Saturday, September 8, 2007

Hacker-Pschorr Weisse: 20

Taste: 6 Finish: 6 Visual: 5 Aroma: 3
Total: 20

I've always considered Hacker-Pschorr Weisse one of the best wheat beers. This is probably because my father would order one on rare occasion and savor it. After trying the very good Paulaner wheat beer, let's see if Hacker-Pschorr ups the ante.

It pours with an enormous head which is creamy and dissipates slowly. The color is a chalky, cloudy, and milky golden. Perfect. It has a slightly sweet aroma of baked bread.

Do you remember the taste of a top notch white bread fresh from the oven? Yeasty, soft, sweet. That's what this beer is like. You almost want to chew it. It has very nice undertones of citrus, mostly lemon. It finishes sweetly and cleanly.

Even though this is a very pleasant taste, I could use a bit more. The flavors are muted a bit. But, you could drink 2 or 3 before you realized what you did. A very nice beer, just not a great beer.

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