By now, Shiner beers are well-known across the country due primarily to the growing popularity of Shiner Boch, a fine beer in and of itself. I generally try to stay away from well-known breweries since the goal of this website is to expose viewers to new beers they might not have come across. However, as often as I come across Shiner Boch in local grocery and liquor stores across the country, today was the first time I had come across the Shiner Hefeweizen.
I didn't quite now what to expect with the Hefeweizen. Shiner Boch is a personal favorite of mine. It was the only beer I had ever associated with the Spoetzl Brewery. Honestly, I my first reaction to the hefeweizen was not positive. The first taste seemed a bit too bitter. But I waited a minute or so and had a few more drinks and my opinion started to change. This really is a great summertime beer. It mixes great taste with the light beer feel of unfiltered wheats. It's ideal for someone who needs to cool off from the heat with a nice cold one, but can't bring themselves to drink Budweiser or Miller products.
The first taste as you take has a great citrus taste. And this is coming from someone who does not like fruity beers. But that citrus taste quickly dissipates as the malt flavor kicks in and it finishes with a great dry feel.
Here's what the Spoetzl Brewery has to say about Shiner Hefeweizen:
"Hefeweizen recalls the classic beers of Bavaria as a true unfiltered wheat brew. This beer captures old-world Munich Malt, wheat grist used in a scant 1% of all brews worldwide, orange and lemon zest in a frothy classic example of bottle-conditioned beer. Adding clover honey and yeast just before it's bottled touches off a unique, secondary fermentation process inside every keg and bottle before its final release from the brewery."
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