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Heavy Weizen (Imperial Unfiltered Wheat Ale)
Southern Tier Brewing Company
- From:
- Southern Tier Brewing Company
- New York, United States
- Style:
- Hefeweizen
- ABV:
- 8%
- Score:
- 87
- Avg:
- 3.86 | pDev: 10.62%
- Reviews:
- 200
- Ratings:
- Status:
- Retired
- Rated:
- Sep 02, 2015
- Added:
- Sep 24, 2006
- Wants:
- 12
- Gots:
- 2
No description / notes.
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Ratings by mnj21655:
Reviewed by mnj21655 from Massachusetts
2.98/5 rDev -22.8%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 2.5 | feel: 3 | overall: 3
2.98/5 rDev -22.8%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 2.5 | feel: 3 | overall: 3
22oz. bottle. No freshness date. Poured into a weizen glass.
Pours a cloudy pale golden-straw with a finger of white head and sticky lacing. Smell is initially just spicyness. After a few whiffs I am able to detect the aromas normally present in weizenbiers: wheat, yeast, bananas, and in this case so lemons. Taste was much like the aroma. Spicyness was dominant. There were cloves in there as well as the banana, wheat and yeast flavors. All the flavors are exaggerated here. They blend together well at first but then at the finish they come together unpleasantly and really linger. Its a real hard flavor to describe but in other styles I might find it enjoyable but in a weizenbier, with no other bold flavors to accompany it, its unwelcome. The more of this I had the less noticeable it became but then all of the flavors seemed more subdued after a few healthy sips. Mouthfeel is ok, a bit heavy, maybe medium, leaning towards full, in body with moderate carbonation. In terms of drinkability I can't rate this very high. I simply have no urge to have another. Overall I was actually a bit disappointed. The exaggerated flavors came together in an unpleasant way that hangs around much too long.
Aug 26, 2007Pours a cloudy pale golden-straw with a finger of white head and sticky lacing. Smell is initially just spicyness. After a few whiffs I am able to detect the aromas normally present in weizenbiers: wheat, yeast, bananas, and in this case so lemons. Taste was much like the aroma. Spicyness was dominant. There were cloves in there as well as the banana, wheat and yeast flavors. All the flavors are exaggerated here. They blend together well at first but then at the finish they come together unpleasantly and really linger. Its a real hard flavor to describe but in other styles I might find it enjoyable but in a weizenbier, with no other bold flavors to accompany it, its unwelcome. The more of this I had the less noticeable it became but then all of the flavors seemed more subdued after a few healthy sips. Mouthfeel is ok, a bit heavy, maybe medium, leaning towards full, in body with moderate carbonation. In terms of drinkability I can't rate this very high. I simply have no urge to have another. Overall I was actually a bit disappointed. The exaggerated flavors came together in an unpleasant way that hangs around much too long.
More User Ratings:
Reviewed by superspak from North Carolina
3.88/5 rDev +0.5%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
3.88/5 rDev +0.5%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
22 ounce bottle into weizen glass, no bottle dating but this has been retired for a couple years at least. Pours very hazy golden amber color with a fairly dense 1-2 finger white head with good retention, that reduces to a nice cap that lingers. Spotty foamy lacing on the glass. Aromas of big banana, lemon, pear, wheat, caramel, honey, clove, bread, orange, pepper, bubblegum, earth, and yeast spices. Pretty nice aromas with good strength and decent balance; the age is definitely apparent. Taste of banana, orange, clove, pear, wheat, biscuit, caramel, lemon, pepper, honey, earth, toffee, and yeast spices. Lingering notes of banana, light fruits, wheat, biscuit, clove, caramel, pepper, and yeast spices on the finish for a good bit. Nice balance and complexity of flavors; good fruity/spicy flavor balance; zero cloying flavors after the finish. Medium carbonation and medium-full bodied; with a slick and creamy mouthfeel that is good. Alcohol is very well hidden with only a slight warming noticed after the finish. Overall this is a very nice imperial hefeweizen. Nice balance and complexity of flavors; and very smooth to drink for an 8% beer. Very enjoyable offering, despite the noticeable age.
Nov 12, 2012Reviewed by LiquidAmber from Washington
3.7/5 rDev -4.1%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
3.7/5 rDev -4.1%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
Review from 2/2010 notes. Poured into a Gulden Draak tulip. Pours a medium orange gold amber with a thin off-white head with decent retention. Aroma of wheat, banana, cloves and other Belgian spices. Flavor follows, with Wheat, banana and clove elements, almost like a cross between a tripel and a weizen. Has an odd bitter taste in the middle and end. Medium bodied. An odd take on a hefeweizen, but interesting.
Aug 07, 2012Reviewed by AdamBear from Pennsylvania
3.43/5 rDev -11.1%
look: 5 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 3 | feel: 2.5 | overall: 3
3.43/5 rDev -11.1%
look: 5 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 3 | feel: 2.5 | overall: 3
Found a bottle of this in a liquor store in Rehoboth Beach. I now see that its retired. I hope its still good!
A-cloudy gold with a large frothy cream colored head
S-smells like bananas, nectarines, and cloves. very good smelling. strong scent.
T-comes in with a strong and bitter taste of wheat, bananas, and cloves. there's also a hint of alcohol to it. the after-taste has a plasticy bitterness with a hint of the wheat. its an odd and unbalanced beer.
M-creamy with very low carbonation and a watery finish.
O-the idea of a strong hefe really intrigued me, but as i expected it really isn't well done. i have a feeling that if Southern Tier toned this down a bit, that it could be a very drinkable beer, yet never reaching the greatness of the German hefes.I think ST knows this, so they amped the beer up to be an imperial hefe so that it had some sort of allure to it. I'm glad i tried this, i'll finish the bomber with a smile, but i won't get this again.
Feb 21, 2012A-cloudy gold with a large frothy cream colored head
S-smells like bananas, nectarines, and cloves. very good smelling. strong scent.
T-comes in with a strong and bitter taste of wheat, bananas, and cloves. there's also a hint of alcohol to it. the after-taste has a plasticy bitterness with a hint of the wheat. its an odd and unbalanced beer.
M-creamy with very low carbonation and a watery finish.
O-the idea of a strong hefe really intrigued me, but as i expected it really isn't well done. i have a feeling that if Southern Tier toned this down a bit, that it could be a very drinkable beer, yet never reaching the greatness of the German hefes.I think ST knows this, so they amped the beer up to be an imperial hefe so that it had some sort of allure to it. I'm glad i tried this, i'll finish the bomber with a smile, but i won't get this again.
Heavy Weizen (Imperial Unfiltered Wheat Ale) from Southern Tier Brewing Company
Beer rating:
87 out of
100 with
239 ratings
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