100 Beers, 100 Days: Day #18
Tucher Hefeweizen is a rather standard German hefeweizen. It pours a cloudy straw color with a gigantic foamy head that sticks around for quite a while. I made sure to swirl the bottle to get that last bit of yeasty goodness when pouring it into my hefeweizen glass. The smell is typical German wheat beer, too - no detectable hops, fruity, a hint of the wheat and yeast to come. Tasting it, I got minimal amounts of the flavors you would typically expect. There was little in the way of banana or clove and only a bit of yeast flavor. I also noticed a high degree of carbonation in the beer. The aftertaste didn’t do all that much for me either.
Bottom line, this was a refreshing but uncomplicated wheat beer. I’d love to get more yeast out of it. And I’d love to really get a good banana flavor, but there was little to be had. So I might pick up one of these again in the future, but I’d reach for a Paulaner (or homebrew) first. The dunkelweizen is probably worth trying out.