Tonight's beer: DC Brau El Hefe Speaks
Lots of bananas to open, with a sprinkling of cloves (and maybe allspice) on top. Pale-bready sweetness back in the structure, with hints of caramel. Pepper in the distance, and grace notes of grass and flowers and maybe bubblegum. Never particularly sweet, starts tart and transitions swiftly and smoothly to nicely dry.
A bit on the light side of medium-bodied, less-explosively carbonated than I was expecting but still completely adequate. Drying, scrubbing, cleansing. Distinctly smooth, a little sticky at the very last.
Quite a tasty hefeweizen, pretty convincingly to-style (to my palate, anyway). It's not Weihenstephaner, but it's about as good as I'd expect a beer in this style to be, from an American brewery (Sierra Nevada's Kellerweis is an exception, here). Intense and complex, given the relatively low alcohol content, balanced and unified and massively drinkable.
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| DC Brau El Hefe Speaks |
Lots of bananas to open, with a sprinkling of cloves (and maybe allspice) on top. Pale-bready sweetness back in the structure, with hints of caramel. Pepper in the distance, and grace notes of grass and flowers and maybe bubblegum. Never particularly sweet, starts tart and transitions swiftly and smoothly to nicely dry.
A bit on the light side of medium-bodied, less-explosively carbonated than I was expecting but still completely adequate. Drying, scrubbing, cleansing. Distinctly smooth, a little sticky at the very last.
Quite a tasty hefeweizen, pretty convincingly to-style (to my palate, anyway). It's not Weihenstephaner, but it's about as good as I'd expect a beer in this style to be, from an American brewery (Sierra Nevada's Kellerweis is an exception, here). Intense and complex, given the relatively low alcohol content, balanced and unified and massively drinkable.
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