Best Of Beer Camp: Weizenbock - Beer Camp #37
Big thanks go to Kegatron for gifting me with all 4 of these "best of beer camp" brews. Standard stubby 12oz SN brown bottle poured into a standard pint glass. This brew appears a clouded deep orange to light brown coloration. The cap appears more than a finger strong, thick and creamy and slightly off-white. It is composed of rather large bubbles and has pretty solid retention. Patches of lace cling to the glass with every sip. The aroma right out the bottle is initially a little green and yeasty with some chlorinated and sulfuric qualities that were not all that enjoyable and distracting. As it opens up, it displays a deep fruited quality mixed with a spicy scent of cloves and faint banana notes. The fruited quality is a bit sharp almost lemony and citrus-like. More smells of the brew reveal some of the previously described sulfuric quality mingling behind the pleasant notes of this brew's nose. The smell of this brew is a perfect example of how a brew can evolve the longer it rests inside your glass and you give it time. The taste is sharp and crisp for the style. A citrus fruit quality is present that blends into the thick maltiness and more fruited quality of this brew. Suggestions of banana and mild peppery notes are throughout mixed with a spiciness of clove. This brew really lets the malt play through the background and totally focus on the yeast and alcohol characteristics. It is well balanced and quite enjoyable. The more sips I take, the more it warms up to me and I enjoy it. This is a medium to full bodied brew with a very prickly feel to the modest level of carbonation. It is hearty and warming for the style. The nearly 7% abv is not hidden at all in both flavor and warming factor down the back of the throat. This is a fairly solid representation of the style and I enjoyed it more than my reviewing score would lead you to believe. It is worth a try.