Haystack Wheat

Golden with a slight haze and small head for a weizen. Sharp spicy aroma. The flavor is sweet ending with a tangy fruit finish. Smooth on the tongue with a little bite from the wheat.

Hazy yellow appearance with a bit of an orange tint. A thin white head tops the beer well. Smells of lemon, yeast, wheat, coriander seed and bananas are all very present. Medium-bodied; Strong yeastieness, a good wheat taste full of spices (cloves & coriander) and fruits (bananas and lemons) make it very nice. The aftertaste is filled with the spicey notes as well as a bit of the yeastie & wheatiness from the beer. A great all around beer, a better than average german wheat! Worth finding if you are in Colorado or here in Washington! Not suprisingly enough my bottle was from the same batch as Aaron (bottled 22-April-2003). I bought this twelve ounce bottle at Norm's in Vienna, Virginia.

Straw gold and lightly hazed. Full thick head. Zesty aroma of banana and perhaps mint. Light wheaty flavor with understated esters. Some banana and spice. Light peppering in the finish. Clean finish. Good take on the style. Man, the surprises in my new re-rates of LH beers never cease! This taste very much like a cross between a wit and a hefeweizen, now. I guess the cloves are getting stronger? Notes: Poured showing a moderately cloudy copper-orange color beneath a weak, fizzy head. But dang, the nose featured a very distinct and pleasing clovey phenolic character, and so suddenly we’ve got some witbier character. The flavor didn’t quite hold up its end of the bargain. The same phenolic components are present, but are buried beneath a sweet malt component that is just a bit too much. I don’t recall ever saying this in a review before, but this beer had too *much* body. A lighter malt profile could have allowed the fermentation character to shine. Instead, we get a muddled melange of indistinct sweet malts, a swirling of phenols, and a strange lemony tartness that lingers well after the finish.

Tasted at the Barrelhouse Brewing Company Microbrew Fest on November 9. Cloudy yellow color with a medium white head. Pineapple and grapefruit aroma. Although this had a clean spicy/berry flavor and finish, I didn''t find it very exciting.

Golden coloured, slightly hazy. Clean flavour with hint of banana. Not bad, but I like the more estery versions better.