DB Weizen

[denimglen]

1.046, 1.014, 13IBU

60% Wheat
40% Pils

Tett

WLP300

45/66/76 Double decoction.

Would love to hear any criticism anyone's got.

Cheers,


Glen.

[JoKing]

Here's my criticism

DB.

Consider your weizen boycotted.

[denimglen]

Cheers, I didn't think you were in the swap anyways :-P

[studio1]

Delicious. Just cracked as my first from the case swap. Seems quite dry on the finish ...but I'm not good at describing mouthfeel. A bit spicy - is that the Tett I guess?

[denimglen]

Cheers :-) Possibly, probably a mix of that and the WLP300 for the spicyness.

[JoKing]

I love that new Avater you have there Glen - consider the DB boycott over!!!

[denimglen]

Haha, that was what I used for the labels on the case swap bottles. On a side note they should come off pretty easily with a warm water soak for anyone wanting to reuse the bottles.

[studio1]

Glen - there is one problem. I've just finished my bottle and there's no more!

[Reviled]

Onto the next one then Garrick? ;o)

[studio1]

yeah, gonna try and punch one through in the 15min I have before going out.

[Mike Neilson]

Pours a muddy hazed straw yellow, I look deep into the pint and I see ludwig the 1st telling me it a 'wiess what are you doing drink it!!!!' Its highly carbed and thats what i expect, 1 quick smell followed by a swill, I roll it around my mouth and I get a banana nose a zing from the wheat banana again and a very dry finish.... Thats it what else do you expect from a wheat???? clove? yeah a hint but not much, well to me anyway.

Criticism???? Munich would be spot on right now for the beer, but when you brewed it I think Pils was the Business.

Its a basic beer on paper but to nail it is something else, light fruity and highly drinkable!!

[Stu McKinlay]

Pours a murky 'milky' yellow with a blink-and-you'll-miss-it white head and a very light lace. Subtle nose - a little spice, herb, lemon zest, wheat, faintest hint of banana that becomes a little more prominent as it warms. Beautifully tart, well-attenuated and crisply carbonated in the mouth. It's hard to believe that this could have finished at 1.014. Spicy tart wheat sums it up perfectly. Delightfully easy to drink, a great summer beer (good in autumn too) and it has almost inspired me to launch into my longtime dream of building myself a great Berliner Weiss for next summer.

I like the subtlety of this beer. Sure it could probably do well with a little more in the ester department - certainly if you were trying to win an award with it - but I really do like it 'as is'. I often find hefeweizens to be all full of fruit and spice on the nose and a little flabby in the body, like a teenage girlfriend,... this is the opposite.

Very nice beer. Actually... as I pour my second glass, and the head rises up like a big fluffy meringue, it makes me wonder if I'll find a beer in this case swap that I think hits the mark quite like this. There's a time and place for all beer styles... a warm Wellington Sunday autumnal afternoon is the right time and place for this weizen.

[denimglen]

Cheers, thanks all.

Yeah, I think the head retention was a little weak cause of that rest at 45 maybe the decoction too. My last batch at 50-50 pils-wheat was much better and was just a single infusion. Also that rest at 45 changes the ester profile heaps I reckon. Last batch was much more typical hefe ester profile. I'd definitely go single infusion next time, I really don't think the decoction added that much.

You're not wrong Mike, some Munich, or even melanoiden maybe wouldn't go a-miss.