Sternweisse
Hacker-Pschorr Bräu GmbH

Hey! This Summer Limited Edition from H-P showed up... just in time for me to wonder if we'll see the Autumn Limited Edition offering.

Flip-top brown .5 liter bottle with ABV and dating very clear; 5.5 and best by 10/14.

A -- Hazy, deep amber with apricot tones and a tall, dense, billowy, light tan head.

S -- Sweet malt in first, fruity esters following up with some pepper and clove spiciness from proprietary yeasts.

T -- Rich, bready malts up front that blend into wheat malt then into the banana and clove character so identified with a good Bavarian Weizen. The finish is more bready malts -- sweet with melanoidin touches, and a lingering aftertaste of clove spiciness.

M -- Soft and smooth mouthfeel with a medium to almost heavy body.

O -- This is not H-P's usual Hefeweizen; it's more of a crosstown cousin to Schneider's Original Weizen (Tap 7) and a very good counterpart at that. I'm not sure this would be as refreshing as the lighter bodied Weizen beers in summer, but this is a great example of the range Weizens can be brewed.

 

Bottle 0.5 L.
Hazy, orange body, with a huge, creamy, off-white head, mostly lasting with a good lacing; high density of tiny bubbles.
Heavy malty aroma with intense banana character; hoppy notes (lemon, orange) are also detectable.
Intense sweet flavour with very light bitter notes; some acidic note is also present.
Medium body with an oily texture; soft carbonation; light astringency in the finish.
A bit too sweet, but satisfactory.

 

Look: this is a dunkel Weizen not a regular Weizen. Chocolate brown color with a cream head.

Smell: malt, wheat, not really any banana though sadly.

Taste: floral notes from the yeast, wheat, and malt.

Feel: super smooth, just the right amount of carbonation

Poured into a Cobra glass. Enormous cream coloured one and a half hand head that very slowly dissipates, eventually leading to a permanent cap of froth. In which time you can sip at the head with brown yeast sediment patches. Body is teak/mahogany, very dark for a hefe and I thought it was a dunkle weisse at first.

Aroma of faint clove but beside that it was nearly odourless. Taste is brown bread, toffee and peppercorns with a tiny spicy bitterness.
Mouthfeel is soft water and sweet bread.

A high quality and relatively decadent beer for the price and abv.

 

 

 

 

 

 

From Decervecitas. In Bavaria hefe glass. After dinner. Darker than usual, with a thick bready body that feels fairly pleasant. Banana flavors are there but a bit subdued. 1 month before bbf date. Very foamy.

Murky dark orange color with off-white head. Aroma has sweet, slightly caramelized malt and some banana. Taste is also on the sweet side with nice wheat notes and some yeast. Medium to full bodied with medium carbonation. Quite good weizen, leaning towards the dunkelweizen style with its slightly toasted notes.

 

 

 

 

This one is closer to a dunkelweizen in color and flavor. Flavor is slightly sour, more like a rye bread/pumpernickel. Oily mouthfeel. I could easily mistake this for a roggen weizen.