Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6

Il gusto al naso è indirizzato verso il frumento. L'olfatto viene stimolato in maniera elevata e l'esistenza olfattiva è sufficiente Il cappello di schiuma ha una scarsa tenuta. La grandezza delle bollicine è a grana media. Il liquido è di aspetto velato. Il colore è giallo dorato carico. Il corpo è pieno. L'amaro è pronunciato. La forza gustativa è elevata e la permanenza è sufficiente. Le sensazioni boccali finali risultano di birra beverina. Il retrogusto è di decente intensità. Al gusto vengono donati toni di miele, frumento, frutta secca, agrumi, spezie, arancia amara e banana.

Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 6.5 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 6.5

Bottle shared. Hazy straw. Wheat, yeasty, light citrus zest, mineral, flowery. Light sweet, even lighter sour and bitter. Inoffensive but also bland and not great.

LCI from Bière a Lille past weekend.

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 5.5

Keg at 57 Thomas Street, Manchester, 03/10/19. Almost clear golden blonde with an off white head. Nose is grass, grains, lemon rind, clove, light white peppery spice. Taste comprises grains, lemon zest, straw, grass, light breads, clove. Medium bodied, fine carbonation, semi drying close. Passable Hefe.

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6

Tap at the Thomas Street place. A mostly clear golden yellow coloured pour with a lasting white head. Aroma is meaty wheat grains, clove, bruised banana. Veg. Flavour is composed of semi sweet, salt, wheat, clove, stodgy banana loaf, light tang. Palate is highish carbonation. Fine. .

Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7

Hazy straw colour, good frothy white head, mostly diminishing, light lacing. Aroma wheat, banana, hint apricot, cloves, yeast. Taste medium sweet, light bitter and slightly sourish, wheat, yeast, banana, apricot, cloves. Lingering mild sweet-bitter-sourish aftertaste, more sourish than in taste, spicy on the tongue. Light body, watery texture, average carbonation, very nice non-German hefe weizen.

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6

Bottle 33 cl. Pours a hazy golden with a small, white head. Nose is sweet banana and clove. Medium body, again sweet banana notes and a dry finish without any real bitterness. Decent if not exactly a world class Hefe. 110819

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5

French Hefeweizen (never thought I’d use those words combined in a single phrase), big cheers to Marie for the bottle! Thick, foamy, moussy, snow white head leaving a membrane of lacing and crowning a hazy straw blonde beer with somewhat ochre-ish hue, the haze being perturbed by fierce sparkling. Aroma carries a truckload of banana ester, from banana mush to banana-flavoured bubblegum, overseeing more subtle impressions of ripe pear, cloves, soapy wheat, white bread dough, canned pineapple slices, apricot, straw, field flowers. Sweet banana onset with faintly sourish peach and plum hints, bready maltiness with classic ’wheaty soapiness’, medium carbo, soft and fluffy mouthfeel, bit doughy; breadiness increases a bit in the finish thanks to the yeast suspension, yielding some clove-like phenols but more subtly so than in a typical Bavarian Hefeweizen; deeper sourish graininess and rounded banana sweet flavours linger, under a floral hoppy touch which does not execute any ’expressive’ bitterness but does bring things to balance. Technically very well done, classic in its conception, but perhaps a bit too much banana-laden, almost reminding me of the Dutch interpretations of the style, but less simple and more, well, why not, ’artisanal’.