Kristall Weizen
Live Oak Brewing Company
- From:
- Live Oak Brewing Company
- Texas, United States
- Style:
- Kristallweizen
- ABV:
- 5%
- Score:
- +6 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.85 | pDev: 7.01%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 1
- Status:
- Active
- Rated:
- Oct 28, 2025
- Added:
- Oct 19, 2021
- Wants:
- 1
- Gots:
- 0
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A Baden Württemberg-Style Kristall Weizen. This is a unique variation of the style made with German lager yeast, half pale wheat malt, and filtered brite. In this beer, the lager yeast produces some passion fruit aroma to enjoy alongside the pale but full malt flavors.
Recent ratings and reviews.
Rated by ttoadee from Texas
3.85/5 rDev 0%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
3.85/5 rDev 0%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
RB transfer
Oct 28, 2025
Reviewed by Jugs_McGhee from Texas
3.43/5 rDev -10.9%
look: 3.25 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
3.43/5 rDev -10.9%
look: 3.25 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
Sixer nabbed at Live Oak brewing this week for ~$12 USD plus tax. Can is 12 fl oz, pull-tab, and unlabelled.
APPEARANCE: Clear and bright, true to the style. Pale yellow in colour. Clean looking/filtered.
Head is healthy and lasts ~5 minutes.
AROMA: Vitamin-y yeast is present albeit not as rife with esters and/or phenols as I'd expect. Traces of bubblegum, some banana. No real spicy clove. Banana bread. Flaked wheat. Pale malt.
Pleasant and yeast-driven but not as rich with yeasty aromatics as I hoped it'd be. It's not shaping up to be the filtered answer to Live Oak's Hefeweizen I expected coming in.
TASTE & TEXTURE: Clean drinking and enjoyable with subtle yeast flavours popping atop a clean pale malt and wheat backbone. Not as deeply flavoured as Live Oak's Hefeweizen, and the yeasty flavours that pop so well in that beer are subdued here in comparison.
Smooth, wet, perfectly carbonated, refreshing.
OVERALL: It's a balanced wheat ale but I'd sooner buy Weihenstephan's expression of the style. Not up there with New Glarus' attempt either. I guess I'm glad I tried it and it's certainly faithful to tradition, but I've come to expect top tier German style beers from Live Oak, and this isn't quite up to par - good as it is.
B- / WORTHY
Nov 14, 2021APPEARANCE: Clear and bright, true to the style. Pale yellow in colour. Clean looking/filtered.
Head is healthy and lasts ~5 minutes.
AROMA: Vitamin-y yeast is present albeit not as rife with esters and/or phenols as I'd expect. Traces of bubblegum, some banana. No real spicy clove. Banana bread. Flaked wheat. Pale malt.
Pleasant and yeast-driven but not as rich with yeasty aromatics as I hoped it'd be. It's not shaping up to be the filtered answer to Live Oak's Hefeweizen I expected coming in.
TASTE & TEXTURE: Clean drinking and enjoyable with subtle yeast flavours popping atop a clean pale malt and wheat backbone. Not as deeply flavoured as Live Oak's Hefeweizen, and the yeasty flavours that pop so well in that beer are subdued here in comparison.
Smooth, wet, perfectly carbonated, refreshing.
OVERALL: It's a balanced wheat ale but I'd sooner buy Weihenstephan's expression of the style. Not up there with New Glarus' attempt either. I guess I'm glad I tried it and it's certainly faithful to tradition, but I've come to expect top tier German style beers from Live Oak, and this isn't quite up to par - good as it is.
B- / WORTHY
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