Winged Nut
Urban Chestnut Brewing Company in St. Louis, Missouri, United States 🇺🇸
Weizen - Dunkelweizen Regular|
Score
6.21
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We affectionately refer to the first beer in our Revolution series of modern, American craft beer, as our unusual little bird. It’s a little on the flighty side at 5.4% ABV, and it’s a little on the wacky side because we brew it with finely milled chestnuts (genus castanea …for you nut freaks), Willamette hops, and we ferment it with a Bavarian Weissbier yeast strain. All of these nuances contribute to its ‘nutty’ personality.
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5.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 3
Flavor 4
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Nearly clear, amber with a large tan head. Scent is old wood, nuts, malt, banana peel. Flavour is slightly bitter/tangy/herbal/nutty...... Nut flavor is sharp to bitter leaning. Strong woodiness, almost tart, oily, solvent... Just didn’t work well for me.
Tried
on 20 Jun 2013
at 19:15
8/10
Tried
on 01 Jun 2013
at 13:53
4.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 4
Flavor 4
Texture 4
Overall 4
Sampled on draft at the House of 1000 beers this beer poured an orange-caramel color with a medium sized foamy beige head that faded quickly and left no lacing. The aroma was faint and dryish with touches of walnut and wood. The flavor was dry and woody with notes of walnut, faint smoke, a bit of turpentine and an off medicinal presence. Long finish of turpentine and walnut. Medium body though a bit undercarbonated. Not good.
Tried
from Draft
on 17 Mar 2013
at 10:25
5.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 4.5
Bottle @ home, courtesy of jcnielsen. Thanks Jetson! Pours a hazy, dark orange appearance with a cream colored head. Slight DMS, cooked veggie, nutty, roasted malty, lightly phenolic aroma. Tangy, burnt roasted malty, nutty, tangy, strangely sweet flavor with a fair earthy/herbal element also going on. Maybe it would have been better fresh?
Tried
from Bottle
on 09 Jan 2013
at 23:54
7.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 9
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 7
Pint bottle courtesy of beastiefan2k. The pour is light haze orange golden, with a bit of a reddish undertone. The two inch off white heads falls noisily. The aroma is rich and full nuttiness, freshly cut hay, spice and cloves, and a whisper of banana. Really engaging nose; at the same time, all flavors are well defined individually and blend together nicely. The taste is malty roasty nuttiness (certainly Chestnut), along with a briefly sweet caramel, turning to dry straw and hay, then finishing with the spiced yeast clove. The Banana is there, though pretty minimal in the longer finish. Also as it warms, get some nutmeg. The palate is light to medium bodied, soft carbonation and a dry and nutty clove finish. As mentioned, the banana fruit comes out in the finish, particularly as it warms. This was really well made, loved the nose. Thanks for this Eugene.
Tried
from Bottle
on 03 Dec 2012
at 19:11
7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 8
Bottle from Wine & Cheese in Clayton, MO. Pours hazy light amber with a creamy near-white head. Damned if it doesn’t smell a little like chestnuts. With a little citrus and very little spice. Near med body. Flavor is banana and light spice - so hefeweizen, but there’s a little nutty roastiness, not to mention a little oily chestnutiness. A little light for a dunkel, but with the nutiness it moves into that. Other than a bit of oiliness this is a pretty darn good beer.
Tried
from Bottle
on 13 Jul 2012
at 17:49
6.9/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
On tap at the brewhouse. Very interesting and complex beer. Lots of bready Belgian funk going on here from the yeast. Brown and clear with a nice off-white head.
Tried
from Draft
on 27 Jan 2012
at 00:24
7.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
on tap-pours an offwhite head with copper color. Aroma is medium malt/wheat-bready/caramel, banana as it warms. A lot going on. Taste follows with a secondary spice hop. Interesting.
Tried
from Draft
on 16 Jul 2011
at 07:28
6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
Pour is a brown with a large tan head. Aroma is earthy and malty with a little hops in the backround. Flavor is again starts out eathy malts then comes a little nuttyness from the chestnuts. Decent beer but nothing to get excited about.
Tried
on 10 Apr 2011
at 07:38