Starting to wane a bit now, but still pretty good.

Not much of the noticeable weizen character still present.

Really changed over a month.

Has attuntated further and lost its sickly sweet taste. Also bitterness comes through more now ... much better.

lucas -
16. chris' red weizen - I love it. such a beautiful banana flavour with a little extra malt flavour than your average weizen. it's been quite a while since I did a wheat beer and I've never been about to get much banana in mine, but this beer really makes me want to look up your recipe and follow it precisely. must remember to get some rice hulls though, last wheat beer I did I managed to snap my wooden mash paddle trying to stir it

therook
16 - Chris Taylor - Red Weizen
Great beer Chris, one of the blokes at work said he would pay for this beer if he could buy it.
Lots of toffee and malt flavours which i think spoilt it a bit as it ended up being quite sweet,
Good carbonation . Nice mild banana and clove things happening.
A good beer Chris but you have done lot better :-)

Maple -
Chris Taylor - Big Red Banana - what more is there to say than that really. Huge banana, I really liked it, and that's exactly what I was aiming for in my last roggen attempt, but fell short of this... Interesting beer, malt wise, maybe a bit sweet, but not to the cloyingly side.

WarmBeer

16. Chris Taylor - Red Weizen

So smooth, so creamy. Perfect creamy head, and nothing but sweet yeasty smells.
Having never had this style before, I can't comment on the colour, but it's great to have a change from the usual dark-brown that the majority of this particular swap has brought. Bubbles are tiny, would love to know how you achieve this.
Now it's warmed up a little, it has lost the initial sweetness that lingered afterwards.
An eye-opener to a quite different style, thanks Chris.

mcook

16. Chris Taylor - Red Weizen : Really nice, banana aroma, with some cherry thrown in for good measure. Distinctive dunkel-weizen up front flavor without that overt weizen like wheat beer yeast and bready texture that can be often present (and IMO usually detracts from the other flavors). Not a hop-driven beer, nor should it be, I reckon there is more to be gained by playing around with the malt bill, as there is already that lovely yeast derived aroma and flavor which indicate a healthy fermentation. For my palate I think it is missing a hint chocolate in the malt flavor to round out the palate, but that's just a personal preference, and may not be the intent. Reasonably dry for style. A top beer to start watching the ashes with.

Fourstar

16. Chris Taylor - Red Weizen

Poured with a dismal head, not even pub foam. carbonation is lively, just no head (serving @ 7 deg). Colour is Dark orange to red/copper. It looks the goods! Forced some head with a pippet pocket sparkler, this dissipated within 15-20 seconds back to nothing sad.gif

Big Banana Esters in this, The fermentation character in this is perfect Chris! Top work! Im also getting some vanilla/sweet tea cakey aromas out of this... nice.

A big full mouthfeel with a high/bitey carbonation. Finishes distinctvly weizen like. Drying and wheaty with the crystal taking center stage with the beautiful 3068 yeast profile.... icon_drool2.gif

Onto the palate. Toffee, caramel, nutty, and uber sweet.. IMO, this would be a decent specialty grain grist for an American Amber and subbing the wheat grist for base malt. A very full on crystal character. A bit much for a Wiezen. IMO this is a Dunkelweizen come 'omg i accidently dumped my 3068 starter on my underhopped AAA!'

What can i say Chris, you have made my day with a decent, one off beer! Not quite a dunkel, not quite a red, not quite a weizen.. a dunkelredaweizen!

Brewmeister 70

16. Chris Taylor's Red Weizen

Hazy red colour with medium carbonation and medium head retention.

Lovely nose of sweet crystal malt and restrained spiciness (cloves) with some banana and pear.

The flavour is really complex, with the malt at the fore-front. The finish is clean and malty with only low distracting fermentation by-products, mainly acetaldehyde but low. Low bitterness, which is to style, medium body and great toasty and crystal malt flavours dominating.

Despite a small amount of acetaldehyde, the beer doesn't suffer form its presence and comes across as very well-judged in termes of balance and drinkability.

This will test the hop heads amongst us but this style isn't about hops or a "clean" ferment. The crystal malt is very prominant in taste, like a "red" ought to be but this is a hybrid brew if ever I tasted one.

A well-realised imaginative beer Chris.

Wardhog

16. Chris Taylor - Red Weizen

Nice reddish amber colour. Good yeast cloudiness. Small head that dissipated. Soapy mouthfeel and extremely sweet. Could taste the wheat, but was far too sweet for me.

This, plus loved the banana notes in this beer.

Leigh

16. Chris Taylor - Red Weizen

Nice reddish amber colour. Good yeast cloudiness. Small head that dissipated. Soapy mouthfeel and extremely sweet. Could taste the wheat, but was far too sweet for me.

citymorgue2

16. Chris Taylor - Red Weizen
Interesting beer Chris. Bubblegum.. sweet bubblegum. only a touch drier finifsh needed. we (fents myself) were debating how you got the colour and I can see now from your recipe it wasnt carroma or carrared. Could have done with a little more carbonation. definitiely a differant wheat beer and a nice change.

Fents

Chris your beer was sensational...a mate and i were very happy with it as we both dont like wheats but this was malty with a hint of wheat, nice one.

Hutch

16. Chris Taylor - Red Weizen

Very well crafted beer, if not exactly fitting the usual Weizen mould. Lots of sweet toffee/malt character going on, low bitterness, good carbonation, average head retention.
Some characteristic Weizen aroma's going on, clove/banana, but not dominant in any one.
Definitely sweeter than Don's Hefe IMHO, though not dissimilar in yeast character.

Cheers Chris.

Tried this one just before the case swap.

Not too bad, kind of a frankenstien style though. Probably would use different malts if I did it again.

Plenty of banana in their.

hairofthedog

Chris 16 Red Weizen

absolute cracker mate perfect after dinner beer lots of toffee flavor with a hint of vanilla & good banana esters loved it