Preussen Weisse
The Monarchy in Stolberg, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany 🇩🇪
Brewed at/by: Vormann BrauereiWeizen - Hefeweizen Regular
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6.06
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Martin Lindström (24441) ticked Preussen Weisse from The Monarchy 9 years ago
Alengrin (11561) reviewed Preussen Weisse from The Monarchy 10 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 5.5
Alleged historical recreation by one of the (still very few) progressive German brewers. Said to be made after a recipe dating back to 1831 and containing beet sugar, juniper berries and ginger - completely defying the Reinheitsgebot in more than one way, which surprises me: if this is truly authentic, it would mean that it was made by one of only a couple of Bavarian breweries still making Weissbier at that particular time, and I find it a bit hard to believe they still used spices in Reinheitsgebot-governed Germany by 1831... This beer, whatever the case, has a very dense and very moussy, frothy, egg-white, lacing, thick head creeping slowly out of the bottle out of the opening without ’real’ gushing; colour is a hazy, lightly orangey peach blonde with lively sparkling, turning deeper orange and fully clouded with deposit. Aroma of old cloth and wet cardboard, sourish and soapy wheat, hints of dried juniper berries more obvious than dried ginger, banana, cloves, unmistakable stale urine (even slightly disturbing), soaked bread, rotten lemon, wet hay, parsnip, apple peel, egg yolk, lavender leaves (but that’s probably just the juniper again). Soft sourish onset with sweetish dried banana and apricot hints, some red apple too, light metallic ’zing’ but in a natural kind of way, soft but effective carbo, deep earthy yeastiness on top of a supple bready malt body with unmistakable wheat soapiness and ’dull’ sourishness, retronasal ethereal, even somewhat ’perfumey’ spiciness vaguely recognizable as juniper berries but again much less so as ginger (though the latter, in a dried, musty form, becomes clearer all the way at the back), reinforced with fairy strong spicy phenols; apart from this aromatic sweetish spiciness, the finish is earthy, rooty, sourish and grainy, a bit thin perhaps but still with a late, very faint echo of floral hops, and expectedly very yeasty, to the point of feeling a bit starch-like and ’dirty’. A bready juiciness along with sweet banana ’esteriness’ and traces of the soft spiciness remain after swallowing. The urine effect in the aroma seriously bothers me and the seasoning, though not consisting of coriander and dried citrus peel as in a witbier, feels very Belgian to me (but then, I am a Belgian consumer, of course). Quenching and conceptually interesting for sure, but I still prefer a classic, unspiced Bavarian Weissbier. I do like the 19th-century style label, but then there is the fact that beer bottles were almost certainly unlabeled before 1840 or so; the Pickelhaube depicted on the label may be as Prussian as the name of the beer, but it too was only conceived in 1842 - so this label is obviously make-belief coming from The Monarchy itself. And frankly, I would not be surprised if that were the case for the whole concept and recipe of this beer as well...
GRM (7521) reviewed Preussen Weisse from The Monarchy 10 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 4.5
Glass, 2-ounce, bottle, during the Mondial de la bière, savoured on June 12 2015; eye: yellowish with a caramel hue, hazy, no effervescence, tiny ring of mocha head, slight lacing; nose: wheat, acidity, cow, light wheat; mouth: wheat, acidity, cow, light wheat, slightly salty, watery finale with light presence of caramel, light body, below-average carbonation, thin; overall: quite ordinary FRANÇAIS Verre, 2 onces, bouteille, lors du Mondial de la bière, savourée le 12 juin 2015; œil : jaunâtre avec une teinte caramel, voilée, pas d’effervescence, minuscule anneau de mousse moka, très légère dentelle; nez : blé, acidité, vache, léger blé; bouche : blé, acidité, vache, léger blé, très légèrement salée, finale aqueuse avec très légère présence de caramel, corps léger, carbonatation sous la moyenne, mince; en résumé : b’en ordinaire
Fisler (3086) reviewed Preussen Weisse from The Monarchy 10 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 3 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 2.5
Die fette Kuh mit eigenem Bier, das lass ich mir nicht entgehen! Mir leider eine Spur zu sauer.
WillemsUrenkel (5540) reviewed Preussen Weisse from The Monarchy 10 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6.5
0,5 l bottle from Kristall-König. Thanks a lot! Murky orange in the glass, one finger foamy short living white head. Yeast, hop and ginger on the nose. Tastes the same, juniper, some fresh fruity sourness. A lot of visible sediments. Summer beer.
Stuu (34926) reviewed Preussen Weisse from The Monarchy 10 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Bottle at home. Pours hazy orange, nose is toffee and ginger, floral, taste is sweet, light fruit, spices, quite thin.
allmyvinyl (20966) reviewed Preussen Weisse from The Monarchy 10 years ago
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5
500ml bottle from Cornelius. Pours murky brown with a short-lived white head. Aromas of coffee, banana, phenols, almost peaty. Candi sugar and spice behind it all. Taste is fennel, spice, sweet banana. Medicinal, Swarfega in fact. Weird. Light sweet finish.
jamestulloch (9548) reviewed Preussen Weisse from The Monarchy 10 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Bottle from Cornelius. Hazy orange body with a thin off-white head. Low carbonation. Aroma of orange pith, sugar, apricot and spice. Flavour of blueberries, nettles, mashed strawberries and a hint of ginger. Thin body with a smooth texture. Soft fizz. Unusual and tasty.
MoritzF (10568) reviewed Preussen Weisse from The Monarchy 10 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 5
(bottle) Hazy, pale golden coloured hue with particles floating around and a medium-sized and minimally off-white foamy head. Yeasty, barnyardy and delicately wheaty aroma with slightly fruity notes, ginger and herbal spice, as well as traces of urine. Mildly bitter and delicately sour flavour, rather slim bodied with a surprisingly tame carbonation. Slim and delicately bready malty and slightly wheaty base with present spicy notes of ginger and garden herbs, also a subtle fruity touch; almost dry, spicy and delicately fruity and sour finish. Lacks acidity and is way too spicy for my taste, wouldn´t have liked it even if the recipe was from 1000 BC. 06.V.15
Saeglopur (4005) reviewed Preussen Weisse from The Monarchy 10 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5
500 ml bottle shared by Werckmeister, thanks!
Amber, hazy body, with a medium, frothy, off-white head.
Aroma of spices, soap, *kanal*, banana, wheat.
Taste is quite light, with spices, bread, banana, some sweet malts.
Medium mouthfeel, with an average carbonation.
Finishes soft, sweet, spicy, a bit fruity.
Boring. Nose is pretty strange, taste is better, but quite flat. Not my cup of tea.