Widmer – Hefeweizen
Ahh Hefeweizen; sweet, often delicious, unfiltered wheat beer...
So I was picking up a 30 rack of some cheap domestic pee in a can the other day (not for me, I promise!) and I thought I may as well get something I haven't had before to keep this whole blog thing going. As you may have surmised by the title of this post, today's beer will be a hefeweizen by Widmer.
This is my first introduction to Widmer Brothers beers and I have to say, I'm a little underwhelmed. This one smells a bit on the yeasty side of things but still has the slight hint of the sweetness I often associate with wheat beers. The murky amber coloring promises a beer full of flavor and beckons me to drink deeply of it's rich flavors... Don't let these things fool you though! Any pleasantries in this experience stop short of taste. It may be my allergies, but I honestly can't really taste much of anything in here. I mean I'm aware that I'm drinking something which appears to be beer, but it tastes more like tainted water from a village well. Really, thats it. I mean its not terrible, it probably doesn't have plague, and I'd much rather play a round of pong with this in my cup as opposed to the usual suspects, though since its only sold in 6 packs I don't think its gonna fly for that.
My advice to the Widmere Bros: New marketing campaign and packaging aimed at making Widmere Hefeweizen the new beer of choice for beirut/pong tournaments.
So for this future tournament accesory, I'll give it a halfway respectable 4