König Ludwig Weiss (Royal Bavarian Hefe-Weizen) - Kaltenberg International / König Ludwig International GmbH & Co.KG

Redrover

Illinois

3.98/5  rDev +4.2%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 4

16.9 oz Brown bottle. Clear best by date.

The beer pours a beautiful yellow straw color. Very hazy with the yeast sentiment visible. The smell is great. Clear hints of bananas, clove & other spice. Nice head.

Taste is terrific! Very refreshing. Malt keeps everything in balance. Good carbonation and slight yeasty taste compliments the banana, cloves,etc that this beer like all good weiss beer have. Great example of style!


Mouthfeel is slightly thin, but not too bad. Easy drinking beer here!

Serving type: bottle

02-15-2003 04:45:25 | More by Redrover

rabidawg

Georgia

4.13/5  rDev +8.1%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 4

Appearance: Pours a cloudy gold with a nice head. Looks just the way a hefe should.

Smell: Slight banana and a sour, citrusy tinge.

Taste: I'd never experienced this style before going to Germany, and one sip of this took me right back to a warm summer evening in Munich. Very crisp, very dry, slightly carbonated . . . a strange juxtaposition - this beer and a cold New England night. But then, I needed a reminder of what liveable temperatures were like . . . all that from the taste of a beer. That's really what makes this so great.

Mouthfeel - I guess I blended this with the taste section, so I'll let the dry and crisp stand.

Drinkability: As with most Hefes I've had, this one is made for sitting and sipping several. The taste doesn't get old, and I find myself wishing I'd bought a sixer instead of a single.

Serving type: bottle

02-05-2003 22:26:12 | More by rabidawg

Suds

Pennsylvania

3.03/5  rDev -20.7%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3 | taste: 3 | feel: 3 | overall: 3

I really wasn’t very impressed with this one. Read a blurb about Bavarian Royalty and this beer in All About Beer, and figured that I’d pick it up. I don’t think I’ll buy it again.

Pours with a puffy, medium sized white head and a pale, hazy yellow color. Aroma is yeasty, with muted esters. Banana and clove are very far in the background. Very faint citrus smell. Soft mouthfeel, and a little doughy. Wheat tangy-tartness is in the taste, but it’s subdued and thin. Uninteresting and uninspiring.

Serving type: bottle

01-25-2003 06:25:38 | More by Suds

cokes

Wisconsin

3.3/5  rDev -13.6%
look: 4 | smell: 3 | taste: 3 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 4

Clouded honey-hued body. Wet, frothy ivory head. Impressive looking, per the style.
Muted nose of clove and banana. Spot on, but weak.
Begins with some typical weiss tones. Bananas and cloves. A touch peppery, with some trace lemon notes. Less assertive than most. Turns chalk-like at the finish. This is less a distraction than the only unique trait it exemplifies. Very dry at the closure. Simple and perhaps boring, but do-able.
Body is fluffed and airy, yet chalky and powdery at the same time. There is a water-down aspect present as well.
Totally unmemorable, yet poundable. It may be a good intro to macro-inclined friends.

Serving type: bottle

01-25-2003 01:03:56 | More by cokes

cretemixer

Indiana

2.28/5  rDev -40.3%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3 | taste: 2 | feel: 2 | overall: 2

Cloudy straw colored brew with a white head that fades to a thin almost nonexistent layer fast. No lace to speak of. Bready yeast smell with a citrus bite on the nose. Banana flavors hit me on my first sip. Very dry right up to the end. There seems to be something missing from this beer, it just doesn't have much character to speak of. Thin and dry on the mouthfeel. I was actually thirsty after drinking this beer. I can't recommend it.

Serving type: bottle

01-04-2003 06:30:45 | More by cretemixer

pbrian

Connecticut

3.8/5  rDev -0.5%
look: 3 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 4

Extremely light straw colored, minimally cloudy as the yeast was tightly compacted and you really have to give a good swirl to get it in your beer. Thin creamy white head. Banana and clove aroma, leaning more towards the spices. Lemony flavors start but is accompanied by the typical banana, clove, wheaty tart flavors. Light to medium bodied. Overall a good refreshing hefe.

Serving type: bottle

12-31-2002 06:23:09 | More by pbrian

Longstaff

Massachusetts

3.83/5  rDev +0.3%
look: 4.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.5

Very light colored Hefe with a near perfect head of tight bubbles and a meringue like crown. Creamy lemon flavors dominate along with subtle clove and banana flavors. Somewhat tart and refreshing. Finishes with a rough alcohol flavor that distracts from the creamy malt goodness. Went really well with the Bratwurst dinner I made. I will try this again when I find it.

Serving type: bottle

12-06-2002 07:28:13 | More by Longstaff

jackndan

Illinois

3.1/5  rDev -18.8%
look: 3 | smell: 3 | taste: 3 | feel: 3 | overall: 3.5

Konig Ludwig Weiss: Cloudy, golden beer with a pure white head. Brwon 330 ml bottle, with yellow labels. Best by date clearly marked on the box and bottle. The head came and left very quickly. Nice aroma of bananas and yeast. Very light and refreshing Weiss beer, but the taste seemed a little flat. There are better Weiss out there, but this ain’t bad.

Serving type: bottle

09-12-2002 19:44:19 | More by jackndan

marc77

California

2.68/5  rDev -29.8%
look: 4 | smell: 2.5 | taste: 2.5 | feel: 2.5 | overall: 3

Cloudy dark straw hue, covered by a thick well retained head that leaves lace. Grainy wheat upfront in aroma, followed by snap of tartness, a hint of clove phenol and a slightly metallic tinge. The flavor is dominated by wheat tartness supported by bready malt. Yeast esters fall short of providing contrast to the grainy flavors, and only light banana is discernible. Mid palate, the brew becomes dry, leaving an odd void in flavor. Paltry hop bitterness offsets the very light malt sweetness. Lightly bodied for style, with a somewhat chalky mouthfeel. Finishes watery, with light lemony tartness briefly lingering. An uninspired, somewhat bland hefeweizen akin to an American version.

Serving type: bottle

09-07-2002 17:20:51 | More by marc77

Jason

Massachusetts

3.7/5  rDev -3.1%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4

500 ml brown bottle with no freshness date, a little blurb about the beer on the back label. Decent lace for the style with some sporadic stickage, even cloudiness within the pale golden brew.

Light but sharp twang of wheat, soft spiciness and faint yeast in the aroma.

The mouth feel is structured very well with a deeply textured carbonation that provides a stellar crispness in the moderate body. Big bursting juicy wheat malt flavours, lots of grain in the mouth and so in a dry way. Quick cut into the palate with some clove spiciness, very mild alcohol character other than the light warming. Yeastiness is earthy and mineral like and adds a needed harshness to the palate for balance. Dry finish with a clean lingering grain.

A good solid German wheat beer, give this one a go especially if you are into really dry wheat beers. I’ll be going back to this one on occasion.

Serving type: bottle

08-14-2002 18:34:19 | More by Jason

ElGuapo

New Jersey

3.85/5  rDev +0.8%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 3

an exceptional weiss. very cloudy and very smooth without an overpowering flavor like the victory whirlwind. after having a few great weiss beers, this one trickled down the line to a decent example, but it is a very flavorful beer worth drinking. it has a monster amount of yeast, which finer weiss beers blend much better, but what can i say it is what it is.

Serving type: bottle

07-18-2002 18:00:43 | More by ElGuapo

Todd

Massachusetts

4.3/5  rDev +12.6%
look: 3.5 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.5

Presentation: 11.2oz brown bottle. Freshness date on the back label.

Appearance: Very cloudy pale golden beer with a white foam head that settles to a creamy lace.

Smell: Lemony citric, light malty aroma and hints of clove and yeast.

Taste: Extremely smooth and creamy on the palate with an even, sweet malt character. It broken by a soft lemon bitterness that strikes the palate with some backing carbonation fizz and settles back into the malt. Banana and thin notes of clove and other herbals fold into the sweet malt which makes a second round with a touch of sweet caramel. A little dry, bitty and oily in the finish.

Notes: A very flavourful hefeweizen beer (especially if you leave 1/4 in the bottle, swirl and pour into your glass -- yeast is good). Balanced, complex, traditional and quite the authentic beer. A world class beer in my beer book.

Thanks to Warsteiner for the sample!

Serving type: bottle

07-07-2002 08:56:45 | More by Todd