Franziskaner Hefeweizen

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Franziskaner Hefeweizen

by Kate McKeon
(Beer Delegate, TX, USA)

Franziskaner Hefeweissen: don't drink it during $2 draft night

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Well chalk it up to adding water through the beer tap. Franziskaner Hefeweizen tastes like Amstel light. Why do I say that? So glad you asked. So my buddy is drinking Amstel light (don't ask me why) and I am attempting to have Francis' Hefe, my love name for Franzikaner Hefeweizen. Here's the scoop, I have a pale liquid set in front of me with a lemon - clearly a hefe, right??

As it turns out, probably not. My hombre Tonya tastes her beer.
"Kate, this is your Hefe."
"No, this has the lemon, it just tastes watered down."

At which point the three of use sample each one of the beers trying to figure out which one is Fat Tire, which one is my hefe and which on is the offensive light beer. (Was that out loud?)

Sadly, it was very hard to tell the difference between the hefe and the Amstel... Dear lord, what have you done with our Kate! Wait, I know, I know, chill. It was $2 draft night. EVERYTHING tasted like water.

So normally I'd tell you the bouquet on the hefe was moderate. You - generally speaking - know when you're drinking a hefeweissen, but it isn't overpowering. Now during $2 draft night, the first night college students are back in town, well, the bouquet was a closer kin to pool water, not kiddy pool water, but pool water nonetheless.

The drunk factor: I am mildly buzzed with the two 12oz pours. What is wrong with this picture - are they adding inebrients to my near beer francis' hefe? What devils!

Don't ask me about calories and crap, I don't give a rip. Go run an extra mile if you're freaked about that stuff.

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Franziskaner Hefeweizen

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Jul 25, 2010
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are you kidding me?????
by: Anonymous

If you can't just look at a fat tire and a franz hefe, and see which one is which, you should be drinking bud light! Furthermore, it may not be the best hef in the world, but it tastes a hell of a lot better than amstel light, you moron!

Jul 25, 2010
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Mar 17, 2010
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haha
by: Anonymous

Seriously, amstel light = water. Even american hefe crap is better than amstel light.

Jun 02, 2009
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Brown bottles vs green bottles
by: Anonymous

I highly recommend that you drink Franziskaner in the larger brown bottles. I've had Franziskaner in the 12 oz green bottles and felt it didn't have the same flavor as the "good" Franziskaner in the larger brown bottles (with the gold foil tops.) Perhaps the difference is in the fermenting process.

And whatever you do, don't compare it to Amstel light, that beer is complete schei�er.