After a long day, I decided to bust open my German Hefeweizen yesterday, and try it out. If you recall, I brewed this beer with Blueberry Muffin Top Cereal for my brewing club's upcoming "Broken Hydrometer" competition. The goal is to come up with a brew that uses an entire box of cereal.
Here's the first pour! It has a nice thick head, and great haziness, but that's about all I have in common with the BJCP guidelines.
Over all, the beer is pretty bad. The banana flavor is overwhelming, and there's a slight off-flavor that makes the beer taste metallic. It's drinkable (I had two bottles), and has a pretty strong kick at 5.5% ABV, but it's not something that I'd drink voluntarily.
The cereal flavor is completely missing, too! There is a slight after-taste of the sweetener from the cereal, but there's no blueberry flavor at all. This is pretty disappointing! After the competition, I'll probably end up dumping the rest of it, unless someone wants to take it off my hands.
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