Your Hefeweizen

Discussion in 'Beer Talk' started by bierman2000, May 4, 2012.

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  1. bierman2000

    bierman2000 Initiate (0) Jan 8, 2003 Pennsylvania

    OK a general question do you like your German or German Style Hefe:

    1. with an Orange
    2. with a Lemon
    3. with Nothing added

    I prefer Nothing added. It seems many micro-pubs and beer bars want to push the fruit.
     
  2. LambicKing

    LambicKing Initiate (0) Apr 13, 2011 Germany

    Gimme nada...fruit is not authentic to the style.
     
  3. yemenmocha

    yemenmocha Grand Pooh-Bah (4,116) Jun 18, 2002 Arizona
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    Unadulterated
     
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  4. JrGtr

    JrGtr Pooh-Bah (1,775) Apr 13, 2006 Massachusetts
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    Nothing. The better sort of beer bars will ask if you want an orange or whatever with it. Of course I say no.
    However, if they don't, and it shows up with that citrus hanging on the rim, I don't make a big deal of it, I just take it off and leave it on the counter.
     
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  5. InVinoVeritas

    InVinoVeritas Initiate (0) Apr 16, 2012 Wisconsin

    I'll give the copout contingency answer, it depends on the beer. Some are worth adding, some are as yemenmocha noted better unadulterated.
     
  6. hackedfly

    hackedfly Initiate (0) Feb 14, 2012 California

    nothing on mine...I see it as an insult to the brewer since they worked hard to make it no matter how bad it might be, ill just drink it ol' fashioned
     
  7. stxSS07

    stxSS07 Initiate (0) Nov 23, 2010 Illinois

    Woe do the d00d who tries to fruit my Dancin' Man.
     
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  8. mjtiernan

    mjtiernan Initiate (0) Feb 15, 2008 New York

  9. tacosandbeer

    tacosandbeer Pooh-Bah (1,760) Sep 24, 2010 British Indian Ocean Territory
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    Thank you.
     
  10. ThisWangsChung

    ThisWangsChung Pooh-Bah (2,988) Oct 15, 2011 Maryland
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    If I find anyone putting fruit in my weizen, heads will start rolling. If there's an 'anti fruit in beer club' out there, I'd like to join it right now.
     
  11. abraxel

    abraxel Initiate (0) Aug 28, 2009 Michigan

    Fruit just distracts from the awesomeness. If the beer is good, it doesn't need fruit on the rim (but if that's what you're into, go for it) :slight_smile:
     
  12. mjtiernan

    mjtiernan Initiate (0) Feb 15, 2008 New York

    I'm drinking a Vitus as I type this and I WILL KILL any man or woman who approaches me with a wedge of anything.
     
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  13. ThisWangsChung

    ThisWangsChung Pooh-Bah (2,988) Oct 15, 2011 Maryland
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    This is the only exception I tolerate to my 'no fruit' rule, 'cause something like, say, Corona is so damn shitty it needs something, anything to mask the taste of its failure.

    If I ever see a slice of lemon in my Weihenstephaner, though, then I enter rampage mode. That, or I just mildly complain about it on here.
     
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  14. UCLABrewN84

    UCLABrewN84 Initiate (0) Mar 18, 2010 California

    Nothing. Ever.
     
  15. ThirstyBird

    ThirstyBird Savant (1,128) Jan 17, 2007 California
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    I try to drink the best weizens available and those are certainly do not need any fruit.
     
  16. movingglass

    movingglass Initiate (0) Jan 15, 2012 Illinois

    Adding a lemon slice to Hefeweizen is not tradition in Germany, though a certain style of Weizenbier (Berliner Weisse) is mixed with a variety of sweet syrups, so it’s not like German beer drinkers are too precious about adding fruity flavors to their beer. “In north [Germany] I have seen it, but very rarely,” says European beer expert Ron Pattinson of the lemon garnish. “In the south, it would be seen as sacrilege to put anything in beer. [However], Germans do make a Radler [the beer equivalent of an Arnold Palmer] with Hefeweizen, mixing it 50-50 with lemonade.

    Read this in Imbibe Magazine.
     
  17. dennis3951

    dennis3951 Initiate (0) Mar 6, 2008 New Jersey

    no furit in beer
     
  18. Eriktheipaman

    Eriktheipaman Pooh-Bah (2,303) Sep 4, 2010 California
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    Nothing. I'd be bummed if I ordered any beer and fruit came in it without me asking.
     
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  19. TheShogun

    TheShogun Savant (1,063) Aug 18, 2011 New York
    BA4LYFE Society

    If I want fruit, I order a lambic or a SA Cherry Wheat !
     
  20. TheShogun

    TheShogun Savant (1,063) Aug 18, 2011 New York
    BA4LYFE Society

    Just send it back and tell them you want it "neat"!
     
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