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Memminger Brauerei

500 ml bottle drunk at a balcony in Bucharest centre.

Pale, cloudy orange color.
Strong smell: wheat, yeast and banana.
Taste is strong and pleasant.
Body feels light and smooth and carbonation is low, making it very drinkable.

I liked it.

500ml bottle from Non-Stop Mini Market, Bucharest (11.90 lei):
Dark, hazy golden topped with a 1cm, fine-bubbly white head that holds steady. Citrus, wheat & banana open the nose with zesty notes & a little spice. It's yeasty further on with a bit of sweetness & faint bubblegum coming through as well; a standard hefeweizen nose. The taste is quite zesty with an effervescent feel & banana flavours dominating. There's a touch more bubblegum here & a subtle, unexpected bitterness - it's okay not the best of the style though. It's a fairly standard hefeweizen, the balance isn't the best but it's okay with a lot of banana sweetness throughout & quite a bit of carbonation - not one I'd go for in Germany but it's drinkable.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Maybe a bit better than the pale ale from the same brewery, but still off by a long shot from how a decent weizen should taste like. I might have been unlucky with a bad bottle.

 

 

 

 

A bold attempt on the Romanian market, bringing a (mostly) unknown style of beer to the public under a Romanian traditional label, but it does have its charm,and not only for the local market. This should be nice, being brewed by Memminger, hopefully they don't just ship their weakest batch over here.

Looks like a typical weizen, nice head, maybe just a bit too much fizz. The mouthfeel follows suit, the carbonation should have been a tad lower.
Smells nice, classic banana and clove, also a slight green herbal scent.
Taste is nice. Not a heavy wheaty weizen, but with a classic balance between the banana fruitiness (with some faint green apple), the classic spice (nicely scented clove) and the dense wheaty malt. The hoppy bitterness is decent in the finish, but still not the star of this (and many other) weizen.
Locally, the price is lower than any other imported bottled weizens, and it does surpass some of them in quality. A nice classic weizen, a nice session beer, more than decent actually.