Wind Valley Weizen
Wind Valley Brewery / Rakuno Okoku Kabushiki Kaisha Brewery

Wind Valley WeizenWind Valley Weizen
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From:
Wind Valley Brewery / Rakuno Okoku Kabushiki Kaisha Brewery
 
Japan
Style:
Hefeweizen
ABV:
5%
Score:
+7 ratings needed
Avg:
4.02 | pDev: 0.75%
Ratings:
3 | reviews: 3
Status:
Retired
Rated:
Aug 08, 2004
Added:
Jul 04, 2003
Wants:
  0
Gots:
  0
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Recent ratings and reviews.
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Reviewed by donnebaby from North Carolina

3.98/5  rDev -1%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 4
Poured with a stiff neck head, cream white with big bubbles poking out of the merangue-like mass. Totally opaque frosty white gold color. Presentable.

Smell was bananas and oranges, powdery, with some yeastiness floating off. As it warmed, it grew meatier.

The taste was mild wit beer, citrusy and refreshing, but this, too, seemed to grow meatier, and wheatier, as it warmed. Next to no hops, with only a tad of dryness. Mild and mellow. The best part for me was the light sweet wheat finish heading towards sweet corn.

Much thinner in body than I expected from this unfiltered beauty. Sharp, fizzy carbonation. Especially drinkable for its being less sweet than other Japanese weizens I've had.
Aug 08, 2004
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Reviewed by feloniousmonk from Minnesota

4.05/5  rDev +0.7%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 4.5
Sampled via the beneficence of UncleJimbo...
Cloudy, pale yellow color, small, short-lived white head.(Addendum: further pourings show a larger bit of foam on top, so maybe I poured it wrong at first?)
Aroma: BAM! Banana! Plus citrus, lemon, a touch of spice...but banana esters rule this roost!
...and they dominate the flavor, as well! Quite a sweet little weizen, with a mild wheat texture, very smooth, easy drinkability. Taste is fresh, refreshing, delicious. Feels just right for a weizen, although the banana aspect is far more pronounced than I'd like...but I'm not complaining too much, it's a very tasty little beer.
I can't make out a thing on the label, all in Japanese, except that it hails from the Valley of Wind, and is organic. Well, hooray!, and it's tastes great, too!
Thanks again to UncleJimbo!
Jul 18, 2003
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Reviewed by UncleJimbo from Massachusetts

4.03/5  rDev +0.2%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
Purchased in Tokyo. 330 mL brown bottle, capped. No English mention of the style of beer on the bottle, but the caps seem to be color coded. This one had a lime green cap, and on the cap was stamped WEIZEN and a Best Before date.

This hefeweizen poured a cloudy, yellow-amber color with creamy, white foam that persisted and left nice lace on the glass. There was quite a large amount of sediment in the bottle. The smell was mild: banana, wheat, malt. The smell was strongest initially, but faded by the end of the glass. The taste was slightly sweet and fruity (banana) but this gave way to malt and wheat flavors and then a nice hoppy finish. The taste was good, but a little on the thin side. The mouthfeel was smooth with a dry finish. The body was medium and the carbonation light. There was a pleasant bitter hop mixed with faint banana aftertaste. This was a good, refreshing (and organic) hefeweizen.
Jul 04, 2003