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Flagship Beer Review # 4 – Hefeweizen from Widmer Bros.

Saving the Blazer emblazoned can for last. Portland beer news has been sad this month, with Bridgeport being shut down by Gambrinus and with Widmer closing their gasthaus/pub. So let’s go to a happier place and talk about the Hefe from Widmer.

Drank this Flagship while the Blazers eked out a win against the Celtics at the Garden no less. The classic NW Hefeweizen pours originally cloudy and I am getting more estery character than normal. A little spice and a little banana more in the flavor than the aroma. The mouthfeel is pillowy and finishes wet which makes it a quenching beer to really take full drinks of and not sips. Now I just need cans with the Timbers and Thorns logos. 

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Review – Sleek Zeke from El Segundo Brewing

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El Segundo Brewing is known primarily for their love of hops so a wheat beer seems like an odd choice.

But the Amarillo hopped Sleek Zeke wheat beer named for a surfboard just might be one of the best of the year. And I had missed it until now!

It pours a lovely hazy lemonade color and has a tart lemon aroma that really grabbed me. Like smelling lemons being juiced. The mouthfeel is just full of wheat. Thick on the palate with that note of citric acid displaying some grapefruit qualities. My bottle was over a month old so I presume the major hop notes had faded but that worked in its favor for me.

You don’t normally see wheat beers paired with desserts but this would really work with a grapefruit sorbet.