Penn Weizen - Pennsylvania Brewing Company

MaltyGoodness

Pennsylvania

4.28/5  rDev +10.6%
look: 5 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 3 | overall: 4.5

Pours a cloudy pale yellow with a monsterous head - just as I would expect with a proper weizen.

Smell is very yeasty, with hints of banana and clove. More of a yeasty wheat bread smell than anything.

Taste is superb. Bananas and cloves and vanilla wrapped around a superb yeasty wheat base. This tastes as true to style as any of the imports. This is by far the best tasting weizen that I have tasted from an American brewery.

I think that the mouthfeel is the lone "weakness" of this beer. The body is a little on the thin side, more like a summer wheat than a weizen. The carbonation is about perfect, but this one could use just a little more backbone. With a fuller body, this would be an honest contender for best brewed anywhere in this style.

This weizen is extremely drinkable. With a modest ABV, a few pints can easily disappear without noticing. Definitely one that lovers of this style should try.

Serving type: on-tap

08-26-2005 20:23:57 | More by MaltyGoodness

99bottles

Pennsylvania

4.35/5  rDev +12.4%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.5

Apperance: Served in a pint glass, this hefeweizen is a dirty yellowish brown color and has noticeable haze. The head initally came about an inch tall, and soon clumped and moved and finally broke into spitter spatter blotches that looked like mold growing on the surface of a liquid. I love it.

Smell: A murky scent of wheat and yeast, very unique. This isn't a dumbed down American hefe, this is a authentic recreation of the real thing.

Taste: This beer exhibits many flavors, the first and most obvious being the spice of cloves and a taste of pepper. The yeast takes credit for the nice fruitiness, light notes of lemon and banana rise and are beaten back by the twang of the spices. Very murky, very real, and I'm not sure it can be beat when had fresh off a tap. Delicious.

Mouthfeel: Smooth and well rounded. Low to moderate carbonation, easy to sip. Quite refreshing when served cold.

Drinkability: Very very good, especially on tap. I wish I could get big old Weiss glasses of this. Unfortunately, I found it at a college bar which doesn't offer special glasses. Very tasty, very refreshing.

Serving type: on-tap

10-19-2004 17:46:20 | More by 99bottles

ADR

Pennsylvania

4.1/5  rDev +5.9%
look: 4 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4

I'm not a wheat fan but this stuff is great on tap, huge haze, fresh smell and a rolling banana/ester flavor. No trace of a citrus/sour flavor to my tongue. A real refresher from Pittsburgh's North Side...

Serving type: on-tap

03-06-2002 11:43:01 | More by ADR