Trader Joe's JosephsBrau Dunkelweizen

JosephsBrau Dunkelweizen

 

Trader Joe's in Monrovia, California, United States 🇺🇸

Brewed at/by: Gordon Biersch Brewing Company
  Weizen - Dunkelweizen Regular
Score
6.52
ABV: 5.2% IBU: 18 Ticks: 33
JosephsBrau Dunkelweizen is an unfiltered wheat beer brewed with dark roasted malted wheat and caramelized malted wheat in addition to pale malted barley. The complex flavors produced by the Bavarian Hefeweizen yeast strain are enhanced by the roasted flavors from the dark malts. 5.2% alcohol by volume, 18 bitterness units.
 

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6.4
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

Bottle. Medium brown in color. With a medium off while head. Aroma was clove and banana bread. Taste was banana bread with hints of caramel and a slightly bitter finish.

Tried from Bottle on 21 Mar 2025 at 05:13


4.6
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 4.5

Pours a dark brown from a bottle, almost no head. Smells and tastes like a caramel malted milk shake, but thin and watery with no depth. Meh.

Tried from Bottle on 27 May 2016 at 18:18


5.2
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5

Nice darker hefe looking thing from a bottle. Mild sweet candy olfactory. At first a little difficult, again seems somewhat aged but date is 9/12/15. Perhaps more bitter and medicinal than was expected. Creamy hefe co2 is welcomed on gulps. Getting better as session continues. Banana is more apparent on the finish.

Tried from Bottle on 01 Oct 2015 at 14:31


7.2
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7

Refrigerated 12 oz. brown bottle poured into a weizen glass. Cloudy medium brown with small beige head. Nice banana aroma, medium/light body, medium soft carbonation, and good small-bubble lacing. Taste is dark malt, caramel, and banana.

Tried from Bottle on 27 Jun 2015 at 21:07


6.6
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5

12 ounce bottle. Pours a slightly murky dark bronze color with a small white head. A sweet spicy nose, banana and pepper. Light berries, toast, some caramel. Pretty smooth as all these TJs beers are. Dark toffee. Banana ester finish. Solid.

Tried from Bottle on 24 Mar 2015 at 03:16


6.2
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6

Ok showing for style but nothing amazing here. Pours cloudy brown with ok head and lacing. Light bread yeast. Some basement musk common for style. Bottle.

Tried from Bottle on 28 Jun 2014 at 10:30


6.8
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

12 oz. bottle from local Trader Joe’s with the Joseph’s Brau label. Yet another decent for a good price at $1.08 each. Cloudy amber in color with lasting thick head. Nose is authentic German yeast giving the nose of banana Esther’s, clove and hints of bubblegum. The flavor is mostly the same with the addition of caramel and brown sugar, perhaps toffee as well. Medium in body that may lean on the thin side. Overall no problem at all with a lightly creamy texture that lets this brew slide down my throat. Honestly if you don’t like this beer then you don’t like this German style. I enjoyed it and would purchase again.

Tried from Bottle on 21 Sep 2013 at 15:40


7.6
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

Thanks to Eugene for sharing - turbid reddish brown - nice nose, with appropriate sweetness, baked apples, clove, and light smoke, nutty wheat - medium dry, semi tart flavor - notes of nuttiness, cracked wheat, moderate clove, baked apple, mild banana, very subtle smoke - very solid dunkelweizen.

Tried on 13 Jul 2013 at 19:50


6
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6

Murky Brown, Good Head, Lacing. Not used to its appearance but I guess that is the style. Hardly any toast, more of citrus and wheat sourness. Easy and refreshing, helps if you like the style. Decent.

Tried on 20 May 2013 at 21:28


6.9
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

Pours hazy dark amber into a weizen. Tan head with good retention recedes to coat surface. Banana and bubblegum aromas. Thin with clove and banana front to back. Brief, dry bubblegum finish.

Tried on 20 May 2013 at 15:58