Ridunkelous
Forked River Brewing Company
- From:
- Forked River Brewing Company
- Ontario, Canada
- Style:
- Dunkelweizen
- ABV:
- 4.8%
- Score:
- +5 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.43 | pDev: 2.62%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 3
- Status:
- Active
- Rated:
- Mar 08, 2026
- Added:
- Aug 03, 2013
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
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A dark Hefeweizen, a traditional German style of beer that pairs wheat malt with a yeast that contributes flavours of clove and banana. Remarkably light but with a slight sweetness.
Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by TheHammer from Canada (ON)
3.49/5 rDev +1.7%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3.5
3.49/5 rDev +1.7%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 3.5
Appearance: A cloudy brown body that shows some steady carbonation. The pour produced a thumbs worth of head that retained fairly modestly.
Smell: I'm definitely getting a banana funk to it, but it's got a weird off beat to it. The best way I can describe it is green bananas that are starting to show black spots. There's some kind of starch/vegetal note there that's not so pronounced I'd say it ruins it, but it throws it off. There's also some clove in the background there too but the Banana is the star and the potency is there, even with minimal warming.
Taste: Starts with restrained wheat malt before a fairly strong arrival of starchy banana and clove arrives. In then peters off into a honestly strange watery end as neutral dry note ends the strong banana and clove.
Mouthfeel: That abrupt cutoff sort of kills the transitioning of this beer, making it very much a bell curve like experience. The aftertaste, while it doesn't build too much, has a strange dry at the front, cling at the back sensation, with that off banana note being the only thing really present there. Carbonation is nice and frothy to start, but peters off around the 2/3rds done mark.
Drinkability: Surprisingly on the lighter side of medium body, and while it settles down well, and is quite refreshing, that's not quite what I want in a Dunkelweizen. I want a mesh of malt and a potent banana hit that this offering is trying to deliver but has a weird funk to it that stops it short.
Final Thoughts: I'm not aware of many Ontario brewers who brew this style, so I was looking forward to seeing someone take a crack at it. Sadly, this missed it's mark, mainly because the banana notes seem off and that dry, not quite yeasty note that is there. If you want a proper Dunkelweizen, it would seem you want to stick to a German import at the LCBO as this one's a pass.
Mar 08, 2026Smell: I'm definitely getting a banana funk to it, but it's got a weird off beat to it. The best way I can describe it is green bananas that are starting to show black spots. There's some kind of starch/vegetal note there that's not so pronounced I'd say it ruins it, but it throws it off. There's also some clove in the background there too but the Banana is the star and the potency is there, even with minimal warming.
Taste: Starts with restrained wheat malt before a fairly strong arrival of starchy banana and clove arrives. In then peters off into a honestly strange watery end as neutral dry note ends the strong banana and clove.
Mouthfeel: That abrupt cutoff sort of kills the transitioning of this beer, making it very much a bell curve like experience. The aftertaste, while it doesn't build too much, has a strange dry at the front, cling at the back sensation, with that off banana note being the only thing really present there. Carbonation is nice and frothy to start, but peters off around the 2/3rds done mark.
Drinkability: Surprisingly on the lighter side of medium body, and while it settles down well, and is quite refreshing, that's not quite what I want in a Dunkelweizen. I want a mesh of malt and a potent banana hit that this offering is trying to deliver but has a weird funk to it that stops it short.
Final Thoughts: I'm not aware of many Ontario brewers who brew this style, so I was looking forward to seeing someone take a crack at it. Sadly, this missed it's mark, mainly because the banana notes seem off and that dry, not quite yeasty note that is there. If you want a proper Dunkelweizen, it would seem you want to stick to a German import at the LCBO as this one's a pass.
Reviewed by hopsolutely from Canada (ON)
3.4/5 rDev -0.9%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3 | overall: 3.25
3.4/5 rDev -0.9%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3 | overall: 3.25
Delighted that Forked River is now fully operational, but this bottle is not up to the same standard as their other two beers. It was purchased at the brewery last weekend and tastes fresh, but has almost no carbonation. Pours a hazy and amber/brown and would be attractive for the style with even a minimal head. Mouthfeel is thin, as expected by the pleasantly low ABV, but this bottle is nigh "flat".
Aroma of cloves, banana and "wheat yeast", very suited to this Germanic style. Flavour is mild and would appeal to transitioning wheat beer fans. It is well balanced and inoffensive, although again lacking the "character" of the two other beers tried on tap and in bottle last week-end.
Will definitely try any future batch again, but this specific bottle was quite disappointing.
Aug 16, 2013Aroma of cloves, banana and "wheat yeast", very suited to this Germanic style. Flavour is mild and would appeal to transitioning wheat beer fans. It is well balanced and inoffensive, although again lacking the "character" of the two other beers tried on tap and in bottle last week-end.
Will definitely try any future batch again, but this specific bottle was quite disappointing.
Reviewed by pootz from Canada (ON)
3.26/5 rDev -5%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3 | feel: 3 | overall: 3.25
3.26/5 rDev -5%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3 | feel: 3 | overall: 3.25
Bottle and on tap at the brewery - pours a clouded deep amber with a 1 finger cap. Big clove and banana in the aroma if you get it fresh. Very decent rendition of Schneider tap 5 with a little less alcohol. Refreshing and flavourful -good solid locally crafted brew.
Aug 03, 2013
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