Saturday 21 January 2012

Beer #21 - Hacker-Pschorr Weisse

Hacker-Pschorr Weisse
www.hacker-pschorr.de

This German brewer, the Hacker-Pschorr Brewery traces its roots to 1417 as the Hacker Brewery, 99 years before the enactment of the Reinheitsgebot, or the Bavarian Purity Law of 1516.  In the 18th Century the owner founded the Pschorr Brewery, both breweries were merged in 1972.  This beer, Hacker-Pschorr Weisse, is their best selling beer.

This wheat beer has a nice golden colour with a thick white foamy head made up of very tiny bubbles.

It has a very clean aroma of hops with a fruity-wine like undertone.

It starts with the maltiness of the wheat, with the hops coming in along with the wine-like undertones, with all the flavours fading away leaving a clean finish.

It drinks with a thickness and silkiness leaving a clean, crisp and refreshing finish.

Overall this is a great wheat beer.  Very refreshing and would be great on a warm summer day with barbeque, or just on the deck.

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