Παρασκευή 27 Ιουλίου 2012

Weihenstephaner Hefe-Weissbier


 ABV 5,4%
A bottle of 330 ml. Poured into a weizen glass with a capacity of 300 ml. This one pours great, gave me a huge white head, 4 fingers in height with great retention. When it finally came down, a thin strip of foam remained on the beer's surface. Pale golden colour, slighty hazy.
Sweet aroma of bananas and clove, less strong once the foam goes down of course, but still there during the whole drinking time, and quite pleasant.
Taste is also just a bit sweet and fruity. Banana flavour is the most easily recognizable. Other than that, some spices and yeast traces.
Rich body and as mach carbonation as needed. Leaves your palate dry.
A great beer, maybe I will seek it again after I finish my three other bottles.

4.33/5 
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.5

This beer comes from the oldest brewery in the world as they claim to be, with a history that begins in 1040. I am sure it's pretty interesting to read, so go and look up their website. Or just click here . Or since I have already read it, I'll just tell you that a monk saint founded a monastery with some of his companions in 725, and they were granted the permission to make and sell beer, in 1040, although there are writings that kind of prove the mponastery was already brewing beer for a couple of centuries before that. After that, it's mainly invaders plundering the monastery, the monks deserting it because of earthquakes, plagues, invasions etc, then going back to rebuilt it and finally the German Purity Law was signed on the doorstep of the monastery in 1516. Then in 1803 all the possesions of the monastery were transfered into the hands of the Bavaria State. The End.
The brewery's beers have won lots of prizes, with the last of them being in 2011. For more details, again, visit their website. Cheers!

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