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 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 5
Pours gold into a shaker. Bright white micro head with very good retention recedes to coat surface. Hot banana and clove aromas. Dark sour clove front to back with a cloying clove finish. Cloves.
Tried
on 04 Aug 2011
at 16:06
6.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
22oz bottle thanks to AirForceHops
Appearance: Pours slightly hazy golden with a big creamy white head and lots of sticky lacing
Aroma: Wheat, yeast, clove, citrus and spices
Taste: Sweet malts, citrus, spices, hot alcohols with a bitter finish
Ok. The sweetness and alcohols took over and covered up a usually light and refreshing beer.
Appearance: Pours slightly hazy golden with a big creamy white head and lots of sticky lacing
Aroma: Wheat, yeast, clove, citrus and spices
Taste: Sweet malts, citrus, spices, hot alcohols with a bitter finish
Ok. The sweetness and alcohols took over and covered up a usually light and refreshing beer.
Tried
from Bottle
on 03 Aug 2011
at 09:17
5.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 4
Texture 6
Overall 5
Pours a really clear deep golden color with a huge bubbly white head that sticks around forever. Smells of clove and allspice with hints of banana. There’s lots of spicy yeast esters and a bit of lemon in this one and I heard tell there’s some malt in here too, but I can’t find it in the nose. Oh there it is. First sip proves there’s some sweet malt in there. Taste is tart spicy phenolic-y. There’s malt up front followed by an unpleasant alcohol burn then some clove and nail polish. Finishes with a lingering alcohol burn mixed with lemon pledge and a bit of earthiness. Sweet sticky mouthfeel, medium to full body and a spirited level of carbonation. Wow after the last few Peak beers really impressing me, this was quite a letdown. I don’t think the high level of hops the spicy wheat, yeast, and alcohol meld very well in this one. One and done.
Tried
from Can
on 15 Jul 2011
at 23:14
7.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7.5
22 oz bottle. Purchased at Gary’s Beverage, Portsmouth, NH . Color of grapefruit juice. Thick, huge white head that died within about 2 minutes. Leaving a small ring of spider web lace. Taste upfront is a sweet clove, light banana with a nice grapefruit toward the finish. Little to no bitterness. I pick up some pine as it gets warm. Medium to fuller body. This is the 1st dry hopped German Hefeweizen I ever had. A very nice and interesting take on my Favorite style. Very enjoyable, I’m going to get a few more bottles before summers end. Shared with LiteWait.
Tried
from Bottle
on 18 Jun 2011
at 19:43