Stag Series #11 - Bananas Foster Weizenbock
August Schell Brewing Company in New Ulm, Minnesota, United States 🇺🇸
Weizen - Weizenbock Regular|
Score
7.10
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Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
12oz bottle. $1.99 sixpack! Big banana tone. Filtered orange-tan body. Pretty big ABV, creeps up on you...slight warming aftertaste. OK, but a touch boozt\y.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Got in a trade with The-Adjunct-Hippie. 12 ounce bottle into weizen glass, bottled on 8/27/2017. Pours moderately hazy golden orange/amber color with a 1-2 finger fairly dense and fluffy off white head with good retention, that reduces to a small cap that lingers. Nice spotty soapy lacing clings on the glass, with a good amount of streaming carbonation retaining the cap. Aromas of big banana, bubblegum, clove, cinnamon, nutmeg, pepper, pear, apple, caramel, brown sugar, toasted biscuit, herbal, grass, and yeast/toasted earthiness. Damn nice aromas with great balance and complexity of fruit/spicy yeast, cinnamon, and dark/bready malt notes; with great strength. Taste of big banana, bubblegum, clove, cinnamon, nutmeg, pepper, pear, apple, caramel, brown sugar, toasted biscuit, herbal, grass, and yeast/toasted earthiness. Light herbal/grassy bitterness and yeast spiciness on the finish. Lingering notes of banana, bubblegum, clove, cinnamon, nutmeg, pepper, pear, apple, caramel, brown sugar, toasted biscuit, herbal, grass, and yeast/toasted earthiness on the finish for a good bit. Great complexity, robustness, and balance of fruit/spicy yeast, cinnamon, and dark/bready malt flavors; with a great malt/bitter/spiciness balance, and zero cloying flavors after the finish. Lightly increasing dryness from bitter/spiciness and carbonation. Medium-high carbonation and medium-plus body; with a very smooth, moderately creamy/bready/grainy, and lightly sticky balanced mouthfeel that is great. Zero warming alcohol for 8.14%. Overall this is an excellent spiced Weizenbock. All around great complexity, robustness, and balance of fruit/spicy yeast, cinnamon, and dark/bready malt flavors;very smooth and easy to drink for the ABV. Perfectly balanced between all flavors, with a really great authentic German yeast profile going on. A very enjoyable offering, and spot on style example.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
Bottle. Pours a clear deep rust color with a white head that dissipates nearly completely. Aroma has a good amount of banana with some grains, light spice and clove supporting. Flavor has a bit of boozy banana with clove, sweet grains and a bit of cinnamon.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5
12 oz bottle from the Hwy 2 Road Trip. Aroma is all bananas, all the time. Cinnamon is there if I concentrate. Pours hazy new penny copper with a small off-white head. Taste is sweet and spicy with flavors of banana, clove, cinnamon, bread. Has an alcohol presence that gets stronger the more it warms up. Nice beer, but I wish it was a little less boozy.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
I was expecting a bit more from this. Poured with a very short-lived fizzy head and no lace collar is a slightly hazy Amber. Aroma is typical traditional German weizen. Flavor’s like nose and I don’t pick up the cinnamon nuances that others claim. It’s decent but nothing special.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 7.5
This weizenbock has a dark orange color and very little head that quickly fades away, yet retains prickly carbonation on the palate. Lots of banana in the aroma and the flavor. Cinnamon is there, but less so than the fruit. some flavor of alcohol as well, and combined with the cinnamon, I appreciate where the origin of the Bananas Foster name. Banana stays around in the aftertaste. Great flavors common to a wheat beer, and this is one of the best beers Schells has made in a long time.