Anyone else here HATE Weiss

[creefer]

I'm sorta new to homebrewing and ales in general. I like a couple hefe's, like Shiner's...so I decided to make a simple one, then a Beligian White...god I hate them.

My wife claims to like them, but I've got 10 gallons of gut-rot laying around that I'm giving away to anyway who claims to like this stuff. To me, it tastes like smoked oysters. I thought I screwed up the brew until I was at a restuarant and tried a Chimay and it had the exact taste of my homebrew. Experiment over for me.

 

[tcklord]

Love wheat beers, well pretty much love anything but BMC. Paticularly like bells oberon, and just started drinking a honey weiss I brewed and think it is fantastic. I love hoppy brews too, last night I just started a new tour at Old Chicago and started it off with Summit Red horizon, Bells Two Hearted, and a Surly Ferious, mmm hops.

 

[Catch-22]

Love Wheats.

I ferment around 65 and don't have any big banana or clove esters present in bavarians and the sourness of belgians is just slight. My american wheats I ferment at 62 and use Kolsch yeast. But hell what do I know

 

[Sigafoos]

I thought I screwed up the brew until I was at a restuarant and tried a Chimay and it had the exact taste of my homebrew. Experiment over for me.

If a Chimay tasted like your wheat beer, something certainly went wrong.

 

[z987k]

It's not that I don't like wheat in beer. It's that banana and clove the the hefe yeast gives. Instant gag.

 

[SmugMug]

If a Chimay tasted like your wheat beer, something certainly went wrong.

I was thinking the same thing. A Chimay is definitely not a wheat. That said, I shall reiterate my previous statement and implore anyone who hates their beer to send it to me. I will send your fermenter back one I have bottled the beer. I might even clean it.

 

[jclune]

I love them too. I'm thinking of putting orange rinds in the secondary of a 60% wheat Bavarian I started. I'm having a party to share 5 Gallons with my friends, so I'll have a small sample population to estimate what percentage dislike wheat in beer. Do you think adding a orange twist will make it more like Bell's Oberon, and make the wheat taste more tolerable?

 

[Clayton]

wheat is for flour and bread
please keep it out of the kettel

i can drink about 1 or 2 wheat beers before i will drink a high life over a third nast raw cloudy stinky wheat beer. no beers should need a citrus fruit tray to acompany it make it drinkable.

 

[user 30639]

I hate this Weis

But I'm a big fan of wheat beers. They tend to be easy to drink during the Texas summer, which lasts from March until November.

 

[CaptYesterday]

Try a Weihenstephaner Hefeweissbier (try saying it a bunch of times quickly too).

If you don't like it, then there may be something wrong with you.

 

[LandoCalrissian]

I only brew German-style Hefe Weizens or Belgium-style Wits...none of that American creation stuff...

Exactly this. American wheat is possibly my least favorite style of all, it is just bland and…nothing. But Hefe and Wit, those are fantastic types of beer, and I could drink them all day and all night.

 

[Dwain]

I not only HATE wheat beer, I don't like people that like wheat beer! (JK about the people part) - Dwain

 

[Moose777]

Official Wheat beer haters thread.

 

[KYB]

Exactly this. American wheat is possibly my least favorite style of all, it is just bland and…nothing. But Hefe and Wit, those are fantastic types of beer, and I could drink them all day and all night.

Try Three Floyds Gumballhead. Awesome beer. Some wheats I like, some I don't. I don't like Hefeweizen.

 

[BrokenBrew]

Hate 'em. So totally burned out on Wheat beers, weizens, wits.

I used to drink Blue Moon quite a bit, then found ShockTop, and drank a boat load saving bottles for my homebrewing debut. Suddenly, I hate wits, wheats, etc. Could it have anything to do with all the wits I drank? Or maybe just change in tastes.

I recently tried a Witmer Hefe, threw it down the drain. Also a local micro's 'Summerbright', a wheat beer. Threw it down the drain.

I made a batch of wit awhile ago, couldn't finish it so gave the rest to an office mate. He loved it. I threw the last few bottles down the drain.

I believe I'll give myself a break from any kind of wheat beer - like maybe ten years or so!

Yuck