George Rittmayer Weizen. 500 ml can from the Costco German Biergarten Collection. Pours an opaque gold color with a small white head and decent retention. Fair lacing. Standard yeast and cloves aroma. The taste follows the nose: Yeasty flavor up front, with some cloves and fruity banana esters in the finish. Good example of the style, but not my preferred style. Better than most Hefeweizens I've had. Medium body. Medium-light carbonation. Not bitter.

23/V/24 - 50cl swing-top bottle @ Bjorn’s German beer tasting tryout, BB: 2/VII/24 16:02:P (2024-337) Thanks to ElManana for sharing the bottle!

Cloudy yellow beige beer, big fizzy creamy yellowish head, unstable, falls down quickly, a bit adhesive. Aroma: spicy, sulphur, very floral, a little dirty, some bubble gum, a bit yeasty. MF: ok carbon, medium body. Taste: pretty sour, a bit malty, wheat acidity, hint of alcohol, very yeasty, bubble gum. Aftertaste: a bit sourish, some banana, cloves, a bit soapy finish.

As Rittmayer Weizen at 5.0% ABV. Appearance: a nice classic Weizen look. Aroma: Banana, wheat bread, herbs, clove, apples & pears. Taste: Medium dry. Banana, wheat bread, apples & pears, grass, clove. Light ending bitterness. Mouth feel: Medium body. Mellow. Appropriate carbonation. Overall: Good one at reasonable money.

Bavarian Hefeweizen from Rittmayer, one of the world's oldest breweries (allegedly founded in 1422 and therefore celebrating its 600th birthday last year), located in Hallerndorf, some twenty-five miles north of Neurenberg. Considering the sheer age of this brewery and its location at the centre of a style I have been appreciating for some twenty years now, it surprised me that I apparently had not encountered this one before... Poured in a Weissbier 'Vase', it produces a thick, very frothy, audibly crackling, egg-white, pillowy, very mousse-like, slowly retreating head and initially crystal clear, warm apricot blonde robe with 'old golden' hue and columns of sparkling rising up, turning into that lovely Hefeweizen mistiness with the sediment added. Very malty and spicy-phenolic aroma of toasted but unsalted peanuts, freshly baked crackers, apple peel, ripe pear, overripe banana but not too strong, clove, dried rosemary, ginger powder, dried apricots, wet cinnamon, oven-baked pumpkin, freshly cut grass. Fruity onset, crisp apple peel and sweet banana and apricot notes, banana ester not too dominant though, with a slight sourish undertone from the wheat; lively carbonation with minerally effects, lovely wheat-slick yet full mouthfeel, bread-crustiness and even something cracker-like under a smooth sourish and slightly soapy wheatiness, carrying onwards these lovely fruity esters to a more phenolic finish with outspoken clove effect along with subtler rosemary and cinnamon, before a grassy and floral hop bitter element sets in - yet remains relatively meek and mild, as it befits the genre. Something very thinly cooked-meaty (proteins) lags behind. Wheat slickness, fruity esters, clove-like phenolics and very high drinkability: this is indeed a very Bavarian Hefeweizen, but there are sweet-spicy and cracker- to even vaguely gingerbread-like malt elements too which sets this Hallerndorfer Hefeweizen (the label on my sample indeed says 'Hefeweizen' rather than 'Hefeweissbier' but who cares) a bit apart from the other great Bavarian classics in this style. It also carries a bit more grassy hop bitterness than I am used to, yet without entering Hopfenweizen territory (which in fact is a relatively very recent addition to the German Weissbier family). Characterful, colourful and distinctive Hefeweizen: a bit different from what I was expecting, but all the more enjoyable for it. I love a good Hefeweizen (or Dunkelweizen, or even Kristallweizen) every now and then and this one was a delight.

Bottle, 500 ml at Ambasada. Cloudy golden with medium white head. Banana, bit yeasty, sweetish, somewhat thin towards the end. Medium bodied.

Deep amber with a frothy, off-white head. Big banana and apricot aroma. Taste is bittersweet the whole way through, a mix of very ripe banana sweetness and grainy bitterness. Big, heavy body, smooth, yeasty. Not particularly complex but does it’s thing well. Tasty.

0.5 l flip-top bottle at Valhalla. RBESG23. Cloudy golden, small off-white head. Soft banana and grainy notes. Bready and fruity flavour. Ripe banana and banana candy. Sweet. Drinkable. Medium body, slightly sticky sweet finish.

Kräftig orange Farbe. Fruchtnoten von Aprikose und Quitte in der Nase, etwas dezenter (und vergorener) im Geschmack. Florale Noten ergänzen. Minimal alkoholig ab dem Mittelteil. Dezent bitter, hopfig. Durchaus schmackhaft. Mundgefühl voll, weich, milchig.

Fles 50cl thuis. Zacht, zoet, banaan, abrikoos, steenfruit, redelijk romig, flink fruitig, klein zuurtje. (11-3-2023).

Draught @ SchwanenKeller, Strullendorf. Pours hazy straw with stable white head. Clear aroma of malt, banana, and yeast. Sweetish flavour of malt and banana, with estery and grainy touches. Malty and bananalike aftertaste with estery touches. Well-balanced, tasty, and nice.