Berghoff Heartland Hefe Weizen - Minhas Craft Brewery

KTCamm

New Jersey

2.53/5  rDev -14.8%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 2 | feel: 2.5 | overall: 2.5

Poured from a twelve ounce bottle into a pint glass.

Pours pale golden colored with fizzy & fast white foam. Just some smidges remain. Classic smell, though on the lighter side. More banana, less spice. Wheat/tart too. Taste though, is a little mixed up - kind of feels thrown together. The bite is off. Not quite right.

Serving type: bottle

12-16-2012 15:34:38 | More by KTCamm

leprechaunandfatman

Illinois

3.25/5  rDev +9.4%

03-05-2013 04:17:06 | More by leprechaunandfatman

A60sburnout

Illinois

3.44/5  rDev +15.8%
look: 3.75 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 2.75 | overall: 3.25

Poured from a 12 oz bottle.

A- Cloudy, but not enough to truly represent the style. A thin foam head dissolves to a short, white cap floating on an inviting gold liquid

S- Very powerful aromas of banana and cloves. Very little malt presence and no hop presence in the aroma. This beer certainly smells like a hefeweizen.

T- Initial taste reminds me of a macro-brewed hefeweizen. The initial taste is OK, but it evolves into a watery aftertaste. Reminds me of something the big brewers would make.

M- Not much mouthfeel atr all; very watery.

O- OK, but just. It's a passable representation of the style; a nice, affordable choice for some summertime backward quaffing, but I've had better...

Serving type: bottle

01-24-2013 20:43:58 | More by A60sburnout

cliff1066

Virginia

3/5  rDev +1%

12-22-2012 03:43:32 | More by cliff1066

JALIEN

Illinois

2.75/5  rDev -7.4%

11-25-2012 23:40:19 | More by JALIEN

Stevie_Janowski

Illinois

3.75/5  rDev +26.3%

09-24-2012 02:38:36 | More by Stevie_Janowski

Whiskeydeez

Kansas

3/5  rDev +1%

09-21-2012 17:46:20 | More by Whiskeydeez

cindyloopeeples

2.75/5  rDev -7.4%

08-25-2012 03:20:27 | More by cindyloopeeples

nheinzie57

Illinois

3/5  rDev +1%

06-27-2012 14:47:38 | More by nheinzie57

Bauman1535

3.25/5  rDev +9.4%

06-19-2012 01:50:21 | More by Bauman1535

dlin0sbb

Ohio

3/5  rDev +1%

06-12-2012 16:18:06 | More by dlin0sbb

illini4x4

3/5  rDev +1%

05-29-2012 04:10:08 | More by illini4x4

TimRasmussen

Wisconsin

5/5  rDev +68.4%

05-17-2012 20:36:54 | More by TimRasmussen

scaliasux

Wisconsin

2.25/5  rDev -24.2%
look: 4 | smell: 2.5 | taste: 2 | feel: 2.5 | overall: 2

Appearance - Medium yellow and cloudy. Tall foamy white head with good retention.

Smell - Light to medium wheat and lemony sourness. Clove and/or banana not prominent.

Taste - Light bready wheat and strong citrus (lemon) sourness. Lacks banana and clove flavors. One note.

Mouthfeel - Medium light. Crisp.

Overall - This is pretty light and refreshing. Might be nice on a hot summer day. I don't think, however, that this beer will satisfy most looking for a hefeweizen.

Serving type: bottle

04-13-2012 02:53:04 | More by scaliasux

TMoney2591

Illinois

2.25/5  rDev -24.2%

03-18-2012 20:23:23 | More by TMoney2591

doucmehu

Wisconsin

2.42/5  rDev -18.5%
look: 2 | smell: 2.5 | taste: 2.5 | feel: 2 | overall: 2.5

Poured into wine goblet during Super Bowl.

A: slightly hazy golden straw, looks too filtered for style and not enough body.

S: Lots of grain and a bit of white bread, yeast.

T: Grain and white bread something trying to be a Belgian yeast, a slight dry tartness in the finish. Just a bit of spice.

M: Below average, lacking crispness and prickly carbonation, smooth finish I expect with the style.

O: Tastes little an old heff made with cheap ingredients

Serving type: bottle

02-06-2012 04:13:31 | More by doucmehu

WastingFreetime

Wisconsin

2.78/5  rDev -6.4%
look: 3 | smell: 2.5 | taste: 2.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 3

Reviewed from session notes.

Pours out a darker straw color, with another lazy foam collar for a head, aroma is way too faint but mostly made up of yeasty goodness on top of a subdued banana note, but the flavor isn't quite the same thing as promised by the smell. Flavor is instead more like a weaker lemon wheat profile as one would expect from a witbier, not a hefe, also pushed somewhat too far into sweetness levels for my personal taste. So what I'm trying to say is that I wish the yeastiness of the aroma properly translated through into the flavor and that it was about 15% drier in profile. Texture is really nice, however, medium thick and well carbonated for the weight of the body.

This one isn't bad, but not great either.

Serving type: bottle

01-24-2012 00:16:57 | More by WastingFreetime

scootercrabb

Illinois

3/5  rDev +1%

12-13-2011 00:28:15 | More by scootercrabb

murf1087

Indiana

3/5  rDev +1%

12-12-2011 22:12:15 | More by murf1087

brewdog13

Indiana

1/5  rDev -66.3%

12-07-2011 17:55:12 | More by brewdog13

cagocubs

Illinois

3.25/5  rDev +9.4%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3 | feel: 3 | overall: 3.5

Part III of my Berghoff tasting. Poured from bottle into hefe glass.

A: Pours a hazy amber, dark gold with a 1 finger foamy white head that sticks around and laces. Looks like a legit hefe.

S: Clean smelling. Wheat, citrus, and spice aromas prevail.

T: A sweet taste, almost juicy. The wheat and spice can be tasted. An odd bubblegum taste comes through in the middle and sticks around to the aftertaste. A fruity bubblegum. Odd, but not offensive, actually a little interesting.

M: Good carbonation and mouth coating. The body is less creamy than expected.

O: After having two abysmal beers from Minhas I was worried, to my surprise this one was actually decent. When comparing these to German Hefes there isn't much of a match, but a decent beer from Minhas.

Serving type: bottle

08-06-2011 04:19:19 | More by cagocubs

tykees88

Indiana

3.65/5  rDev +22.9%
look: 3.5 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3 | overall: 4

A- Yellow color off white head

S- Very strong banana with little bit of clove. No hops present in the smell or malts for that matter.

T- It's banana in a bottle. Let's just leave it at that.

M- Thin bodied and somewhat creamy.

D- Good hefe for the summer, but the banana is too much for the style, drinkable if you want a banana beer though.

Serving type: bottle

05-16-2010 13:52:34 | More by tykees88

sweemzander

Illinois

3.18/5  rDev +7.1%
look: 2.5 | smell: 3 | taste: 3 | feel: 3 | overall: 4

12oz. bottle poured into an imperial pint. No bottled date. Thanks to BeerFMAndy for the bottle.

(A)- Pours a clear straw yellow color that produced no head at all even after a vigorous pour.

(S)- Lots of ripe banana with a bit of spice & lemon.

(T)- Very thin flavors of biscuit-like banana & lemon.

(M)- Good carbonation level & balance, but has a very thin body that is rather watery.

(D)- A pretty basic hefeweiss that could be much more than what it is. Crisp and refereshing for a summer's day, but not a whole lot of flavor. Sessionable

Serving type: bottle

01-02-2010 03:57:02 | More by sweemzander

bigreduw64

Wisconsin

2.65/5  rDev -10.8%
look: 2 | smell: 4 | taste: 2 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 2.5

Pours a golden yellow color, with very little head. A slight haze to the beer. Not quite what I like to see out of a hefe, was expecting a large head and cloudiness that I could barely see through, this is not the case.

Aroma is enticing, great yeast profile evident with aromas of tropical fruits. Now I think this beer has some promise.

Unfortunately on first taste the tropical fruit flavors are undermined by a sweet lemony flavor. Not a good flavor profile, cloyingly sweet. It has a banana and clove flavor that I typically enjoy, but somehow this just doesn't work.

Good mouthfeel, however drinkability goes down with the cloying sweetness and a wierd aftertaste.

Not going to get this one again.

Serving type: bottle

10-27-2009 03:00:36 | More by bigreduw64

BeerFMAndy

Wisconsin

3.28/5  rDev +10.4%
look: 2.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3 | feel: 3 | overall: 4

12 oz bottle poured into a weiss glass. No date or info.

A - The dull, hazy yellow straw color is filled with bubbles rising up but the white head drops like flies in winter. Low retention and no lacing.

S - The nose displays the classic hefe aromas of yeast and banana with bubblegum as well as a wheaty background but does so with little panache. It's got the right components, just shows little complexities.

T - The flavor also exhibits the classic here notes but does so even more poorly than the nose. The mouth is riddled with grainy wheat that's kind of wet in flavor - not very good and muted banana, yeast, and bubblegum. It's not bad, but it's a poor example of what a hefe could be. Citrusy finish too.

M - Light-bodied and crisp with a moderately dry finish and a really low hint at spiciness that dances on the tongue.

D - While it's a bad hefe example it doesn't rule out it's drinakbility. I'd still take one on a hot summer day but definitely would never seek it out again. Just plain and lacking complexity for a hefe.

Serving type: bottle

10-20-2009 02:46:34 | More by BeerFMAndy