Stirling Hefeweizen
Breton Brewing Co.
- From:
- Breton Brewing Co.
- Nova Scotia, Canada
- Style:
- Hefeweizen
- ABV:
- 4.6%
- Score:
- +3 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.82 | pDev: 6.54%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 3
- Status:
- Inactive
- Rated:
- Jun 06, 2020
- Added:
- Nov 18, 2016
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 1
NO SCORE
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Stirling: the German beer named after a Scottish Earl. The same Earl who gave Nova Scotia its flag. Confused? Don’t be. At Breton, we do what we please. In this case, a light, refreshing Hefeweizen (half wheat) beer that’s 60% wheat, 40% barley, brewed to let the clove and banana aromas kick arse. If we want to name it after a Brit or wear white after labour day, we will. So go ahead. Colour outside the lines. Drink the German beer brewed in Canada named after a Scotsman.
Grains: Wheat, Pilsen
Yeast: Ale
Hops: Hallertauer
OG: 1.048
FG: 1.012
IBU: 15
Grains: Wheat, Pilsen
Yeast: Ale
Hops: Hallertauer
OG: 1.048
FG: 1.012
IBU: 15
Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by biboergosum from Canada (AB)
3.74/5 rDev -2.1%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 4
3.74/5 rDev -2.1%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 4
473ml can - I actually like and appreciate the bravado in the marketing spiel here.
This beer pours a clear, medium golden yellow colour, with four fingers of puffy, finely foamy, and mildly fizzy bone-white head, which leaves some decent island cay pattern lace around the glass as it slowly seeps out of sight.
It smells of grainy and bready cereal malt, banana pudding, some mixed earthy spiciness, estery yeast, and some plain leafy, weedy, and dead floral noble hoppiness. The taste is semi-sweet, gritty and crackery wheat malt, damp banana chips, bland cloves, some livelier peppery notes, a subtle earthy yeastiness, and more understated musty, herbal, and musky floral hop bitters.
The carbonation is fairly tame in its palate-pleasing frothiness, the body a solid middleweight, and generally smooth, with nothing really getting in the way of a so-so time at this particular juncture. It finishes trending dry, the malt losing a touch of steam, as the dried banana and spices put on their menacing guises.
Overall - this comes across as an agreeable enough version of the style, all naming conventions aside. True to its origins, and worth sampling, as an example of how our world is now so bloody and inextricably connected.
Apr 12, 2020This beer pours a clear, medium golden yellow colour, with four fingers of puffy, finely foamy, and mildly fizzy bone-white head, which leaves some decent island cay pattern lace around the glass as it slowly seeps out of sight.
It smells of grainy and bready cereal malt, banana pudding, some mixed earthy spiciness, estery yeast, and some plain leafy, weedy, and dead floral noble hoppiness. The taste is semi-sweet, gritty and crackery wheat malt, damp banana chips, bland cloves, some livelier peppery notes, a subtle earthy yeastiness, and more understated musty, herbal, and musky floral hop bitters.
The carbonation is fairly tame in its palate-pleasing frothiness, the body a solid middleweight, and generally smooth, with nothing really getting in the way of a so-so time at this particular juncture. It finishes trending dry, the malt losing a touch of steam, as the dried banana and spices put on their menacing guises.
Overall - this comes across as an agreeable enough version of the style, all naming conventions aside. True to its origins, and worth sampling, as an example of how our world is now so bloody and inextricably connected.
Reviewed by leaddog from Canada (AB)
3.98/5 rDev +4.2%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
3.98/5 rDev +4.2%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
Appearance - Pours a hazy straw with four fingers of frothy white head.
Smell - banana, clove, coriander, spicy earthy and floral hops, bubblegum aromas, bready malts, spicy earthy yeast.
Taste - mild banana, clove, and coriander upfront. The bubblegum aromas, spicy earthy and floral hops are mild as well. The bready malts and earthy yeast round out the brew.
Mouthfeel - Medium bodied with moderate carbonation. Finishes off-dry with the mild banana, clove, coriander, and pepper lingering.
Overall - A hefe that started out fantastic. Not sure where all the flavours went in the taste as they were very mild. Nonetheless, a respectable brew.
Dec 27, 2019Smell - banana, clove, coriander, spicy earthy and floral hops, bubblegum aromas, bready malts, spicy earthy yeast.
Taste - mild banana, clove, and coriander upfront. The bubblegum aromas, spicy earthy and floral hops are mild as well. The bready malts and earthy yeast round out the brew.
Mouthfeel - Medium bodied with moderate carbonation. Finishes off-dry with the mild banana, clove, coriander, and pepper lingering.
Overall - A hefe that started out fantastic. Not sure where all the flavours went in the taste as they were very mild. Nonetheless, a respectable brew.
Reviewed by johnnnniee from New Hampshire
4.12/5 rDev +7.9%
look: 4 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
4.12/5 rDev +7.9%
look: 4 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
Catching up some rates from last weeks trip to Newfoundland. Taster at the source. Slightly hazy deep yellow color with a big bubbly white head that persists. Bits of clove and banana with a sweet honey like maltiness. I really enjoyed this beer.
Jul 07, 2018
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