with moderate to high carbonation; somewhat creamy

Overall: Not getting quite the level of banana that I would like to taste; maybe it is the batch as others have reported a more traditional brew

 

 

Enjoyed a 1/2 liter serving while visiting the brewery on 8-8-21. Also picked up a four-pack to take home.

Beer was served golden with an outstanding white head that had some great hang time!

Nose was outstanding as the yeast strain imparted a serious amount of banana and clove esters.

Taste followed the nose with the light wheat malt base incorporating the weizen yeast wonderfully imparting a bold bubble gum, banana, and clove flavor mid sip. Finished balanced.

Mouthfeel was light to medium bodied and pretty smooth and refreshing.

Overall while enjoying this i kept commenting to Da Boss on how legit the brewery is and how on par they are with the Weihenstephaner Hefeweissbier!

With such an assertive name but a quite soft style, Olde Mecklenburg's take on traditional German Wheat Ale pays homage to Carolina history with a soothing session.

Cloudy gold and with peps of burnt lemon providing an overcast to the wheaten riddled ale, Hornet's Nest billows with a creamy pillow of foam. As a fruity, spicy and herbal scent rolls off of the glass, notions of tropical, citrus and pastry come to mind and with a tingle of pepper. Soft and creamy with first impression in taste, an upstart of cream of wheat offers a cereal softness with sugar cookie and wheat germ.

The full fruit and spice balance is on display once the beer breaches the middle palate with lemon, banana, apple and pawpaw. Not to be outdone, the spices of white pepper, clove, coriander and mint all balance the fruits and lingering wheat sweetness and eventually overtake them. Trending herbal with lemon pepper and hay, the hops are there for support only and to never make the beer bitter.

Medium light on the palate, the spices, grains and hops pull the beer out of balance slightly with the earthiness of stale bread and an extra tingle on the tongue. But the beer otherwise finishes crisp and refreshing with an off-clean linger. Hints of cumin and mint linger slightly in a short and sweet after palate.