7.5

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

Poured up at AZ Strong Beer Fest 2017, listed as German Kristalweizen, where it exhibits a nice clear deep gold body that supports a near white head of foam. The aroma offers up mild pear and kind of apple like esters as well as a pleasing inviting sweet bready to malty sort of sensation and then a faint yeastiness toward the end of the draw. The taste delivers smooth kind of modestly sweet pear to apple esters and then quickly getting into a nice bready to almost cracker sensation that really helps to ground and further integrate the flavor notes. Toward the finish there’s just a touch of yeastiness with an edge of bubble gum that comes in to add another facet. This is a really tasty offering of the style and it has just enough freshness and snap to keep it from ended up on the sweet and heavy side of the spectrum.