Imperial Hefeweizen
Tyranena Brewing Company

I had this on tap at Stub & Herb's in Minneapolis. The beer was hazy translucent light orange color, about 1 finger of white foam. The smell was classic hefeweizen, bananas & clove and actually some weizenbock aromas as well, strong and delicious. The taste was absolutely delicious, very good and competitive with anything I've tried from Germany. Thick creamy mouthfeel, this is overall a damn good hefeweizen. Grab it if you find it, exceptional.

Florescent crayon orange-yellow, totally opaque, with a thick, seemingly endless, whipping cream head.
Wet and doughy aroma of wheat bread, bringing all the typical Hefe hallmarks in tow, but substantially louder than most. Pureed bananas, vanilla cream, lemon muffins, cloves, peppers, and a balancing lemongrass, reedy hoppiness.
It follows this model, tastewise. It's an absolutely traditional hefeweizen jacked up a few notches. Wheaty up front. Doughy and wet. Then the bananas rain down, followed closely by softball-sized pellets of vanilla nougat, and cloves, and lemon-poppyseed muffins. A small prickliness of pepper precedes the herbal hop closure, but this tilts sweet regardless, though not overly so.
This is no Weizenbock, just a muscular, taut hefeweizen. The feel is fleecy and completely full, but the light-moderate CO2 stays perky and gives it the levity needed not to cloy. There is no noticeable alcohol.
This is exactly what it is named, an Imperial Hefeweizen, as it takes all the stereotypical flavors and slams them in your nose and down your throat.

Wow is this a hell of a beer. I love Dancing Man from New Glarus (which I consider an imperial hefe)...I think I gave that a 5.0 and this is close.

Great aroma of banana, bubble gum, vanilla, and cloves.

Taste follows suit...big banana and bubble gum with just enough clover impression to keep it slightly spicy..

Thirst quenching..the more I drink this the more the clove notes emerge....abv is not noticable although this does feel a little sturdier than your basic hefe...

A fantastic beer. Nothing better than a fresh growler of this...the cloves really start to dominate as you drink it...

Hats, shirt, & watch off to milwaukeeclassic for dragging a growler of this to the pre-Darkness Day gathering & allowing me to make off with it.

This...is...the...best...hefeweizen...I've...ever...had. Hands down. No comparison. I find most hefes to be a bit weak, a bit watery, & just not terribly satisfying.

This brutish yellow brew had panache coming out its mouthfeel. Intense on the nose, banana & orange all over the place, with a palate to match. Full, angry, bitter, sweet, fantastic. We shared the growler with the neighbors & even the beer-averse had a glass after a sip. It was appreciated by the snobs & non-beer-lovers alike.

If more hefes were like this, I'd drink a lot more of them. Top notch. And I'd expect nothing less from this amazing brewery. Kudos, again!

This is one hell of a hefeweizen.

Appearance - deep, hazy yellow with a good amount of head and good lacing

Smell - Bananas and cloves and some other spiciness that I can't point out exactly

Taste - Bananas and some bubblegum and a very pleasant wheaty sweetness. The tastes definitely follows the aroma. No detectable alcohol taste.

Mouthfeel - carbonation was dialed in well for the style and very smooth

Drinkability - I could drink a whole growler of this because of the lack alcohol burn.

I think this one (at 7.5 ABV) has the perfect balance between the lightness of a good hefeweizen and the bolder flavors that accompany a higher ABV.

Looks perfect. Pours luxuriously into my oversized weizen glass. The body of the beer is a beautiful muddled and murky looking mess. A bigass crop of white froth is erected on top. The staying power and lacing abilities are top notch. As I slowly drink, the head becomes rocky and cavernous. This beer smells incredible. Very defined and bold notes of banana and bubblegum. Also a little vanilla. A little pepper. And a little wheat spice. The taste follows through with spades. This is kickass. I can't believe nobody has rated this yet. The mouthfeel is so smooth and creamy, yet carbonated just enough to provide some palate cleansing ability. The flavor is all bubblegum, banana, vanilla, peppercorn, doughy yeastiness, lemondrop and spice. Surprisingly, what IS absent is alcohol. This is an imperial, though I don't know the A/V. I only detect trace amounts of EtOH. What a composite beer this is. No surprise since the Fargo Brothers is such a damn good hefe. This just takes it up a notch. A return of this in the summer would be outstanding.

This is my 2nd 5.0 beer from Wisconsin in the past month. Am I getting a little loose with my 5s?? In all honesty, I don't think so. Everything about this beer is top of the line. Gotta thank the big ol ZAP for grabbing this for me.