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

The newest Brouwbar beer to date, released during the 'second lockdown' in the Covid-19 pandemic in Belgium; a kind of Hopfenweizen, using Hallertau Blanc, one of those German-bred hop varieties in New World style catering to the still relatively few (but quickly increasing) German brewers that tackle American craft beer styles; released in 2012, this hybrid of Cascade and Hüll Melon (or something very close to that) is typically marketed as a highly aromatic, fruity variety. Thanks to Steve for fetching the bottles at Brouwbar! Egg-white, mousy, medium thick, slowly dissipating and opening head on a cloudy apricot blonde beer with ochre-ish tinge. Delicate aroma of ripe peach, honeydew, camomile tea, drying lemon zest, jasmin blossom, lemongrass, damp straw, banana bread, biscuit, powder sugar, grass, clove and a touch of chewing gum. Sweetish, fruity onset, banana ester and cooked pear but in a rather restrained, streamlined way, softish in carbonation with a slick, bit soapy body; white-bready core, well-edged with a slight biscuity touch and a sourish wheatiness to it, aromatized by very fruity, delicate hoppiness from the Hallertau Blanc, bringing back the associations with white and yellow fruit retronasally. Some grassy bitterness lingers, along with that banana effect and slick, thinly biscuity maltiness. Well, this is Hopfenweizen indeed, but in a rather innovative way (as compared with the archetypical Hopfenweizen - see Schneider's TAP 5) by shifting the emphasis from hop bitterness - not traditionally present in Hefeweizen - to hop aroma, which in today's beer world offers sheer limitless possibilities. Could just as well pass for an American style wheat ale in my opinion, it has a lot more in common with those than with true Bavarian Hefeweizen, but a smooth, streamlined, elegant and delicate little beer nonetheless. I would not have minded a tad more actual bitterness, though. --- Beer merged from original tick of HW54 Hefeweizen on 20 Nov 2020 at 22:45 - Score: Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7. Original review text: The newest Brouwbar beer to date, released during the 'second lockdown' in the Covid-19 pandemic in Belgium; a kind of Hopfenweizen, using Hallertau Blanc, one of those German-bred hop varieties in New World style catering to the still relatively few (but quickly increasing) German brewers that tackle American craft beer styles; released in 2012, this hybrid of Cascade and Hüll Melon (or something very close to that) is typically marketed as a highly aromatic, fruity variety. Thanks to Steve for fetching the bottles at Brouwbar! Egg-white, mousy, medium thick, slowly dissipating and opening head on a cloudy apricot blonde beer with ochre-ish tinge. Delicate aroma of ripe peach, honeydew, camomile tea, drying lemon zest, jasmin blossom, lemongrass, damp straw, banana bread, biscuit, powder sugar, grass, clove and a touch of chewing gum. Sweetish, fruity onset, banana ester and cooked pear but in a rather restrained, streamlined way, softish in carbonation with a slick, bit soapy body; white-bready core, well-edged with a slight biscuity touch and a sourish wheatiness to it, aromatized by very fruity, delicate hoppiness from the Hallertau Blanc, bringing back the associations with white and yellow fruit retronasally. Some grassy bitterness lingers, along with that banana effect and slick, thinly biscuity maltiness. Well, this is Hopfenweizen indeed, but in a rather innovative way (as compared with the archetypical Hopfenweizen - see Schneider's TAP 5) by shifting the emphasis from hop bitterness - not traditionally present in Hefeweizen - to hop aroma, which in today's beer world offers sheer limitless possibilities. Could just as well pass for an American style wheat ale in my opinion, it has a lot more in common with those than with true Bavarian Hefeweizen, but a smooth, streamlined, elegant and delicate little beer nonetheless. I would not have minded a tad more actual bitterness, though.

from a trade with tderoeck

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

Bottle from take-away. Hazy yellow with a small, frothy, white head. Aroma of banana, ripe apple, apricot, melon, toasted white bread, honey, clove, wheat, vague mandarin peel. Taste has sweetish banana & apple, subtle pear, not overly estery at that, sourish wheat underneath against a bready malty backbone. Clove-like spiciness announces the spicy-earthy hoppy finish where dry yeast & ripe yellow fruit linger. Medium body, slick texture, average carbonation. Elegantly & still subtly hopped Weizen.

Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

25/XI/20 - 33cl bottle from Brouwbar (Gent), shared @ home, BB: 29/IV/21 (2020-1081)

Pretty clear orange blond beer, big creamy irregular white head, pretty stable, adhesive, leaving a nice lacing in the glass. Aroma: malty, grains, banana, bit herbal, some cow fodder, overripe banana. MF: ok carbon, medium body. Taste: lots and lots of banana, malty, grains, bit herbal, grassy bitterness, some citrus. Aftertaste: yeasty, spicy touch, lots of banana, slightly sweet, soft bitterness, hint of citrus. Not bad, but a bit too heavy on the banana for me.