Schöfferhofer Hefeweizen Passion Fruit Bier
Binding-Brauerei AG
- From:
- Binding-Brauerei AG
- Germany
- Style:
- Hefeweizen
Ranked #429 - ABV:
- 2.5%
- Score:
- 80
Ranked #36,494 - Avg:
- 3.33 | pDev: 14.11%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 7
- Status:
- Active
- Rated:
- Jul 08, 2024
- Added:
- Jul 06, 2021
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 1
SCORE
80
Good
80
Good
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Reviewed by ironprog from Florida
3.22/5 rDev -3.3%
look: 3 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3 | feel: 3 | overall: 3.5
3.22/5 rDev -3.3%
look: 3 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3 | feel: 3 | overall: 3.5
Note: I am in the process of moving all of my ratings from other beer sites to here, so that all of my ratings are consolidated in one place. The review below is an exact copy of my original RateBeer review from 06/18/2023.
11.2 oz. can, 2.5% ABV, Best Before: 09.21.23
AROMA: Strong scent of passion fruit and nothing else.
APPEARANCE: Pours a cloudy, medium gold with a tall, white, tightly frothy head that dissipates slowly with moderate lacing.
TASTE: It's moderately sweet with a nice amount of passion fruit flavor which is then followed by a touch of tartness in the finish.
MOUTHFEEL: Medium-bodied with slightly watery texture. Carbonation is about average.
OVERALL: Let's face it. With such a low ABV, this really shouldn't be classified as a beer. I wouldn't even classify it as a Radler/Shandy. It's more like a fruit juice with a splash of beer. Having said that, the fruit juice is fairly tasty. I just wish it weren't as watery as it is, and had a little more heft/body. Other than that, it makes for a nice, low-alcohol drink that is refreshing on a hot day and perfect for pool parties or BBQs.
Jul 08, 202411.2 oz. can, 2.5% ABV, Best Before: 09.21.23
AROMA: Strong scent of passion fruit and nothing else.
APPEARANCE: Pours a cloudy, medium gold with a tall, white, tightly frothy head that dissipates slowly with moderate lacing.
TASTE: It's moderately sweet with a nice amount of passion fruit flavor which is then followed by a touch of tartness in the finish.
MOUTHFEEL: Medium-bodied with slightly watery texture. Carbonation is about average.
OVERALL: Let's face it. With such a low ABV, this really shouldn't be classified as a beer. I wouldn't even classify it as a Radler/Shandy. It's more like a fruit juice with a splash of beer. Having said that, the fruit juice is fairly tasty. I just wish it weren't as watery as it is, and had a little more heft/body. Other than that, it makes for a nice, low-alcohol drink that is refreshing on a hot day and perfect for pool parties or BBQs.
Reviewed by Jugs_McGhee from Texas
2.88/5 rDev -13.5%
look: 3 | smell: 3 | taste: 2.75 | feel: 2.75 | overall: 3
2.88/5 rDev -13.5%
look: 3 | smell: 3 | taste: 2.75 | feel: 2.75 | overall: 3
A drinkable not unrefreshing beer, though it's a bastardized fruited hefeweizen with a shandy-tier ABV and I feel more comfortable putting this in the shandy/radler category than the hefeweizen one.
Candy-like sweetness isn't unpleasant per se, inasmuch as drinking a hefeweizen someone accidentally dropped a Jolly Rancher (or four) into an hour ago isn't unpleasant. Not what I'd call ideal, nevertheless.
If you limit me to apples-to-apples comparisons (so to speak), one need look no further than the Grapefruit Hefeweizen Schöfferhofer packages in their 12-pack variety boxes (right next to this beer) as a superior example of a canned radler available in the U.S. market.
This is the kind of forgettable shlock I'd really only get again to haul poolside or beachside in the Summer. Crushable after an afternoon surfing, I suppose, but it ain't going toe to toe with the Live Oak or Ayinger brewed hefeweizens of the world, and call me crazy but I'd sooner crush Leinenkugel's shandies.
C / AVERAGE
Oct 08, 2023Candy-like sweetness isn't unpleasant per se, inasmuch as drinking a hefeweizen someone accidentally dropped a Jolly Rancher (or four) into an hour ago isn't unpleasant. Not what I'd call ideal, nevertheless.
If you limit me to apples-to-apples comparisons (so to speak), one need look no further than the Grapefruit Hefeweizen Schöfferhofer packages in their 12-pack variety boxes (right next to this beer) as a superior example of a canned radler available in the U.S. market.
This is the kind of forgettable shlock I'd really only get again to haul poolside or beachside in the Summer. Crushable after an afternoon surfing, I suppose, but it ain't going toe to toe with the Live Oak or Ayinger brewed hefeweizens of the world, and call me crazy but I'd sooner crush Leinenkugel's shandies.
C / AVERAGE
Reviewed by Lucular from Maryland
3.15/5 rDev -5.4%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3 | feel: 3 | overall: 3
3.15/5 rDev -5.4%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3 | feel: 3 | overall: 3
Poured from a clear bottle into a tulip pint glass. I love passionfruit but this beer is simply too sweet. It does have some real passionfruit flavor but not much, and it's overpowered by the hard candy sweetness. Overall, not a terrible choice for a poolside beer but I won't be buying this beer again.
Jul 17, 2023
Reviewed by jlindros from Massachusetts
2.54/5 rDev -23.7%
look: 4 | smell: 2.5 | taste: 2.5 | feel: 3 | overall: 2
2.54/5 rDev -23.7%
look: 4 | smell: 2.5 | taste: 2.5 | feel: 3 | overall: 2
Clear bottle!!! Ewww... bottled 2021/07/22
Pours a large frothy creamy 1.5 finger head with great retention, good soapy lacing, semi clear semi hazy straw color
Nose smells like sweet artificial fruit, not even really passionfruit, a bit of doughy wheat, creamy as well, a perfumey floral character that I think comes from the passionfruit juice or extract,
Taste sweet again, and also the artificial fruit flavoring, some sweet passionfruit extract, but a more generic sweet tropical flavoring I'd expect to get in a cheap popsicle, a touch of creamy doughy wheat, and banana, semi dry but semi sweet finish
Mouth is med to lighter bod, a touch creamy, med to lighter small bubble carb
Overall not good, this was made for kids to drink in Germany I think
Jun 12, 2022Pours a large frothy creamy 1.5 finger head with great retention, good soapy lacing, semi clear semi hazy straw color
Nose smells like sweet artificial fruit, not even really passionfruit, a bit of doughy wheat, creamy as well, a perfumey floral character that I think comes from the passionfruit juice or extract,
Taste sweet again, and also the artificial fruit flavoring, some sweet passionfruit extract, but a more generic sweet tropical flavoring I'd expect to get in a cheap popsicle, a touch of creamy doughy wheat, and banana, semi dry but semi sweet finish
Mouth is med to lighter bod, a touch creamy, med to lighter small bubble carb
Overall not good, this was made for kids to drink in Germany I think
Reviewed by WunderLlama from Massachusetts
3.48/5 rDev +4.5%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.5
3.48/5 rDev +4.5%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.5
Can poured into a stemmed goblet
Creamy white foam cap over a hazed golden liquid
Aroma is passionfruit, guava , yeasty
Slightly sweet passionfruit, slight yeast
Smooth fizzy almost creamy
Good quaffable low alcohol pool drink
Feb 21, 2022Creamy white foam cap over a hazed golden liquid
Aroma is passionfruit, guava , yeasty
Slightly sweet passionfruit, slight yeast
Smooth fizzy almost creamy
Good quaffable low alcohol pool drink
Reviewed by mikeinportc from New York
3.26/5 rDev -2.1%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3
3.26/5 rDev -2.1%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3
Lightly hazy gold, with slight, quickly-dissipating white head.
Smells more of mango + guava than passion fruit. Then again, there are lots of species of Passiflora, not sure what's in this one, so...???? Not getting any of the usual hefeweizen aromas. There are brief flashes of a mild doughy/yeasty smell, but it's immediately superseded by the fruit .
Taste is reminiscent of the OG wine coolers from the late 80s/early 90s (You had to be there. ;) ), with a moderate, vague tropical fruit mix, that leans mango, overlaying some light malt liquor flavor.
Feel is light-medium, juicy, with light, very fine carbonation tingle. Finish & aftertaste are , oddly, like the dry finish of grapefruit soda.
Overall, it's OK. It'd be better on a hot summer day. Just drink it cold, & fairly quickly . One is fine, as a switch-up from the usual, but I wouldn't want a 6pk. There's good reason for wine coolers falling out of favor. ;)
Jan 07, 2022Smells more of mango + guava than passion fruit. Then again, there are lots of species of Passiflora, not sure what's in this one, so...???? Not getting any of the usual hefeweizen aromas. There are brief flashes of a mild doughy/yeasty smell, but it's immediately superseded by the fruit .
Taste is reminiscent of the OG wine coolers from the late 80s/early 90s (You had to be there. ;) ), with a moderate, vague tropical fruit mix, that leans mango, overlaying some light malt liquor flavor.
Feel is light-medium, juicy, with light, very fine carbonation tingle. Finish & aftertaste are , oddly, like the dry finish of grapefruit soda.
Overall, it's OK. It'd be better on a hot summer day. Just drink it cold, & fairly quickly . One is fine, as a switch-up from the usual, but I wouldn't want a 6pk. There's good reason for wine coolers falling out of favor. ;)
Reviewed by Sabtos from Ohio
3.04/5 rDev -8.7%
look: 3.75 | smell: 2.75 | taste: 3 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3
3.04/5 rDev -8.7%
look: 3.75 | smell: 2.75 | taste: 3 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3
Slightly foggy dull amber with a tall and nearly overactive off-white foam head.
I'm at first taken aback by the almost Heine sort of skunk aroma it produces right out of bottle. However, from thereafter it's just sweet candy, and more like mango than passion fruit at that. It's not crazy sweet, mitigated by a touch of biscuit, but it's more than I would have expect compared to their grapefruit bottles, which I've had several times but apparently have never rated.
The fluffy medium body quickly becomes a little slick before finishing oddly powder dry.
Oct 30, 2021I'm at first taken aback by the almost Heine sort of skunk aroma it produces right out of bottle. However, from thereafter it's just sweet candy, and more like mango than passion fruit at that. It's not crazy sweet, mitigated by a touch of biscuit, but it's more than I would have expect compared to their grapefruit bottles, which I've had several times but apparently have never rated.
The fluffy medium body quickly becomes a little slick before finishing oddly powder dry.
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