Hopster
New Glarus Brewing Company in New Glarus, Wisconsin, United States 🇺🇸
Weizen - Hopfenweisse Rotating|
Score
6.98
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Expect to pour a thick creamy aromatic head. Savor the fierce onslaught of clove, cinnamon, and citrus to your nose. Cheers to discovery and friend.
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Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
Pour is a cloudy yellow with a large white head. Aroma is super hoppy for a hefe with some bready malts also showing up. Flavor is again starting off heavy on the hops then comes some of the banana and cloves. This is a different but outstanding beer.
Drake (22934) reviewed Hopster from New Glarus Brewing Company 16 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
12 ounce bottle brought back to New Glarus by a friend. Pours a hazy lemon yellow with a large creamy white head. Good head retention and lacing. Aroma is bread, yeast, citrus, banana, butterscotch, pear, apple, mango and spice. Taste is bread, citrus, spice, banana. It has a nice dry bite to it. Medium bodied. Damn good,
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
So I am getting to rate this, I have had a few from this recent batch and every time I drink it I find it beautifully crafted. First off it pours with a thick, voluptuous head, just so strong and full of character. The color of the beer is a radiant thick golden. Its hazy but never gets full or muddy, even with the final pour out of the bottle. The head fades, not too fast and not too slow. Aroma is thick banana esters. There is a nice character behind it, if you could imagine a dark yet white sweet bread maltiness. It works beautifully. There is a sweet poppy wheatiness all around as well. What the hell is a wheatiness, well, you know. The flavor is a bit sweeter and thinner esters coming through. It still works very well, especially for a thick and hardy-like hefe. I really don’t see this as an American Wheat, there might a bit of a more American hoppiness at the very end of the flavor but in general the beer is completely taken over by the yeast (I also used this yeast for a homebrew and the yeast really takes over). It has a nicely thicker mouthfeel that feels smooth and welcoming on the cheeks. An estery banana aftertaste lasts for a while. I have been drinking this for a couple months now, man New Glarus knows how to hit the spot sometimes.
12oz bottle, t’Smisje elongated chalice glass.
bookman65 (6047) reviewed Hopster from New Glarus Brewing Company 16 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Interesting beer that tastes like a cross between a wheat beer with an IPA or similar. Pours a lovely golden color with little to no head (as opposed to the "thick creamy" head promised on the bottle). Aroma contains notes of citrus and cloves, hops, etc. Flavor is very complex, with a hint of hefeweizen with the IPA in the background, waiting for the finish. Not sure this is entirely a successful marriage of styles, but it certainly is interesting and worth a try.
cagarvie (40076) reviewed Hopster from New Glarus Brewing Company 16 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Bottle at home from DLD haul ... thanks to Ughsmash for this ... light hazed yellow ... thin white head ... big bananan wheat nose ... again same in flavor... ok but they do a lot better.
nuplastikk (10473) reviewed Hopster from New Glarus Brewing Company 16 years ago
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
12oz bottle. Hazy golden-yellow with a big, frothy, white head. The aroma is mellow and fresh, maybe a tinge of lemony sour wheat. The taste is as advertised I suppose, a true marriage of tastes. I get some solid ambery red wheat flavor, with the wheaty tartness of a fresh Hefeweizen. Displays a lot more bitterness than you typical wheat of hefe. Sophisticated wheat beer for sure, very nice mouthfeel. Unique.
BMan1113VR (8090) reviewed Hopster from New Glarus Brewing Company 16 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Bottle via a trade with Daknole. Pours with a large, foamy white head over a hazed golden body. Head leaves good lace. Aroma of banana and tons and tons of vanilla pudding. Slightly spice note and a slight earthy presence. More vanilla milkshake like aroma when sniffed again. A vanilla bomb! Taste is spiced with a slightly medicinal note. Long finish of vanilla extract and a touch of orange. Light carbonation and a water like mouthfeel.
Bierkoning (17699) reviewed Hopster from New Glarus Brewing Company 16 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Bottle from TheEpeeist, thanks! Blonde, hazy. Citrus, chalk and a hint of flowery hops in the aroma. Citrus, lychee and some flowery hopbitterness in the flavor. Long hopbitter finish. Pretty decent.
JK (8181) reviewed Hopster from New Glarus Brewing Company 16 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
I was looking forward to this, based on how awesome most of their wheat beers are. This is good, but I’m not really into it. Lots of hops. Pine, and some wheat in the aroma. Light color color and a little cloudy. A little bit sweet, and a full palate, with lots of New Glarus house yeast character.
notalush (7339) reviewed Hopster from New Glarus Brewing Company 17 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Thanks to goldtwins for sharing - turbid gold with a soapy lace - very complex herbal aroma (lavender, heather), with loads of earthy wheat - soft carbonation in the mouth - quite spicy and bitter complimented well by clove phenols and herbal character - a really nice balance of these qualities - excellent.