Schalchner Weisse Hell
Weissbierbrauerei Schwendl
- From:
- Weissbierbrauerei Schwendl
- Germany
- Style:
- Hefeweizen
- ABV:
- 5.2%
- Score:
- +6 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 3.55 | pDev: 8.73%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 1
- Status:
- Active
- Rated:
- Mar 27, 2022
- Added:
- Apr 05, 2016
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
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Reviewed by Jugs_McGhee from Texas
3.14/5 rDev -11.5%
look: 2.75 | smell: 3 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3 | overall: 3.25
3.14/5 rDev -11.5%
look: 2.75 | smell: 3 | taste: 3.25 | feel: 3 | overall: 3.25
BOTTLE: 500ml format. Brown glass. Branded pry-off crown cap. Yellow-dominant neck and body labels. Best before: 07.07.16. Purchased at Getranke Oase in Munich.
Served chilled into a weizenglas. Expectations are average; I believe this is my first beer from this brewery. Reviewed live as a hefeweizen (hefeweizen bright) per the label.
HEAD: Frothy, foamy, soft-looking, and healthy, lasting a good ~10 minutes. Occupies ~60% of the glass - pretty impressive. Some messy lacing clings to the sides of the glass as it recedes.
BODY: Cloudy rather than turbid or hazy, redolent more of a witbier than a hefeweizen. The lemon yellow coloration echoes that impression. Bright but not vibrant.
Looks pretty typical of the hefeweizen style, without suggesting a great expression thereof. I notice no unique or special characteristics.
AROMA: Dry wheat dominates. Clean malted barley. A hint of lemon peel. I'm not picking up on any banana, bubblegum, or orange peel. The yeast offers only some tame biscuity character and a hint of clove. The wheat and barley malts don't come off particularly fresh or vivid.
Aromatic intensity is average. Suggests an average quality hefeweizen.
TASTE: Poorly balanced, with a subpar build. No orange peel here, just a hint of witbier-redolent lemon peel. No banana, bubblegum, or overt clove esters from the yeast - just general vitaminy biscuity characteristics. Neither the wheat malt nor the barley tastes particularly fresh or vivid.
I find no booziness or off-flavours.
TEXTURE: Not unrefreshing. Light to medium-bodied. Smooth, wet, somewhat soft. Overcarbonated.
There's no natural harmony of texture and taste here. Needs a lighter, more refreshing body, and maybe a more delicate presence on the palate. I'd like to see more of a natural carbonation as well.
OVERALL: A forgettable hefeweizen, even by international standards (i.e., not merely comparing it to other Bavarian-brewed offerings - seeing as this is the best region for hefeweizen biere in the world). There are American expressions of the style I'd happily take over this, and that's not a sentiment I espouse often. (Offerings from Dry Dock, New Glarus, and of course Live Oak come to mind). In a country (and a Western world) in which Franziskaner is available on many a supermarket shelf, I can't see this gaining any traction in the market or amongst beer enthusiasts. Mundane, but drinkable and enjoyable for what it is. I wouldn't buy it again, but I do think it's above average overall in spite of its shallowness.
C+ (3.14) / ABOVE AVERAGE
Apr 05, 2016Served chilled into a weizenglas. Expectations are average; I believe this is my first beer from this brewery. Reviewed live as a hefeweizen (hefeweizen bright) per the label.
HEAD: Frothy, foamy, soft-looking, and healthy, lasting a good ~10 minutes. Occupies ~60% of the glass - pretty impressive. Some messy lacing clings to the sides of the glass as it recedes.
BODY: Cloudy rather than turbid or hazy, redolent more of a witbier than a hefeweizen. The lemon yellow coloration echoes that impression. Bright but not vibrant.
Looks pretty typical of the hefeweizen style, without suggesting a great expression thereof. I notice no unique or special characteristics.
AROMA: Dry wheat dominates. Clean malted barley. A hint of lemon peel. I'm not picking up on any banana, bubblegum, or orange peel. The yeast offers only some tame biscuity character and a hint of clove. The wheat and barley malts don't come off particularly fresh or vivid.
Aromatic intensity is average. Suggests an average quality hefeweizen.
TASTE: Poorly balanced, with a subpar build. No orange peel here, just a hint of witbier-redolent lemon peel. No banana, bubblegum, or overt clove esters from the yeast - just general vitaminy biscuity characteristics. Neither the wheat malt nor the barley tastes particularly fresh or vivid.
I find no booziness or off-flavours.
TEXTURE: Not unrefreshing. Light to medium-bodied. Smooth, wet, somewhat soft. Overcarbonated.
There's no natural harmony of texture and taste here. Needs a lighter, more refreshing body, and maybe a more delicate presence on the palate. I'd like to see more of a natural carbonation as well.
OVERALL: A forgettable hefeweizen, even by international standards (i.e., not merely comparing it to other Bavarian-brewed offerings - seeing as this is the best region for hefeweizen biere in the world). There are American expressions of the style I'd happily take over this, and that's not a sentiment I espouse often. (Offerings from Dry Dock, New Glarus, and of course Live Oak come to mind). In a country (and a Western world) in which Franziskaner is available on many a supermarket shelf, I can't see this gaining any traction in the market or amongst beer enthusiasts. Mundane, but drinkable and enjoyable for what it is. I wouldn't buy it again, but I do think it's above average overall in spite of its shallowness.
C+ (3.14) / ABOVE AVERAGE
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