Weiss Principal
Peak Organic Brewing Company in Portland, Maine, United States 🇺🇸
Brewed at/by: Shipyard Brewing CompanyWeizen - Hopfenweisse Rotating Out of Production
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Score
6.62
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Weiss Principal is the international love child of a German Hefe-Weisse and an American Double IPA. This unfiltered wheat beer employs a traditional German Weiss yeast, providing engaging banana and clove flavors. A stern dry-hopping of a pungent American hops provides pronounced citrus, pine & fruit notes.
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5.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 8
Overall 6
Draught @ Toronado, San Francisco, CA
Pours hazy deep golden with a off-white head. Aroma has notes of malt, wheat, bubblegum, caramel and orange. Taste is medium to heavy sweet and medium bitter with a long warm, caramel and orange finish. Body is medium to full, texture is oily, carbonation is soft.
Pours hazy deep golden with a off-white head. Aroma has notes of malt, wheat, bubblegum, caramel and orange. Taste is medium to heavy sweet and medium bitter with a long warm, caramel and orange finish. Body is medium to full, texture is oily, carbonation is soft.
Tried
on 05 Aug 2013
at 07:36
5.2/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 5
On tap at Toronado. It pours an unclear dark golden body and a small, dense off-white head. Lots of bubblegum on the nose, along with a touch of pale malts, fruits and cloves. The flavor is pretty much the same, equally boring, with Aimee bitterness and bread. Medium body and decent carbonation. Some bitterness in the end. Overall, boring. 130804
Tried
from Draft
on 04 Aug 2013
at 21:07
7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
22oz bomber split with Anndiesel. Super yeasty, unfiltered thick orange-tan. Creamy, impressive white head. I’m not a fan of most Double Wits I’ve had, but this one sort of reminds me more of a big German Weizenbock. albeit more aggressively hopped...hmmm..sort of like a big White IPA in a sense. Orange juice, grapefruit, banana, clove. Very nice offering, another winner from Peak.
Tried
on 12 Apr 2013
at 22:24
7/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Super hazy golden coloured body with an orange glow and a thinnish, one centimetre tall just off-white head. Aroma of super pungent wheat, tons of hops, alcohol, bread, yeast, coriander seed and a bunch of curacao. Full-bodied; Strong alcohol flavour with some resin and a bunch of hops in the mix, all with a lot of oranges, grapefruits and a rather bitter metallic note. Aftertaste shows some strong flavours with the hops up front, alcohol and a strong earthy yeastiness. Overall, a rather deep and full-flavoured beer with some good tastes and perhaps too much bitterness, some from hops, but most from alcohol and metallic flavours. I sampled this 65 cL bottle purchased from Total Wine in McLean, Virginia on 24-October-2012 for US$6.49 sampled at home in Washington on 10-Noember-2012.
Tried
from Bottle
on 10 Nov 2012
at 23:12
6.8/10
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Appearance 2
Aroma 9
Flavor 8
Texture 2
Overall 8
Marigold and lemongrass nose, soil accents, banana hints. Cloudy amber, abundant sediment, headless. Lilly dominant flavor upfront, moonpie banana and marshmallow barge in at midpalate. Somewhat chemical in the finish,. A little resinous as well, which I find off putting with the typical weizen flavors. I attribute that to a weird gestalt between the floral hop notes and fruity hefe yeast esters. I really dig the idea of hoppy hefes, as my past rating will attest. I don’t think the selection of hops wa right for this base beer, however.
Tried
on 23 Aug 2012
at 18:29
6.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 8
Overall 6
Bottle. Banana and wheat malt aroma. Hazy golden yellow with large head. Very sweet banana/orange and wheat malt flavor. Bitter alcoholic and light orange peel finish. Different - not bad but on the harsh side.
Tried
from Bottle
on 17 Aug 2012
at 18:14
5.9/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
A golden ale with a thin white head. In aroma, strange fruity malt with tangerine pulp, a bit off. In mouth, a chalky honey malt, sweet, oxidized, with orn grits, alcohol warmth, rather cloying. On tap at Somerville Summerfest, July 14, 2012.
Tried
from Draft
on 07 Aug 2012
at 10:47
6.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 7
Bomber from Whole Foods Market Charlottesville. Pours a hazy amber color with a large frothy off-white head. Decent head retention. Big bananas in the aroma along with some wheat, spice and earth. The taste is wheat, spice, citrus, resin, Pine-sol, tropical fruits. No, I’ve never tasted Pine-Sol, but this is coming across as chemically fruity, which is what I imagine it tastes like. Medium bodied, high carbonation. A little disjointed, but not bad. EDIT: I JUST now got that this is pronounced Vice Principal. Duh!
Tried
on 08 Jul 2012
at 16:10
7.2/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 7
22oz bottle-pours a foamy white head with gold color. OK, cloudy gold when including the second half of bottle, with lots of yeast solids and a yeast cake still at bottom of bottle. That’s way too much even for unfiltered beer. Aroma is fruit/spice, wheat/light malt-bready. Taste is sweet wheat/light malt-bready, tropical fruit/lemon/spice/perfumy hops. Starts out nice, gets nicer, until the yeast really starts becoming a big detractor.
Tried
from Bottle
on 25 Nov 2011
at 08:18
8.6/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 10
Overall 8.5
Gold foiled bomber, . . . and just a moment . . . yes, it is a foiled twist off bomber (wtf), pours brilliantly clear copper with nice off white head. OK 8.6% Hefe? Here goes. The aroma is a mix of pulsing spicy hops, smooth sweet banana, some pear and a bit of booze. Not so bad. I was expecting a punishing sweet estery onslaught. The taste is refreshingly not what I was expecting at all. There are firm notes of sweet banana, apple and pear but those notes are tamed by bold spicy hops, resiny bitter pine hops and some herbal green grassy hops. This beer achieves a pleasing balance between imperial hefe and IIPA that is working very well for me. It has bold brash flavors all in the right places. Easily my highest rated Peak Organic beer. Another mark of a good beer is that the more I drink the more I like it. Well done!
Tried
on 26 Aug 2011
at 18:52