Franziskaner Hefeweizen

by Kate McKeon
(Beer Delegate, TX, USA)

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

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.