Summer Haze Honey Hefe
Hoyne Brewing Co.
- From:
- Hoyne Brewing Co.
- British Columbia, Canada
- Style:
- Hefeweizen
- ABV:
- 5.1%
- Score:
- 85
- Avg:
- 3.76 | pDev: 8.78%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 6
- Status:
- Inactive
- Rated:
- Jun 28, 2018
- Added:
- Jul 07, 2012
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 5
SCORE
85
Very Good
85
Very Good
On a sunny summer day, just like today, the Great and Wonderful Oz set sail in his hot-air balloon. As ballast, some say, his basket was loaded to the brim with Hoyne Hefeweizen. After lift-off, his thirst gathered like a summer storm. Quenching it, he lightened his load, and found himself carried delightfully away. The rest, as they say, is his story.
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Reviewed by DanfromVan from Canada (BC)
4.34/5 rDev +15.4%
look: 4 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
4.34/5 rDev +15.4%
look: 4 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
Quest for a summer beer brought me to pick up a 750 ml sample.
Found it all quite pleasant. A little touch of spice or lemon or vanilla would push this further up the charts for me, but overall I was very impressed. A slightly richer summer beer, with a luxurious bit of mouthfeel.
Would buy/will buy again .,....six packs or cans of the smaller size would be def on my list, to introduce to some of my stalwart rice beer buddies, who would be living la vida lujo....
Aug 27, 2017Found it all quite pleasant. A little touch of spice or lemon or vanilla would push this further up the charts for me, but overall I was very impressed. A slightly richer summer beer, with a luxurious bit of mouthfeel.
Would buy/will buy again .,....six packs or cans of the smaller size would be def on my list, to introduce to some of my stalwart rice beer buddies, who would be living la vida lujo....
Reviewed by biboergosum from Canada (AB)
3.63/5 rDev -3.5%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.5
3.63/5 rDev -3.5%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.5
650ml bottle, procured in the local (actually open) liquor store on a rainy summer evening in Radium, BC.
This beer pours a hazy, yet bright medium golden amber hue, with one finger of puffy, loosely foamy, and somewhat bubbly off-white head, which leaves a bit of splotchy island group lace around the glass as things evenly melt away.
It smells of mildly spicy wheat grain, earthy, kind of dry honey, a muddled and faint pepper mill dustiness, lazy yeast, and tame leafy, weedy, and herbal hop bitters. The taste is dry, crackery pale and wheat malt, still underwhelming honeyed cereal notes, subtle black and white pepper spice, and more plain leafy, herbal, and dead grassy hops.
The bubbles are mostly just frivolous in their meek and ethereal frothiness, the body a decent middleweight, and generally smooth, I suppose, a wee honeyed essence buoying things to a certain degree. It finishes off-dry, barely, as the hops turn musty, but still affable, while the mixed graininess and bee poop trundle onward.
As I'm not a longtime (or recent, to really put things in perspective) hefeweizen fan, I felt a bit cheated by the understated honey character, and not quite lifted by the equally bland style adherence evident here. End result? An easy drinking, um, something, which apparently doesn't have to give two shits about labels, and that's more than enough for me to follow through on this bomber.
Aug 04, 2015This beer pours a hazy, yet bright medium golden amber hue, with one finger of puffy, loosely foamy, and somewhat bubbly off-white head, which leaves a bit of splotchy island group lace around the glass as things evenly melt away.
It smells of mildly spicy wheat grain, earthy, kind of dry honey, a muddled and faint pepper mill dustiness, lazy yeast, and tame leafy, weedy, and herbal hop bitters. The taste is dry, crackery pale and wheat malt, still underwhelming honeyed cereal notes, subtle black and white pepper spice, and more plain leafy, herbal, and dead grassy hops.
The bubbles are mostly just frivolous in their meek and ethereal frothiness, the body a decent middleweight, and generally smooth, I suppose, a wee honeyed essence buoying things to a certain degree. It finishes off-dry, barely, as the hops turn musty, but still affable, while the mixed graininess and bee poop trundle onward.
As I'm not a longtime (or recent, to really put things in perspective) hefeweizen fan, I felt a bit cheated by the understated honey character, and not quite lifted by the equally bland style adherence evident here. End result? An easy drinking, um, something, which apparently doesn't have to give two shits about labels, and that's more than enough for me to follow through on this bomber.
Reviewed by Derek from Canada (BC)
3.94/5 rDev +4.8%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
3.94/5 rDev +4.8%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
The German yeast character is rather subdued so it sort of bridges the gap between an American Wheat and a true hefe.
There's a nice malt backbone (Gambrinus honey malt no doubt), but I'd be surprised if the grist was more than 50% wheat.
Slight residual sweetness enhances the honey flavour, without being too sweet.
Nice brew.
Jul 03, 2013There's a nice malt backbone (Gambrinus honey malt no doubt), but I'd be surprised if the grist was more than 50% wheat.
Slight residual sweetness enhances the honey flavour, without being too sweet.
Nice brew.
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