Just had my first one. It tasted like a normal hefeweizen to me except it was hazy looking and orange colored. So why does this need to exist again ?
I thought almost all Hefeweizens were hazy? I guess they might occasionally drop bright, but that's a hallmark of the style.
They can run the gambit from eggshell all the way up to milk chocolate. Here's a super traditional one that kinda looks orange depending on the light:
Was the beer you had being advertised as something new? I would think "hazy Hefeweizen" is a somewhat redundant phrase. Mit Hefe means with yeast, so you would expect to see yeast in a hazy suspension. The filtered version of the style is Kristallweizen. Kristal meaning clear. As to color, what Domingo said. Try a Schneider Original sometime -- very different in color to Paulaner or H-P Weizens.
You beat me to the punch on this. I had the exact same question(s). Unless this was actually labeled as a hazy hefeweizen, the experience the OP described sounds fairly typical.
Yeah I'll spill the beans on what it is. Its Jack's Abby "Modern Hefe." Not sure why they even have a hefewizen when it a company that makes lagers and a hefeweizen isnt a lager.I drank it and its definitely hazy and not the traditional looking hefeweizen Im used to.
Hmm. "Modern." https://jacksabby.com/beers/modern-hefe/ (Can't help but point out that they've misspelled Wiesn (not Weizen) throughout their website. A place that's supposed to be big on German styles. )
Weizen means wheat, weissbier means "white beer" - the latter is reffering to the specific regional style within the larger catagory. Why did you expect something with "modern" in the name to be "traditional"?
Nah. We only get (old) 12oz. bottles of Edelstoff, Hell, and Maximator. I've had their weissbier several times in Munich, though. For what it's worth, it might actually be my least favorite hefeweizen in the entire area. I mainly just remember the color of being particularly dark.
It's not unusual for a brewing company that specializes in German/Bavarian lager styles to produce a Hefeweizen. I didn't see a case of this brewing company calling this beer a "hazy Hefeweizen." This one uses lager yeast, pils malt, malted wheat... and it's made with open fermentation, krausening, and can conditioning. They claim it's a "reimagined" Hefe but don't get into more specifics, and they also call it a "Bavarian Wheat" beer. Regarding the level of haze to it, the pics on Untappd are unsurprisingly all over the place - with it looking like an opaque IPA in some shots and only a little hazy in others. When you personally pour an imported Hefe, you might get different degrees of haze depending on how you pour it.
Thanks, but not what I was referring to. JA has a Festbier, or Wiesn Beer (named for the Wiesn, or Meadow, in Munich where the Oktoberfest is held) that they've misspelled as Weisn -- not to be confused with Weizen or Weiß. Sorry, my fault for taking a detour.
Side note(s): I appreciate and respect a well made hefe but along with Belgian Tripel, it’s probably my least favorite style due to the banana esters and bubblegum/clove phenols. However, like Live Oak’s, this new version by Jack’s Abby is pretty good. I’m guessing that’s probably due to the fact that they drink more like American Wheat beers imo. Also, more kristalweizens would be great.
One more JA beer for me to try. I'm fortunate to live in driving distance of the brewery so I can get whatever beer from them I want either by local purchase or a 50 minute car ride. Let me see for myself how hazy and "Modern" it is. Prost.
back in September I ordered a Hefeweizen from triple crossing in Richmond Va called Dagwood. When I was served it I was convinced they gave me a hazy ipa. Once I tasted it I knew it was definitely a Hefeweizen but it was definitely the oddest Hefeweizen I ever seen. It was not labeled as a hazy Hefeweizen but majority of Hefeweizen I had before were in cans or bottles looked nothing like this.
