Faust Hefeweizen Dunkel
Brauhaus Faust-Miltenberger

 

De Labirratorium. En copa hefe de Faust
Jugando a Bloxburg con Asun (Rodrigo viendo Heidi en carne y hueso) Muy rica, con un dulzor marcado y muy agradable y cuerpo sedoso, en el que quizás haya espacio para algo mas de volumen pero tampoco es algo que le afecte mucho

 

Poured into a Celebrator pokal. Pours a medium to dark orange brown with a two finger off-white head with great retention and thick lacing. Aroma of dry biscuit malt, caramel, dark fruit and a hint of molasses. Flavor is dark biscuit malt, brown bread, light banana and clove, dark dried fruit. Medium bodied with light creaminess. A nicely brewed dunkel that hits all the flavors I hope for in a dunkel. Malt is classically German and there are light, but complex fruit and bready notes. I drink far to few German beer now that I've been seeking out new breweries and this reminds me I sometimes need to get back to basics.

Dunkelweizen is hard to find out here in southern CA but fortunately I came across a local store which stocks this fine example in a swing top bottle. Roasted malt with caramel, banana and clove notes in perfect balance with the generous yeast in the bottle.

Alas, was told is has been discontinued by importer.

 

 

Taste is crispy bready with roasted malt. Amber brown and unfiltered, Nose is nutty with yeast. Medium body, some lace to head. Would pair well with many meals

Poured from swing-top pint bottle into a weizen glass. It pours a cloudy, nearly opaque brown with a one-finger, ecru-colored head and lacing that did not dissipate during the pour. It smells of roasted malt, molasses, banana, cloves, and pumpernickel bread. The tastes are rather subdued and earthy with lots of wheat, pumpernickel bread, nuts, and spice accompanying the malt and yeast. There are faint hints of banana and caramel. It finishes fairly dry and with a slight bitterness. As the glass warmed, the flavors became increasingly evident. This beer is light in body, well-carbonated, and its 5.2% ABV makes for easy drinking. Overall, it is a good example of Dunkelweizen. It's flavorful, crisp, and very easy to drink. I could envision a nice session with several weizen glasses and good conversation.

A: The beer is hazy brownish amber in color. It poured with a quarter finger high beige colored head that died down, leaving a collar around the edge of the glass and some streaks of bubbles on the surface.
S: Moderate aromas of banana and other fruity esters such as apples are present in the nose; these become stronger as the beer warms up.
T: The taste follows the smell, having flavors of bananas and apples, and also has additional notes of malty sweetness. There are also some bits of nutty flavors.
M: It feels light- to medium-bodied on the palate and has a moderate amount of carbonation.
O: This beer goes down easily and is very drinkable. It seems like it could use some more in the way of carbonation both in the appearance and mouthfeel.

Serving type: bottle

L: Pours a dark murky brown with a large head.

S: Unripened plantains, sweet doughy bread, a bit yeasty with lots of clove and similar spices. This beer actually has a sort of cidery quality found in some homebrews made with extract.

T: Bready and bisquity, Christmas spices, banana nut muffin and banana cream pie. This is a beer that definitely takes awhile to open up.

F: Medium body, on the lighter side, with crisp fizzy carbonation and slightly slick mouthfeel.

Overall: While I don't find this to be the most remarkable representation of the style, and I don’t think I love it quite as much as some of the other reviewers, it is very drinkable and clean with some nice spice flavors and I’d probably buy it again.

Edit: Bumping this up a few points. I've been drinking more of this and it now strikes me as a more complex and impressive beer than I initially gave it credit for.

 

Nothing special this Faust... Looks better than taste.

I picked up a bottle of Brauhaus Faust-Miltenberger's Faust Hefeweizen Dunkel last week for $3.99 at The Lager Mill. I had their Doppelbock recently, I thought it was solid and I'm interested to see how this one turns out, so lets see how it goes. No visible bottling date. Poured from a brown pop top 500ml bottle into a Weizen glass.

A- The label looks ok, it's got a clean classic look to it, but I don't think it's too eye catching. It poured a murky brown color that took on a caramel like hue when held to the light with almost three fingers worth of very creamy very light tan head that died down to a thick ring that stayed till the end and it left some patchy lacing behind. This was a pretty nice looking beer, but I wish the color wasn't so murky.

S- The aroma starts off with a higher amount of medium sweetness with the yeast being the first to show up and it imparts a banana and light clove like aroma. Up next comes the wheat which impart a dark wheat, wheat, light caramel, light toffee, slightly grainy and very bready like aroma with just a little bit of sweet malts showing up in the background. This beer had a very nice aroma that was very true to style.

T- The taste seems to be very similar to the aroma and it starts off with a slightly higher amount of medium sweetness that leads right into the yeast which imparts some banana and light clove like flavors. Up next comes the wheat which imparts the exact same aspects that it did int he aroma with no single aspect seeming to stick out the most. On the finish there's very light amount of bitterness with just a little sweetness and it had banana, very light clove and dark wheat like aftertaste. This was a very nice tasting beer, it was just what I expect from the style.

M- Smooth, a little crisp, fairly creamy, a little velvety, on the thicker side of being medium bodied with a slightly lower amount of medium carbonation. This beer had a very nice mouthfeel that worked very nicely with it.

Overall I thought this was a good beer and a good example of the style, it had all the nice aspects that I look for in a Dunkel Hefeweizen without having anything that was uncharacteristic for the style and I thought it was an easy drinking and nice tasting beer. This beer had good drinkability, it was smooth, a little crisp, fairly creamy, a little velvety, a little filling and the taste did a good job at holding my attention, I think one is the perfect amount for me, but I wouldn't rule out drinking two pints of it if I was really in the mood for the style, but I think that would be my limit. What I like the most about this beer was the mouthfeel and how true to style it is, to me those were the highlights of this beer. What I like the least about this beer aws the color, it was just a little too murky looking. I would buy this beer again when in the mood for the style and I would recommend it to anyone who enjoys the style. All in all I was happy and a little impressed with this beer, it just what I look for in a good Dunkel Hefeweizen and I'm glad I took a chance on this beer. So far this is my favorite beer from this brewery, I enjoy this one a little more than their Doppelbock. This is now my favorite Dunkel Hefeweizen. Good job guys, this was one good tasting beer, keep up the hard work.

500 ml bottle into weizen glass, no bottle dating. Pours hazy/cloudy reddish brown color with a 1 finger dense off white head with good retention, that reduces to a small cap that lingers. Spotty foamy lacing clings down the glass, with a moderate amount of streaming carbonation retaining the head. Aromas of big banana, plum, pear, apple, clove, caramel, toast, brown bread, light nuttiness, herbal, and yeast earthiness. Fantastic aromas with great complexity and balance of fruity/earthy yeast and dark/bready malt notes; with great strength. Taste of big banana, plum, pear, apple, clove, caramel, toast, brown bread, light nuttiness, herbal, and yeast earthiness. Light bready tartness and yeast spice on the finish; with lingering notes of raisin, plum, pear, apple, banana, clove, caramel, toast, brown bread, light nuttiness, and yeast earthiness on the finish for a while. Fantastic robustness and complexity of fruity/earthy yeast and dark/bready malt sweetness; with zero cloying flavors after the finish. Medium carbonation and body; with a very smooth and moderately creamy/bready mouthfeel that is great. Alcohol is very well hidden with minimal warming present after the finish. Overall this is a fantastic dunkelweizen! All around awesome complexity and balance of fruity/earthy yeast and dark/bready malt sweetness; and extremely smooth to drink. A highly enjoyable offering.

 

 

I found this new at my local beer store and tried the dunkel before trying the hefe and dopplebock which were in the same case. Swing top bottle and poured nicely with a dark creamy head. Slight notes of banana and creamy mouthfeel with mild carbonation. Would rate Miltenberger dunkel as one of my favorites.