Pszeniczniak
Browar Amber

 

 

 

 

500 ml silk print bottle, from Vinmonopolet. ABV is 5.2%, extract 12,1% by weight. Very cloudy pale yellow colour, huge white head. Aroma of grain, decaying vegetables and banana, hints of citrus and cloves. Refreshing flavour, wheaty with some sweetness, banana, decaying fruits and cloves. Definitely drinkable, but not as good as the best German hefeweizens.

L- Pale to mid gold, materially cloudy despite care on handling/pouring, pours with an eager to form 3Cm foamy white head.
S- It's immediately clear from the smell it's a hefe. All the notes incl mild spicing.
T- It tastes like a Hefe, but it's taste is a bit errr ... 'brighter' than I experience and enjoy in the big German classic Hefes. I'm not sure if this is due to higher hop levels or because the Mouthfeel is, relatively speaking, a bit lacking
F- As above it feels a bit thin on my palate.
O- The look is good as is it's smell. The taste is underwhelming - 'bright' - versus what ought to be possible from a foundation of 5.2%ABV. The feel is rather light due to the same imbalance. Entirely drinkable just nothing special for me. Do a side-by-side comparison with something like a Weihenstephaner hefe and all will fast become clear.
500ml bottle BB: 31/01/2021 Bought from BeersOfEurope/UK for home delivery.

ps the labelling appears to have significantly changed. Ths captioned^ looks like an ink logo on the reverse of the bottle... you can see the reversed front lable behind it. Either way, it's no longer there and it's now paper lables, front/back/neck, far more trad looking, plus prominent decoration in raised glass patterning around the neck

 

 

My bottle is different than the photo as it replaces the Polish Pszeniczniak with the English Amber Wheat.
(This alone is a huge improvement for people like me who find Polish to be completely impenetrable.)

Amber Wheat Looks great (full of foam that becomes a coreograph of active swirling protein for few minutes... then calms.)
Smells drop a notch as I get the wheat and citrus/lemon, but I miss the style's typical hefe-banana.
Tastes drop further as this really cannot match the rich complex, flavors of the yeast Bavarian masters, often, inherited.
It sits in my mouth OK, but the wheat makes it wonderfully soft.

I Had Amber with lunch of a burger with mustard sauce. Went fine.
Since this was my first from this Browar, I went on their website and can honestly say that if it weren't for the pictures I would have no idea what was being said.

Pours hazy, pale yellow in color with one inch head. Taste is bananas, cloves and wheat. Medium bodied, sweet with moderate moderate carbonation. Tasty solid wheat beer.

 

A: The beer is very hazy yellow in color—too hazy to see if there is any visible carbonation. It poured with a finger high bright white head that slowly died down and consistently left a quarter finger high layer of bubbles covering the surface and thick specks of bubbles clinging to the edges of the glass.
S: Moderate aromas of banana-like yeast are present in the nose along with notes of wheat.
T: The taste follows the smell and has a blend of banana and wheat flavors. No clove-like spices are perceptible.
M: It feels a bit more than light-bodied on the palate and has a moderate amount of carbonation.
O: This beer has a very good balance between the banana and wheat flavors in the taste.

Note: Bottle labeled as "Amber Wheat"

Serving type: bottle

Looks like an IPA, great foam consistency, not too airy...

Aroma is very West Coast IPA like, without the bitterness.

Quite wheatey, not a fan. Tastes like banana juice mixed with hot cross buns

Pours a cloudy maize color. One inch head of an off-white color. Decent retention and slight lacing. Smells of coriander, slight clove, wheat, and slight pale malt. Fits the style of a Hefeweizen. Mouth feel is sharp and crisp, with a high carbonation level. Tastes of coriander, slight clove, wheat, hint of hop, and slight pale malt. Overall, decent appearance, average aroma, body, and blend.

 

I'm trying a few beers from eastern Europe tonight, this being the first. Poured from a brown 16.9 oz. bottle. Has a very cloudy golden color with a 1/2 inch head. Smell is of bananas, cloves. Taste is wheat, some banana, a bit of an unusual, green apple like flavor as well. Feels medium/full bodied in the mouth and overall is a solid beer.