Maisel’s: Weisse 5.2%
by DanCave on Sep.01, 2009, under Beer Reviews, Misc Beer, Purity Brewery
Opening Maisels Weisse
Opening the bottle shows medium to high amounts of carbonation (fizzyness). Pouring it shows it to be a head happy beer with a dark straw colour and white head.
Maisel weisse Bottle
As with all weisse and white beers (especially a hefeweizen I like this) it looks cloudy. This particular weisse isnt as cloudy as some others like floris or meantime wheat.
What does the weisse smell like?
It has the traditional wheat/wisse/wit smell in droves with the smell finishing with a malty digestive note. It’s almost like banana cheese cake base but with all the usual weisse notes too.
What does Maisels Weisse taste like?
All of the lovely wheaty flavors are there on first taste, the flavors are on your tongue as soon as it hits your mouth. Some wheat beers can have a musty, sweaty taste and smell but maisels weisse happily is missing those sour notes.
I can taste more malt in this than ususal with weisse/wit beers, but with a smooth mellow wheat flavor th biscuity malt blends well with the wheat to make a good rounded beer.
Trying to think about individual flavors there are: dried banana, very slight cloves and crème, plus the usual wheaty ‘yeastyness’. Almost like a savory desert beer.
Some times when you drink beer you can tell right away its quality and that you are going to enjoy every drop of it you ever drink untill the day you die, well this is one of those beers and seriously challenges some of my long held favorites for a place in my favourite beers.
If you take all of the good bits from Leffe, Floris Wit, meantime wheat and add make them into a smooth, seriously tasty beer thats not only easy to drink, but has very good flavor and body then you might be able to imagine maisel’s Weisse. It even tastes good ‘on the burp’.
Summary
Smooth flavors and feel, rounded and balanced, easy going but with plenty of flavors.
This is the sort of beer I made this blog to talk about. Its foreign, interesting, imported, fantastic to taste and out of the ordinary. I might not have known about it if it were not for the Continually kind and knowledgeable people at purity brewery, so again thank you to them for importing this wonderful beer.
Disagreement in the camp?
I’ve heard people say the flavors aren’t strong enough in it which is all well and good if your are drinking beer for the sake of being arty and poncey, but I drink beers looking for a beer to enjoy regardless of the snobbery, I just want something that tastes good and this is it. if you want a challenging you can drink some overpowering, brutal beer, but this to me is beer for the ordinary beer lover who drinks beers of all kinds of beers and loves it because they taste good, not becasue they are challenging and intellectual.
You can get Maisels Weissen from Purity Brewery along with some other great imported beers.
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August 17th, 2009 on 12:43 pm
I’m a fan of Maisel’s Weisse. I guess I hold a soft spot for it as the likes of Erdinger and Franziskaner were like gateway beers for me, and moving to Maisel’s (way back when) felt like lifting the flavour stakes up a bit. I’ll still order it if it’s available in a pub here. Great on a hot day.
August 17th, 2009 on 12:53 pm
I agree, Erdinger is about as entry level as it gets with this kind of beer, and I can see how the Maisles could be a good step up from the kind of things people might be used to buying in the shops.
I actually do find grolsh weisse quite nice too in the shop bought category, but the maisels Weisee is in a laugue of its own comapaired to the run of the mill stuff.
August 17th, 2009 on 2:14 pm
I’ve never seen the Grolsch one. I’ll definitely try it if I see it.
August 17th, 2009 on 8:07 pm
Hi Barry,
They sell it in ASDA, for about £1.50 I think.
Its pretty good considering who makes it
August 18th, 2009 on 8:28 am
I’d be wary of conflating the tastes and profiles of German Weizenbier and Belgian Wit. Could be confuding as they are rather different.
August 18th, 2009 on 8:28 am
Or confusing even!
August 18th, 2009 on 9:35 am
Ah, the Grolsh is a belgian wit? You never know sometimes…
Anyway, Asda is nowhere near me
I’ll have to check the local booze markt. It’s not often you find belgian-style wit beers here.
August 18th, 2009 on 10:59 am
To ease Any confusion:
Wit:
“A Belgian Style ale that’s very pale and cloudy in appearance due to it being unfiltered and the high level of wheat, and sometimes oats, that’s used in the mash. Always spiced, generally with coriander, orange peel and other oddball spices or herbs in the back ground.”
Weizen:
“Another name for Weissbier or Hefeweizen. “Weizen” means wheat. In Germany, all Weizenbiers must have at least 50% malted wheat as part of the grain bill before they may be labeled Weizenbier.”