Hacker-Pschorr Hefe Weisse Natürtrub - Hacker-Pschorr Bräu GmbH

ultralarry2006

Illinois

5/5  rDev +22.2%
look: 5 | smell: 5 | taste: 5 | feel: 5 | overall: 5

Poured from a 12 oz. bottle. Left less than a one finger head with good retention, not much lacing. Body was a very cloudy yellow orange.

Smell - spices; coriander and cloves, wheaty malt. Esters, bananas.

Taste - like the smell - coriander, cloves, creamy wheaty malt, bananas. All very well balanced. Aftertaste of cloves and coriander.

Mouthfeel - full, smooth, a little chewy, a little creamy.

Drinkability - this is good, goes down well, and is very sessionable.

Serving type: bottle

06-19-2006 22:16:27 | More by ultralarry2006

SchaefMan

Illinois

5/5  rDev +22.2%
look: 5 | smell: 5 | taste: 5 | feel: 5 | overall: 5

I could drink this beer all day. I have had it on tap, with a lemon wedge, and that is great, but mostly, I can only get it in a bottle.

The head is thick, and eventually desolves to a lace. The appearance is dark amber, and sort of cloudy.

The smell and taste have a light hint of citrus, and a spice that I can't peg, since I am new to describing beer taste.

I normally serve it in a tall weiss beer glass, at room temp. On a hot day, maybe cool it for awhile, and it really hits the spot.

Serving type: bottle

10-07-2006 03:02:02 | More by SchaefMan

nocheinsbitte

North Carolina

5/5  rDev +22.2%
look: 5 | smell: 5 | taste: 5 | feel: 5 | overall: 5

I'm going to start my review with a disclaimer--this is my favorite beer, period. If I had one last beer to drink before I went to the grand bier stube in the sky, it would be this one.
Appearance: When poured correctly, this beer looks magnificent in the glass. Topping off the head with the remainder of the bottle makes this beer a real treat. The color is a typical hefe yellow-gold and the cloudiness of the yeast masks the mystery of the taste inside. The thick head stays for a long time, so get used to drinking the beer through the head, you'll have to wipe your upper lip often.
Smell: The aroma is very welcoming, never bitter or skunky. A little fruity, but understated, not like a lambic or some of the other fruity beers.
Taste: As I stated earlier, this is the best bier in the world (my opinion). It is refreshing, fruity (not much), and very satisfying. No bitter after taste, leaves you refreshed and ready for more.
Mouthfeel: Again, no problems here.
Drinkability: The problem with this bier is that I can keep drinking it--over and over and over.

Serving type: on-tap

02-10-2008 18:22:56 | More by nocheinsbitte

earshplitten

Illinois

5/5  rDev +22.2%
look: 5 | smell: 5 | taste: 5 | feel: 5 | overall: 5

Liquid bread. Absolutely delicious.
Also had it on tap. Also very good, but the 500 ml. bottles are the best. Must be served in a proper, what I call, a weiss beer glass, tall and tapered that can accommodate the full 500 mls. It is somewhat of a acquired taste, but once acquired, it's tough to beat. Already smacking my lips!

Serving type: bottle

06-08-2009 22:19:51 | More by earshplitten

bbluemzbeer

California

5/5  rDev +22.2%
look: 5 | smell: 5 | taste: 5 | feel: 5 | overall: 5

The first time , I bought this beer at a local liquor store it was horrible. I should of look at beer date before I bought it. It was old beer. The second time I taste it on tap it taste like a world class beer.

Appreance: hazy pale orange a white head

Smell: Aroma is a typical wheat beer.

Taste: It has great depth with spices of clove and coriander with the sweet lemons. It is very smooth and balanced malts and mild hop influence without over doing it.

Mouthfeel : Light side to medium bodied with a good, smooth, creamy feel to it. It is Awesome!

Overall: World class beer! Try it on tap do not buy old bottle at local liquor store.

Serving type: bottle

06-05-2013 14:39:13 | More by bbluemzbeer

MisterClean

California

4.97/5  rDev +21.5%
look: 4.5 | smell: 5 | taste: 5 | feel: 5 | overall: 5

From Total wine

A - Pours golden-yellow, lots of head, dissipates slow.

S - Honey, bananas, cloves, and malts.

T - Same as smell.

M - So good. Light hops balance the taste. Hops not bitter though.

D - Best hefeweisse I've drank. So delicious, will need to pick up more.

Serving type: bottle

08-18-2008 06:00:37 | More by MisterClean

SaunaKing

Ontario (Canada)

4.95/5  rDev +21%
look: 5 | smell: 5 | taste: 5 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 5

Awesome beer. Nice smell, great taste and goes down unbelievably well.
Pours a hazy golden color with a massive head that eventually settles down without much lacing. Smell is AMAZING - spices and bannana. The smell is nice but difficult to pick up, especially after the first sip. Taste is of bananas but that doesnt do it justice - just tastes awesome - kind of how a banana popsicle tastes way better than a banana.
Great mouthfeel, beer is super smooth with a nice aftertaste and the drinkability is through the roof.
Just a great allround beer.

Serving type: bottle

09-04-2004 02:04:38 | More by SaunaKing

nategp

Texas

4.95/5  rDev +21%
look: 5 | smell: 5 | taste: 5 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 5

Poured from a bottle into my Ayinger Weizen glass.

Appearance: Very cloudy orange color with a nice head that slowly dissipates with lots of sticky lacing.

Smell: Banana, cloves, wheat, heaven.

Taste: You get it all: banana, wheat malt, cloves, slight lemon, a little pepper.

Feel: Lots of carbonation with a nice creamy mouthfeel that coats your mouth and sticks around for a while

Drinkability: This is so tasty and and easy to drink. I can drink a six pack before I know what has happened.

Serving type: bottle

05-22-2010 02:20:18 | More by nategp

4.93/5  rDev +20.5%
look: 4.5 | smell: 5 | taste: 5 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 5

Poured a cloudy golden color with plenty of lacing head.

Smelled of citrus and spice. The smell is what I believe attracted me to this beer. It make the taste outstanding.

You can tast the spice and a hint of citrus flavor. This is a beer with more malt and has a hint of sweetness.

It has a bit of coabonation and is so smooth and easy to drink.

This is an easy beer to drink any season. It's pleasing aroma helps make it a delicious beer to share during happy hour or over a meal.

Serving type: bottle

09-26-2008 22:13:42 | More by

dsa7783

New Jersey

4.9/5  rDev +19.8%
look: 5 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 5 | feel: 5 | overall: 5

This is a really great example of an outstanding hefe... I truly enjoyed this one and wouldn't mind drinking this all the time... A peppery, lemony taste predominates this wheat brew which goes down real smooth and is very satisfying. A faint aroma of banana and coriander is present, and a nice complex flavor is certainly there... Would definitely buy another sixer without a doubt... As a big fan of this particular style, this is truly up there with some of the best... I look forward to drinking one of these after a hard day at work...

Serving type: bottle

11-14-2007 00:17:24 | More by dsa7783

Grunewald

British Columbia (Canada)

4.9/5  rDev +19.8%
look: 5 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 5 | feel: 5 | overall: 5

A - soft amber that glows in the glass, soapy head

S - very light citrus hints (pineapple, orange), subtle banana

T - spicy and citrusy at first, banana hits soon after, metallic fiinish

M - nice crisp carbonation, exceedingly smooth

D - I could drink these all day

This is my favorite session beer. Definitely in my top 3 overall.

Serving type: bottle

06-14-2009 04:39:24 | More by Grunewald

Morris729

Texas

4.88/5  rDev +19.3%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 5 | feel: 5 | overall: 5

Pours a hazy deep golden color with a massive foamy and creamy white head that coats the sides of the glass while drinking. Nose is sweet overripe banana with a touch of clove. Thick and full in the mouth (especially for the style). Taste is very fruity with notes of juicy banana and spice and a bit of a yeasty maltiness. I could drink these all day and all night long with no problem. A truly outstanding brew.

Serving type: bottle

01-13-2003 14:20:26 | More by Morris729

ngandhi

Illinois

4.85/5  rDev +18.6%
look: 4 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 5 | feel: 5 | overall: 5

My multiple run-ins with Hacker Pschorr on-tap, climaxing last night at the Cowboy Monkey bar in Champaign, IL, warrant a new review.

We are fortunate to have this in bottles to enjoy at home, but HP is another world on tap. Little head retention, lacing down the glass, but more than enough. You're not going to get a Guinness-style head on this beer nor should you have one; it is so thick and rich with yeast that you don't need anything on top. Bright amber and white in color -- uniformly, deliriously cloudy. Bartenders: Quit with that lemon.

Still very estery, but with a pronounced gumball beginning -- incredible depth that is perhaps the pinnacle of hefe-weiss brewing. Delicate spices of clove and coriander seed marry brilliantly with the sweet lemons. Very smooth and balanced malts expertly balance the mild hop influence without overpowering it.

The result is satin. One of the most pleasurable (and endless) drinking experiences anywhere in the world. Hail to the king.

Relax, relax.
ng

Serving type: on-tap

08-13-2003 18:46:46 | More by ngandhi

BeerskiBrewski61

Tennessee

4.85/5  rDev +18.6%
look: 5 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 5 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 5

Hacker-Pschorr on tap cannot be beat. If you go to a tavern where Hacker-Pschorr is on tap, DO NOT PASS IT UP !!! The color is superb, the smell goes great along with the lemon wedge, tastes wonderful, by the time the glass falls to the bar; it's time to say, "bartender; another Hacker-Pschorr Hefe Weissen !!!
This is truly the "Nectar of the Gods".

Serving type: on-tap

07-31-2009 21:25:38 | More by BeerskiBrewski61

49degrees

British Columbia (Canada)

4.83/5  rDev +18.1%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 5 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 5

This is an exceptional wheat beer that should easily rank amongst the top Hefeweizen styled brews in the world.

A textbook classic, featuring a cloudy copper toned appearance that allows for a giant foamy (bubble bath style) head to fill the glass. Head takes a considerable amount of time to dissipate and leaves extensive lacing around the glass. (Be sure to drink this one from a traditional Weissbier styled glass for full enjoyment).

Super flowery aroma jam packed with the strength of its wheat base plus hints of citrus fruits, clove and a complex selection of malts.

All of the aromas come through in the taste of this beer with complexities of its fruity palette shining through. A beer with great characteristics and with an extremely consistent behavior from the first sip to the very last drop. Enjoy it in good health.

(NOTE: Based on a 500ml bottle sold under the HEFE WEISSE name in Canada. After much digging on the Internet it would appear that although the beer is often sold throughout the world as either WEISSE and HEFE WEISSE, the brew is supposedly the same thing despite packaging differences and the apparent availability of both versions at the same time from the same retailer.)

Serving type: bottle

01-11-2003 17:52:20 | More by 49degrees

marburg

Michigan

4.83/5  rDev +18.1%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 5 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 5

(I've marked this as "on-tap" since that's what my most recent tasting of it was -- though I regularly have it in bottles as well)

It's got a great looking head, so when it's served in the proper glass, it's truly beautiful. I had this most recently served in a Hacker Brau glass with a neat spiral look to the glass...the head was just popping up over the lip of the glass a tiny bit. Just looked great with the light reflecting off the angles in the glass and through the beer's cloudiness.

A lot of people find the sweetness and carbonation of wheat beers like this to be difficult to handle in mass quantities. However, my drinking buddies and I would regularly get a 3L boot of this to pass around the circle and drink it down like a champ. It may seem wasteful to quaff such a fine beer in such a manner. But I relay this story only to emphasize one thing: I can drink this beer over and over and over and over. It's a staple of my drinking and beer purchasing and is, for me, one of the beers I'll regularly by as a 6 pack to go watch football with a friend or something. It's just so easy to drink...

...and so incredibly tasty! Standard zesty wheat beer flavors. Drinking it, especially after you haven't had it in a while, is like dancing through lemon tree groves. One of my favorite wheat beers.

Serving type: on-tap

02-05-2003 16:56:42 | More by marburg

ceaser

Minnesota

4.83/5  rDev +18.1%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 5 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 5

I liked this beer alot. I'm sure the Hacker-Pschorr I bought was labeled 'dark' and it was nice and thick. Went down easy and I was able to drink quite a bit in a short time. Taste & drinkability I suppose were the best qualities but it seems like any good beer should have those be its highest points. Definately pick some of this up if you find it at the store.

Serving type: bottle

09-10-2004 17:51:17 | More by ceaser

emilystrange1

California

4.83/5  rDev +18.1%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 5 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 5

This beer was enjoyable because the fruity taste was not overwhelming at all but does leave you with a hint of banana. Tastes much better from a glass than a bottle, obviously, or else you can't enjoy the beautiful golden color or the tasty yeast at the bottom of the bottle.

Serving type: bottle

09-22-2005 07:46:47 | More by emilystrange1

Longstaff

Massachusetts

4.8/5  rDev +17.4%
look: 5 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 5 | feel: 5 | overall: 4.5

Except for the Weihenstephen I had on tap at the Heidelberg in NYC, this is my favorite wheat beer. It has an awesome orange glow and a head that is impossible to keep in the glass. It has somewhat subdued banana aroma and flavor but the clove flavor and aroma is right on the money. Somewhat sweeter, bigger malt base, and less carbonation than Paulaner make this much more drinkable. It has a creamy mouthfeel, vanilla flavors and a very long finish. If you are a fan of Paulaner, try one of these and you might be converted to the better weisse made by the same company.

Serving type: bottle

11-18-2002 12:58:38 | More by Longstaff

kmpitz2

Tennessee

4.8/5  rDev +17.4%
look: 4 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 5 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 5

Being a big hefe fan, I'm excited about this review. I used a nice 0.5l weizen glass for this beer. It poured a nice hazy straw color. It was not quite as cloudy as I would have liked, but its not that important. The nose is more lemony that I would like. There is also a underlying banana fragrance present, which I expect from a hefe. As I let the beer warm, the lemon subsides and the banana comes through more, as I would like it to. The flavor is full on banana. Its creamy and just good. I like the flavor of this beer. The mouthfeel is right where it should be...moderately thick to thick and nicely creamy. For a hefe, this is highly drinkable. I could sit down and have a nice long session wih it, but I could also sit down to one and feel content with that. Just a good beer all around.

Serving type: bottle

08-12-2004 04:02:37 | More by kmpitz2

STEELERFAN2390

Florida

4.79/5  rDev +17.1%
look: 5 | smell: 4.75 | taste: 4.75 | feel: 5 | overall: 4.75

This hefe is second only to weihenstephaner which is saying a lot!
A bit more malted flavors and less of the clove spice makes it pretty interesting ...the first time i enjoyed this beer I had purchased it in a grocery store in upstate New York for 7$ a sizer,now I pay about 11$ for it in fla ,it's well worth it.
Outstanding stuff! Prost!

Serving type: bottle

05-30-2013 02:33:15 | More by STEELERFAN2390

WeezyBoPeep

Florida

4.75/5  rDev +16.1%
look: 5 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 5 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.5

What an unexpected surprise this one was. Poured from a bottle into an Allagash tulip glass.

A: Gorgeous cloudy gold with amber hues. A big, off-white creamy head.

S: Malt, wheat, toasted bananas, apple juice and a faint note of fresh orange peel. Smells complex.

T: Starts out with lemons and finishes with apples. In between we have lots of wheat, toasted bananas and citrus. A light alcohol burn in the finish produces an almost "numbness" in the back of the mouth.

D: A beer you sip and enjoy. For an entire evening.

Value: Excellent. I picked up a six pack for $8.99. This beer is on par with Belgians that cost twice that. Go Germany!

Serving type: bottle

01-06-2010 17:40:14 | More by WeezyBoPeep

pootz

Ontario (Canada)

4.72/5  rDev +15.4%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4 | taste: 5 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 5

Comes in a 1/2 liter long neck crown top with best before code and a lush label with some dickens-era geek on it.

When the crown was cracked, a noticeable whoosh of natural CO2 escapes

The pour produces a delicious looking murky orange-gold liquid capped with a tall frothy cap that lasts as a lace and ring. Noticeable streaking of effervescence and yeast.. very active in the glass.

Odors of fruitsm vanilla and spice and sweet malt...nice !

Starts peppery with bottle-conditioned natural effervescence bombarding the palate then mellows on the palate with a pleasant departure of malt mingling with the clove-banana-vanilla tastes...then the finish on this one is glorious...you get a spiced caramel-biscuit taste then a lingering prickly dryness from the wheat and grassy hops...lustrous!

This could become a favorite summer ale for me I like the pronounced hefeweiss charater better than the moderate Paulaner Heffe-weisse but the margin is pretty thin....both are fine yeasted wheat ales.

Serving type: bottle

03-22-2004 23:45:13 | More by pootz

UGADawgGuy

Georgia

4.72/5  rDev +15.4%
look: 4 | smell: 5 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 5 | overall: 5

Poured from a 12-ounce bottle into my 22-ounce weissbier glass.

Appearance: A good weizen pour (i.e., a careful pour, leaving a little beer in the bottle to dislodge the tasty yeast, followed by a quick "dump" into the glass) yields a hazy, dark golden liquid with a light, quickly dissipating two-finger head.

Smell: Excellent. This stuff smells a lot like Weihenstephaner Hefeweissbier (the gold standard for the style, in my opinion), only the Hacker-Pschorr is marginally sweeter. I smell yeasty bread, with more than a hint of mild bananas and sugar.

Taste: As should be the case, the taste follows the nose. Bready, vaguely sweet, and thoroughly satisfying. This stuff avoids the weird tartness present in some wheat beers, as well as the metallic flavor found in some others. Hops are not evident, which is exactly how it should be with a hefeweizen.

Mouthfeel: Moderate-to-high carbonation and the ice-cold serving temperature produce a very refreshing drink. The low ABV doesn't hurt, either, in that regard. Very, very good wheat beer -- light in the mouth, but substantial enough to distinguish itself from your average translucent lager or ale.

Drinkability: Again, the low ABV yields a wonderfully drinkable beer. Fantastic. This is my second-favorite beer in my favorite style, and that's saying something. I only wish I had easy access to it -- Hacker-Pschorr hasn't made it into Georgia yet! Anyway, the only non-bock/non-dark wheat beer that beats this one, for me, is Weihenstephaner Hefeweissbier. Truth be told, though, this one is awfully similar to that masterpiece in many respects. Highly recommended.

Serving type: bottle

01-20-2009 05:05:33 | More by UGADawgGuy

Nascartailgatefa

New York

4.72/5  rDev +15.4%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 5 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.5

Bottle poured into a Pilsner glass. Color is a very cloudy pale gold color. Thick abundant head which lingers, minor lacing. Aroma has a hint of banana. Taste is very smooth and pleasant. No tartness and no bitterness. A new favorite. Excellent drinkability.

Serving type: bottle

02-08-2009 17:18:54 | More by Nascartailgatefa