Schneider Weisse Tap 5 Schneider & Brooklyner Hopfen-Weisse - Weisses Bräuhaus G. Schneider & Sohn GmbH

StaveHooks

Oklahoma

3.98/5  rDev -2.2%
look: 3.5 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4

Review from notes:
500 ml served into a Weizen glass

A – Cloudy burnt orange, lots of sediment, with a 2 finger white head that clings to the glass leaving sheets of lacing.

S – Peach puree, mango, clove, sweet malt, honey, banana, just a barrage of rich fruit aromas.

T – Big dose of fruity wheat. tangy banana, peaches, lemons, citrus meld with a sweet pilsner malt. Citrus and floral hops stick to the tongue on the finish.

M – Rich and creamy feel, full bodied.

Big yeast presence and just the right amount of hops. Very soft feel and delicious. Zero alcohol presence. Great summertime beer.

Serving type: bottle

10-04-2012 20:39:52 | More by StaveHooks

RickS95

Indiana

3/5  rDev -26.3%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4 | taste: 2.5 | feel: 2.5 | overall: 3

Pours a very cloudy, hazy, milky golden yellow. The beer is just full of haze and yumminess. The head is thick and slightly dirty white. Large bubbles on the perimeter and foamy, small bubbles in the center. Good retention, not much lace.

Fruity banana, cloves, bubble gum. Lemon and honey in the background.

While I enjoy a high ABV beer as much as the next guy, I don't want the beer to taste like alcohol. This one does. While it doesn't burn your tongue or throat, it's a very forward, aggressive alcohol flavor that takes away from the other yummy ingredients. Lemon, faint banana, and bubble gum take care of the taste buds the alcohol doesn't.

Early on it's smooth and creamy and a bit sweet. Then the alcohol wipes that clean and gives a grainy alcohol feel til the swallow. Medium bodied. Kind of a dryish, hot finish.

Overall it's very disappoinging. I've had the other collaboration from these brewers and it was excellent. This isn't. Tastes only slightly different than straight alcohol. I'm pleased with the 8.2% ABV, I just don't want to taste it. Almost tastes like a mixed drink.

Serving type: bottle

09-21-2012 02:33:11 | More by RickS95

Dave1999

Virginia

4.15/5  rDev +2%
look: 4 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4

Poured a cloudy yellow/brown with no head to speak of.

The smell was powerful, lemons, oranges, banana, cloves and bubble gum.

The taste was sweet and yeasty with a little alcohol and a little hop presence but not bitter.

The mouth feel was smooth and creamy, medium bodied with medium carbonation.

Overall this was a very good weisse beer, not my favourite style but this is probably my favourite weisse to date.

Serving type: bottle

08-31-2012 13:32:36 | More by Dave1999

chinchill

South Carolina

4.28/5  rDev +5.2%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.5

Schneider Weisse TAP5 Meine Hopfenweisse 8.2%
"heller Weizendoppelbock mit besonderer Hopfennote"

.5l on tap and served in a S.Weisse tulip glass at Weisses Bräuhaus in central Munich.

A: cloudy apple and orange juice mix with a well proportioned near white head. Excellent sticky lacing and very good retention.

The aroma is remarkably hoppy ...f or a European beer. There is a clear weisse beer base with a strong hop presence: a hop component like an Amer. IPA. Lots of orange in the nose!
The flavor is a bit different, with much less hop presence than in the nose. It is a bit more sweet than bitter, even in the finish. Still a strong citrus flavor; mainly orange. Yeasty too. A complex mix of diverse flavors that are really well integrated.

M: exceptionally smooth. No harshness whatsoever. Medium body.

O: a really exceptional beer worth seeking out. [4.25] The best weisse beer I've ever had. Despite the very hoppy aroma, this beer should be drinkable even for many who are not so fond of hop flavor or bitter beers.

Serving type: on-tap

08-30-2012 22:50:34 | More by chinchill

AdamBear

Pennsylvania

4/5  rDev -1.7%
look: 4 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.5

A-cloudy dark gold with a thin white head

S-smells like wonderful hoppy wheats. The wheats smell new Belgian than anything. Bit of banana. This smells awesome. 

T-well this is just an odd beer. A lot going on here. Comes in with a creamy and aged taste of oranges  and white wheats. the after-taste a really solid flavor of hops with out the bitterness. 

M-medium creamy carbonation with a creamy finish

O-it's an okay beer. Has a lot of complexity to it. It just doesn't seem to flow extremely well. it's not the easiest drinker either.

Serving type: bottle

08-17-2012 03:47:25 | More by AdamBear

LiquidAmber

Washington

4.05/5  rDev -0.5%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 4

Review from 9/2010 notes. Poured into a Celebrator Pokal. Pours a cloudy orange amber. One finger white head with decent retention. Pineapple hop, wheat and stone fruit aroma. Wheat, stone fruit with pineapple/citrus hops. Clove in the middle and finish. Very interesting, a weissen crossed with an mild IPA. I like it.

Serving type: bottle

08-01-2012 23:53:31 | More by LiquidAmber

OtherShoe2

Massachusetts

4.1/5  rDev +0.7%
look: 4 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4

Pours hazy cloudy deep gold/orangy color. No lace, decent retention of head.

Nice peach nectar and honeyed malt aromas with a kiss of booze.

This one is nice, and get better as it warms. Some good toasted wheat and grain sweetness up front, some booze, some citric notes. Dead cold out of the fridge this has some harshness, but as it warms, fruit comes up a touch, as does some spice. Still, has a decent bitter pucker at the end, and is fairly clean in the finish. Nice job.

Medium and carbonated.

Nice alternative and style attempt. Works well. Will have again.

Serving type: bottle

07-22-2012 02:06:28 | More by OtherShoe2

sebod89

Connecticut

4.98/5  rDev +22.4%
look: 4.5 | smell: 5 | taste: 5 | feel: 5 | overall: 5

Went to this brewery and had it in their beer garden and it was the most interesting beer ive ever had. The citrus aroma blending with the banana and clove yeast by-products produces and absolutely splendid beer. Granted I had this right from the brewery and its always the best there, I also had it in the U.S. and it was almost as good. Still had all the notes that I remembered.

Serving type: bottle

07-21-2012 23:27:49 | More by sebod89

goatuscrow

Germany

4.85/5  rDev +19.2%
look: 5 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 5 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 5

I buy this beer regularly since I live in Germany and the beer is sold in the half liter bottles which are standard German fare.

This beer is bottle fermented and the yeast is in the bottle, if you roll the bottle before you open it, it will dispense the yeast into the beer. This makes for a very cloudy beer with larger than usual pieces of yeast floating around.

I don't smell beer very often, but this beer smells like grain with a hint of lemon/ citrus.

The taste of this beer is unusual in that it's the first hoppy beer made in Germany that I have tasted.It is a wonderful beer for the hot summer months and very refreshing as well as intoxicating.

The carbonation is medium to low and feels very natural.

I love beer and this is the pinnacle of beer making to this point for me.

Serving type: bottle

07-20-2012 06:30:15 | More by goatuscrow

Rijtjeshuis

Ontario (Canada)

4.4/5  rDev +8.1%
look: 3.5 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.5

Looks (3.5/5) – Pours a rich gold with some nice orange colours to it. Head is decent: it rises a bit small on a hard pour; it’s texture is a bit soapy; it falls very slowly to a decent cap that really lasts and leaves little lacing. It is really ridiculously opaque, which makes it look a tad dark.

Smell (4.5/5) – The smell is a really great marriage of the hops and the yeast. The yeast is very citrusy, it has some lemon, but it’s pretty firmly in the grapefruit- range. That’s complemented really well by the banana notes of the weizen yeast. There’s also some light fruit notes like orange peel and pear that come through on the finish that are probably yeast (maybe spicing or hops). I notice that the clove yeast aroma is relatively minimal, which I think works for the style.

Taste (4.5/5) – Really nice; it actually reminds me a bit of the Dogfish Blood Orange Hefe. The malt character is fairly mild, but falls into a lightly sweet graininess and a bit of that distinctive wheat flavour a bit of crystal and/or biscuit. The hops are of the same, primarily grapefruit flavour. There’s some citrus and a very little bit of resin, but this is really about that one citrus flavour. That plays really well with the yeast, which is more complexly fruity than many hefeweizens; the banana plays really well with the grapefruit, adding a bit of softness to the harsher grapefruit flavour, but there is also a good assortment of other fruity notes (pear, peach, apricot, etc) with a bit of high-alcohol perfume in there. A high-medium hop bitterness carries through the end with the grapefruit flavour the really balance the sweetness.

Feel (4/5) – I think this one was like a really good hefeweizen in its feel. Light-Medium body and relatively good carbonation (actually a touch lower than usual here) mix with the mouth-coating hops and a slight hint of alcohol to make it feel something like whipped cream.

The balance of this brew is really something great. The new world hops with that grapefruit flavour meets really well with the hefeweizen yeast. I think this mix was especially good because that yeast – for whatever reason – seemed to have a bit less clove. Now, I love clove in my traditional hefeweizens, but this just played it so well. It’s rare that these beers pop up in the LCBO and I love it when they do.

Serving type: bottle

07-19-2012 02:29:06 | More by Rijtjeshuis

JohnnyBarman

Ontario (Canada)

4.2/5  rDev +3.2%
look: 3.5 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 4

500mL bottle from the LCBO. Poured into a hefeweizen glass.

My first observation with this beer is its murkyness, which I have to say places this brew as among the murkiest weizenbeers I have ever had, even for a weizenbock. A tan-peach concoction with about a half inch of head that recedes into a fine ring. Not the world's best looking brew, but this will become utterly irrelevant in a few moments.

The nose is exactly what I had predicted: a stellar combination of the wheat beer notes (wheat malt, banana, clove, herbal hops) and American hops, which give the brew a lovely citrus aroma (lemon and grapefruit).

Now this is a wheat beer whose extra hops make this truly greater than the sum of its parts. The soft wheat and banana notes are brought to the fore along with a tangy, citrussy blast of lemon and grapefruit, making for one refreshing brew indeed. Clove and herbal hops linger in the background. Medium bodied, slightly chewy.

A great summer brew that proves to be an excellent marriage of old and new styles of brewing. I will definitely be back for this brew many times over as the heat wave continues unabated...

Serving type: bottle

07-18-2012 20:50:58 | More by JohnnyBarman

thehyperduck

Ontario (Canada)

4.18/5  rDev +2.7%
look: 3.5 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.5

500 mL bottle from the LCBO; bottled in March 2012 if I am deciphering the packaging code correctly.

Pours a foggy golden-amber colour, with two fingers of smooth, frothy white head that erupts at the surface. Limited retention for a weisse; it only sticks around for a few minutes, leaving behind a collar of lace and an even white cap on the surface. Great aroma that combines a lot of my favourite traits from both hefes and IPAs. Lots of sweet, wheaty malts, banana, lemony citrus notes and tons of grassy, floral hops underlain by a mild clove spiciness. Surprisingly strong aroma - I'm a smoker and I could still smell this stuff across the room after opening it.

Impressive flavour; much like the aroma, it blends a lot of the best things about German wheat beers and American-style hoppy ales into a tasty whole. A backbone of sweet, wheaty malts and yeast provides a medium for the plethora of fruity flavours to display themselves - ranging from more orthodox weisse flavours like banana, through to pineapple, peach, lemon and orange citrus. Fruity, floral aftertaste with some lingering dryness. Full-bodied, slightly oily with some yeasty chew, and relatively mild carbonation for a really smooth mouthfeel. The 8.2% abv is nowhere to be seen.

Final Grade: 4.18, an A-. This is not the first bottle of Schneider Hopfen-Weisse I've sampled, and unless they stop making it, I sincerely doubt it will be the last. Even though I like both hefes and IPAs, I'd be lying if I said that I initially thought combining them sounded like a good idea. But this is just an unbelievably well-made beer that combines some of the best things about both styles. Worth a try for sure.

Serving type: bottle

07-17-2012 05:16:29 | More by thehyperduck

Dentist666

Russian Federation

4.28/5  rDev +5.2%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.5

Comnes under name "Schneider Meine Hopfenweisse Tap5". Pours cloudy amber beer with off-white head, leaving lots of laces. Heavenly aroma of cloves, banana, citrus and herbal hops. Full-bodied taste of hefeweizen with significant spirituous part. Magnificent complex characteristics!

Serving type: bottle

07-05-2012 14:30:18 | More by Dentist666

CAMRAhardliner

Ontario (Canada)

4.03/5  rDev -1%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4

Pours cloudy straw with a frothy head that lasts forever. Grassy hops and fruity malt and wheat notes make up the nose. The taste is like the lemon Froot Loops, sweet and mildy tart, with lychees and green melon hops also showing. Bubblegum and cloves show mildly in the background. The mouthfeel is full bodied and smoothly carbonated. Mild bitterness and a lot of herbal hop flavor make up the long finish.

This is a stellar, if un-conventional, Weizenbock. Lots of great noble hop flavors. A must try.

Serving type: bottle

07-04-2012 02:20:31 | More by CAMRAhardliner

peensteen

Ontario (Canada)

3.48/5  rDev -14.5%
look: 3 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5

Hazy peachy coloured body, quite a bit of floating matter in there as well, ring of white head and no lace to speak of. Smell is very hoppy, citrus and tropical fruits, a bit of some yeasty bread like scents but mostly sharp pineapple and citrus and some banana with a bit of alcohol. Taste is also quite hoppy with tart citrus fruits, tropical fruit and a bit of banana, grapefruit and orange flavours, spicy with quite a bit of sweet alcohol present as well, a little astringency. Light carbonation, medium body with a fairly full feel. This was just ok, a bit boozy for my liking and a bit too much sweet hop flavours, I finished both bottles I had but had higher hopes for this beer.

Serving type: bottle

07-03-2012 15:27:26 | More by peensteen

biboergosum

Alberta (Canada)

4.1/5  rDev +0.7%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.5

500ml bottle - nice to see the flip-side of last year's Brooklyner-Schneider offering at our remote metropolitan outpost.

This beer pours a cloudy, fine sediment-strewn, bright golden amber hue, with two fingers of tight frothy eggshell white head, which leaves some nice volcanic island atoll lace around the glass as it perfunctorily recedes.

It smells of tart orange citrus, unripe banana, cloves, grainy wheat, sassy white pepper, and further fruity, floral hops. The taste is softly sweet wheat malt, prominent fruitiness - orange, pineapple, lemon, and dry banana - soft lilting spice of the clove and red pepper sort, a simple earthy, leafy hoppiness (and agreeably bitter, for the style), with a wee speck of booze warming, barely a tingle, as it get closer to room temperature.

The carbonation is quite obviously a central character in this show, and the bottle fermentation a pivotal plot point - even with a less than standard initial CO2 send-off, the bubbles are quite soft and pleasant. This leads to a relatively unaccosted, smooth body, and a clean, grainy, hoppy, fruity, spicy, and subtly boozy finish - all agreeably entwined, I might add.

A deftly integrated hoppy, strong wheat beer, the result more tasty than I may have expected, especially given the presence (absence?) of the full-on Houdini treatment of the big alcohol component. Good stuff, and cheers/prost to the furtherance of this fruitful (and hopful) collaboration.

Serving type: bottle

06-28-2012 03:04:32 | More by biboergosum

UCLABrewN84

California

4.18/5  rDev +2.7%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 4.5

Bottled 2/7/12.

Pours a murky, turbid orange-brown with a 2 inch foamy bone colored head that settles to a thin cap on top of the beer. Foamy patches of lace form around the glass on the drink down. Smell is of wheat, grain, spices, slight hops, and lots of yeast aromas. There is also a bit of a soapy or chalky aroma that I am getting as well. Taste is of yeast, spice, and hops up front with the wheat/grain flavors coming through in the finish. The hop flavors are quite citrus-like and do not really contribute too much bitterness to take away from the overall beer. This beer has a lower level of carbonation with a slightly crisp mouthfeel. Overall, this is a really good beer and I quite enjoy the hopped up take on a hefeweizen.

Serving type: bottle

06-21-2012 03:44:35 | More by UCLABrewN84

jrenihan

Ontario (Canada)

4.1/5  rDev +0.7%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.5

Bottled March 16, 2012

Beer is a hazy, translucent golden with a moderately sized white head. Moderate retention. Minimal lacing.

Smell is full of fruit: banana, peach, pineapple, lemon, passionfruit. Honey, yeast, a sweet malty scent accompany, along with floral overtones. Traditional weisse scents with some hopping.

Taste is similar to the nose but with a twist. The banana, peach, pineapple and passionfruit is there, but with a bitter bite that was not noticeable in the nose. A sweet biscuity malt backs it up. Alcohol is noticeable.

Medium bodied, rather oily, moderate carbonation.

Overall, tasty and pretty distinctive. A fairly unique beer.

Serving type: bottle

05-29-2012 02:51:06 | More by jrenihan

t420o

California

4.2/5  rDev +3.2%
look: 4 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.5

Schneider Weisse Hopfen Weisse

A- big pop when opening. As I should have expected from the pop. Big on carbonation! Pour produces a huge 3.5 finger off white pillory head resting on a hazy deep straw colored body. Pretty good retention, decent lacing. 4 

S- damn this smells good! Clove, banana, spice, excellent yeast smell, a load of citrus (lemon, grapefruit, orange) some other tropical smells. I could sit here smelling this thing all day. 4.5 

T- the taste is supurb as well and pretty much follows the nose. The yeast and spice is center stage and excellent. This is followed by the citrusy hops and some banana, slight alcohol, there is also some apple and pear as well. Finishes dry. 4

M- good mouthfeel. Carbonation isn't as much as it looks. Good feel 4

O- an excellent beer and one of the best weizenbocks I have ever had the pleasure of having. I will definitely be getiing more of this. 4.5

A

Serving type: bottle

05-17-2012 23:23:15 | More by t420o

thecheapies

Pennsylvania

3.35/5  rDev -17.7%
look: 3 | smell: 4 | taste: 3 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5

I believe bottled June 14, 2010. Poured into the Schneider Weisse weizen glass.

A slew of floaties from the swirling job. An almost caramel-orange color with a finger of cream-colored head. 3.0

Soft caramel candy, red grapes, pound cake, clove, booze, wet cardboard, and medicinal phenols. Slight amyl acetate and buttery aroma. 4.0

Kind of boozy and definitely showing some oxidation. Caramel chew, earthy aged hops, Band-Aid, light buttercream, tart apple, cooking sherry, ethyl acetate, alcohol, pineapple, and mild banana. Not much toastiness to the grain, just a cereal wheat malt with a sweet/tart feel. Seemingly much past its prime. 3.0

Light syrup to the body with medium-light carbonation. A little too boozy. A little too sticky. 3.5

The potential was there in this one, but it's peaked and then some. Too many oxidized notes. Learned my lesson on this one. 3.5

Serving type: bottle

05-15-2012 20:05:38 | More by thecheapies

Tobe

4/5  rDev -1.7%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4

This beer poured a bright gold color with some haziness in the clarity. The head was a strong white foam which lead to some nice lacing as the glass was enjoyed. Once poured this beer showed hints of citrus, spiciness and banana with a light floral note from the hops. The flavor exploded upon first sip, definitely enjoyable orange, clove and fainter banana finishing with a pleasant spiciness.

Serving type: bottle

05-02-2012 14:26:02 | More by Tobe

soulfly1492

Pennsylvania

4/5  rDev -1.7%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4

Aroma: Bold aroma. Lots of esters, more peach than the usual banana and lemon. Lots of yeasty phenols, mild spice, but not much clove. Moderate European hop aroma. Lots of pilsner and Munich malts. Good aroma, but not the typical classic hefe aroma.

Appearance: Deep gold, somewhat clear with lots of small particles in suspension. Head pours a moderate height is pale white. Slight retention and good lacing.

Taste: Moderate hop flavor, hence "Hopfen-Weisse" on the label. Lots of sweet malt, some caramel and a good dose of wheat. Certainly some yeasty elements as seen in the aroma. Very mild clove. Hops are bitter citrus and pine.

Mouthfeel: Light to medium body. Slick and buttery. Finishes quite dry. Mild carbonation.

Overall: Nice hefe, although nowhere near a classic example. A bit heavy on the hops, but the flavor is pleasant.

Serving type: bottle

05-01-2012 01:31:39 | More by soulfly1492

jar2574

Missouri

3.4/5  rDev -16.5%
look: 4.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3 | overall: 3

Amazing smell, hops, honey, clover and flowers. Nice creamy white head, cloudy yellow/brown beer. Could use some better lacing on the sides.

Earthy, very earthy taste. Smooth wheat beer flavor. Average carbonation. Malty more than hoppy, contrary to the smell. A tiny touch of soapiness in the flavor as well. Starts strong with that great smell, but overall, I wasn't blown away by the finish.

Serving type: bottle

04-28-2012 19:59:10 | More by jar2574

at7000

Florida

4.48/5  rDev +10.1%
look: 4 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.5

You owe it to yourself to try this beer. One of the strangest, yet best beers, I have ever sampled. Nothing else quite like it, that I have ever tasted before. It's a special "hybrid brew" resulting form the friendship and collaboration of the Brooklyn Brewery brew-master, and the Schneider brew-master. The goal was to produce a "hop forward" hefeweizen.

This beer literally explodes the palette with cloves, hops, banana, citrus, and spice. It pours very cloudy indeed, as would be expected form a bottle fermented hefe. I'd say their experiment worked. I would definitely buy this beer again.

Serving type: bottle

04-14-2012 22:57:34 | More by at7000

Everydayoff

Thailand

4.13/5  rDev +1.5%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4

500ml bottle poured into a weizen glass by freshness date.

A:
Cloudy dark yellow honey color, massive rocky and silky light tan head with excellent retention, it gradually collapses to long lasting foamy layer cover on the top and leaves plenty of lacing patch and spot clinging all around. Carbonation seems to be actively high.

S:
Distinctive touch of pineapple mingles with other mellow esters reminiscent of ripe banana and berries, crackery malt poking through along with note of floral hop and some spice.

T:
Fruity sweetness covers the palate first reminding of pineapple, berries and banana bread. Hop reveals its trait of bitterness by delicately and firmly exhibiting from the middle to finish. A bit phenol and hint of alcohol ester yield the complex end that mix up with a steady bitterness, fruity ester and bready note. Hop bitterness is also last for long as an aftertaste.

M:
The body is medium to full, smooth mouth feel with good crisp and some lively carbonation.

O:
Wheatbock with delicious bitterness as leverage against its fruity sweet portion, good quaff ability, alcohol is deceivingly hidden.

Serving type: bottle

04-12-2012 04:11:31 | More by Everydayoff