Ur-Weizen
Bolten Brauerei
- From:
- Bolten Brauerei
- Germany
- Style:
- Hefeweizen
Ranked #757 - ABV:
- 5.4%
- Score:
- 81
Ranked #93,248 - Avg:
- 3.47 | pDev: 17.29%
- Reviews:
- 5
- Ratings:
- Status:
- Active
- Rated:
- Jul 18, 2021
- Added:
- Jun 14, 2007
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
SCORE
81
Good
81
Good
A tangy, fresh, top-fermented hefeweißbier that matures through our artisanal brewing process and traditional fermentation. Brewed according to the German purity law.
Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by Spike from England
3/5 rDev -13.5%
look: 4.25 | smell: 3 | taste: 3 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 2.5
3/5 rDev -13.5%
look: 4.25 | smell: 3 | taste: 3 | feel: 3.25 | overall: 2.5
500ml bottle at the end if its BBD. Looks the business but tastes like a vaguely witbier/lager cross. Refreshing and enjoyable on a blistering hot summer afternoon but disappointing for the style.
Jul 18, 2021
Reviewed by JonnoWillsteed from England
3.62/5 rDev +4.3%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
3.62/5 rDev +4.3%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
L- It has a simple understated lable. Pours mid-gold and quite cloudy - note: bottle had been rested/chilled+poured carefully so anyone trying to avoid haze; good luck! Pours with good looking 2Cm pillowy head.
S- A bright note, a Weizen scent which in this one comes over as hints of aromatic timber.
T- It's bright on the taste too, some moderately dry hops and into a wheaty middle and dry hoppy lick across the palate into the finish.
F- CO2 in the mouth is very good (and holding very well in the glass). Together with the hop level noted above this is a very refreshing beer. The flip-side is that these two elements conspire to rather mask any sense of ABV%. At 5.4% I wouldn't object to sensing it's presence.
O- It's very nice and I find nothing present to object to. It's very refreshing and on the brighter/hoppier end of the spectrum of Weizens I have to got to sample to date. (I lived in Berlin for 3 years, 'and got through 1 or 2'... hundred perhaps). In a way maybe this historic recipe inadvertently has ended up suiting contemporary higher-hopping tastes.
My first beer from this brewery, I see it's located in north-west Germany over near the Dutch border.
500ml bottle BB: 02/2021. Bought from BeersOfEurope/UK for home delivery.
Oct 17, 2020S- A bright note, a Weizen scent which in this one comes over as hints of aromatic timber.
T- It's bright on the taste too, some moderately dry hops and into a wheaty middle and dry hoppy lick across the palate into the finish.
F- CO2 in the mouth is very good (and holding very well in the glass). Together with the hop level noted above this is a very refreshing beer. The flip-side is that these two elements conspire to rather mask any sense of ABV%. At 5.4% I wouldn't object to sensing it's presence.
O- It's very nice and I find nothing present to object to. It's very refreshing and on the brighter/hoppier end of the spectrum of Weizens I have to got to sample to date. (I lived in Berlin for 3 years, 'and got through 1 or 2'... hundred perhaps). In a way maybe this historic recipe inadvertently has ended up suiting contemporary higher-hopping tastes.
My first beer from this brewery, I see it's located in north-west Germany over near the Dutch border.
500ml bottle BB: 02/2021. Bought from BeersOfEurope/UK for home delivery.
Reviewed by JeffreyJDavis from North Carolina
4.36/5 rDev +25.6%
look: 4 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.5
4.36/5 rDev +25.6%
look: 4 | smell: 4.25 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.5
A nice and innovative beer from Germany's oldest Alt brauerei, Bolten, which traces its origins back to 1266. This is a bottle conditioned, unfiltered weizen, made using Bolten's Alt yeasts. Reinheitsgebot be damned, this beer is different from 95% of the Bavarian style weizens you will try.
A: Pours a cloudy, turbid , almost lemon yellow, with a very expressive 3 to 4 finger head which retains and laces well, clinging to the sides as it consolidates.
N: Don't expect the typical banana and clove Hefeweizen nose, the nose is pretty subtle, you get some yeasty bready notes with a pretty alluring hop overcoat.
T: I love this style. Plenty of Bolten-hefe yeast and wheat, but it is the hops just really set it off and differentiate it. This beer is very much in the style of Schneider Weisse TAP 5 Meine Hopefenweizen, in my book. I love that beer and I love this beer almost as much.
MF: This is a very refreshing and crisp beer, with a pleasingly astringent finish. I feel like mowing someone's lawn so I can have a few more of these, but it's February in Germany and the ground is snow covered.
This is the first time I've had this beer, though I've had Bolten Ur-Alt many times. This is the same level of quality and creativity in my book. A fine example and out of the ordinary. TIP!!
Feb 07, 2013A: Pours a cloudy, turbid , almost lemon yellow, with a very expressive 3 to 4 finger head which retains and laces well, clinging to the sides as it consolidates.
N: Don't expect the typical banana and clove Hefeweizen nose, the nose is pretty subtle, you get some yeasty bready notes with a pretty alluring hop overcoat.
T: I love this style. Plenty of Bolten-hefe yeast and wheat, but it is the hops just really set it off and differentiate it. This beer is very much in the style of Schneider Weisse TAP 5 Meine Hopefenweizen, in my book. I love that beer and I love this beer almost as much.
MF: This is a very refreshing and crisp beer, with a pleasingly astringent finish. I feel like mowing someone's lawn so I can have a few more of these, but it's February in Germany and the ground is snow covered.
This is the first time I've had this beer, though I've had Bolten Ur-Alt many times. This is the same level of quality and creativity in my book. A fine example and out of the ordinary. TIP!!
Reviewed by BlackHaddock from England
2.37/5 rDev -31.7%
look: 4 | smell: 2 | taste: 2.5 | feel: 2.5 | overall: 2
2.37/5 rDev -31.7%
look: 4 | smell: 2 | taste: 2.5 | feel: 2.5 | overall: 2
What a let down, I love this breweries Alt beers and assumed their other beers would be just as good, wrong!
This was the fourth beer of my German and lager based tasting evening last week.
The beer was poured into a Weizen glass and looked the business: murky, dull amber with the usual huge head sat on top, just like all the best Hefeweizen.
Where was the normal aromas of vanilla and banana, no cloves or anything else for that matter. The beer wasn't fresh, only having one week before it's best before date, but that shouldn't stop it from having a smell.
The taste was also a let down, wheaty yes, Hefeweizen flavours, no.
Really disappointed with this beer, maybe I and my friends missed something, but I don't think so.
Aug 08, 2011This was the fourth beer of my German and lager based tasting evening last week.
The beer was poured into a Weizen glass and looked the business: murky, dull amber with the usual huge head sat on top, just like all the best Hefeweizen.
Where was the normal aromas of vanilla and banana, no cloves or anything else for that matter. The beer wasn't fresh, only having one week before it's best before date, but that shouldn't stop it from having a smell.
The taste was also a let down, wheaty yes, Hefeweizen flavours, no.
Really disappointed with this beer, maybe I and my friends missed something, but I don't think so.
Reviewed by elmocoso from Nebraska
3.39/5 rDev -2.3%
look: 4.5 | smell: 3 | taste: 3 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
3.39/5 rDev -2.3%
look: 4.5 | smell: 3 | taste: 3 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
An unusual Weizen, this one is brewed with Boltens House alt yeast. Not too bad, but not for the weizen traditionalists. Looks and feels like weizen, but the taste and smell are not there.
Pours with a beautiful white head, and a gold and turbid beer. Very active carbonation.
Smell is a little sharp; No banana or clove esters present. malty and a bit of alcohol showing.
Flavor reflects the aroma. Again a bit sharp but malty, more like a zwickle.
Mouthfeel is very good, like velvet on the tongue.
Drinkability is good, once you get past the shock of a non weizen weizen. Give it a shot. It is worth it just to try.
Jun 14, 2007Pours with a beautiful white head, and a gold and turbid beer. Very active carbonation.
Smell is a little sharp; No banana or clove esters present. malty and a bit of alcohol showing.
Flavor reflects the aroma. Again a bit sharp but malty, more like a zwickle.
Mouthfeel is very good, like velvet on the tongue.
Drinkability is good, once you get past the shock of a non weizen weizen. Give it a shot. It is worth it just to try.
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