Shore Break Hefeweizen
Rhinelander Brewing Company

 

 

This beer was purchased at the Minhas brewery, following the tour. Poured from a 16 oz. can. Has a dark golden color with a 1 inch head. Smell is strong of fruit loops. Taste is fruity, sweet, some green apples. Feels medium bodied in the mouth and overall is a decent beer at this price point. But as a Hefeweizen? No, nothing about this beer is true to the style.

16oz can, New Belgium glass,

Poured pretty active with a large white head that dissipated quite quickly. Shore Break is an appropriate Hef golden rod, minimally hazy, with a small float of foam in the middle prior to taking any sips.

Clean Hefeweizen yeast aromas. A little banana, no clove, full gummy fruit, very malty.

This beer is bananas.....It's like gummy banana or tropical fruit candy. There's not a lot else going on. Really not much, it's just sweet. Cloying and so far from the hearty wheat and fruity yeast with a bite that should be here.

Lacking carbonation to balance the moderately syrupy body.

This is a poor example of a Hefeweizen and beer in general.

Drank from the can on vacation, so gave a 3 in appearance to be fair.
Not a bad beer, I was drinking it and trying to remember what it reminded me of, then it hit me. Graham crackers. Kind of weird. Glad I tried once, will go for better hefeweizens in the future.

L - Orange, yellow. Cloudy. No head.
S - Light pale malt; grain. Faint corniness, fruitiness.
T - Sweet and fruity. Almost candy-like. Cloying. Might be a little spice ...

Worst Hefeweizen I have ever had. Tastes like a really cheap beer, and not a very good one either. Says craft beer, but sure doesn't taste like it. Would not buy again.

 

Actual a really good beer. great taste and aroma but my only complaint would be the fact that it was canned which make the beer appear "cheaper". Although the fact that it does come in a fully enclosed box does help. This beer is definitely worth checking out just pour into beer glass

473ml can. The last in the triumvirate of this line of offerings currently available in Alberta from this contract brewer, who tell more by the company they keep than anything else before this tab is popped.

This beer pours a hazy, dark tarnished gold colour, with two fingers of bubbly, foamy off-white head, which leaves a single lonely drooping instance of arched lace around the glass as it quickly abates.

It smells of sweet grainy cereal malt, musty, sour orchard fruit, phenolic alcohol, a tame earthy yeastiness, and somewhat skanky, weedy, dead leaf hops. The taste is more sweet fruity malt - some sodden wheaty cereal, some corn mash in origin - a clumsy touch of brewer's yeast, and well moderated in their skunkiness, murky, hay-like, um, 'hops'.

The bubbles are quite sublimated, and thus hard to find, so I'm not going to try any further, the body an adequate medium weight, and smooth, in a running via acclimation sort of way. It finishes well off-dry, the fruity dull malt still the biggest game in town, as the non-existent spices and meek yeast disappear while the disappearin's good.

If they had the humility to just call this an American Wheat Ale, then perhaps I might be more forgiving, for this isn't really all that bad. But they had to go and splatter "Hefeweizen" front and center on the label. Live and die by the sword, I guess. Sweet, malty, and a tad yeasty, that's about it - drinkable if you're throwing your hands in the air (and just don't care), but otherwise, not worth anyone's time, especially to decipher all their marketing and brewing bullshit.