Great Divide Dunkel Weiss
Think of it as a hefeweizen’s older brother. A hearty mix of wheat and dark German barley malts gives it a medium body and muddy brown hue, while our proprietary yeast strain provides the signature notes of banana and clove. If you like wheat beers, come to the Dunkel side. You won’t be disappointed. Just don’t put any lemon in it. 6.4% ABV.
3.3
166 reviews
Denver, United States
Community reviews
while good, like all of Great Divide’s stuff, this was waaay too sweet for my taste. ill stick with straight up hefes.
22 oz. bottle from Randall’s. Pours a semi-cloudy deep copper color with a small off-white head. Aroma of chocolate malts, dust, wheat, nuts, tobacco, banana, and clove. Flavor of chocolate and barley malts, grains, toast, banana, sugar, clove, flat cola, and paper. Light-medium bodied, with a dry, malty mouthfeel and mild carbonation. Instantly drying finish. Nothing too exciting here; a decent dunkelweizen but I don’t like how fast it vanishes from the palate.
Bottle. Dark brown pour with a foamy tan head. Aroma of malt, yeast, banana, clove, and vanilla. Similar flavors. Tried it paired with pecan pie as suggested on the label and they went well together.
Poured from 22oz bomb - All around excellent wheat beer that is a pleasure to look at and drink. You have to like that fall sunset color--some particulate matter floating around. Fresh, subdued citrus, and lots of banana. I would also say clove, but I have no idea what that taste or smells like. What a great offering by Great Divide.
22 oz. bottle. Medium brown pour with little head. Sweet hoppy flavor. Delicious.
Poured a cloudy copper with a nice white head and average lacing. The aroma was roasted malts and light clove. The flavor had toasted malts and clove and a very distracting medicinal quality to it. Medium in body with a long finish.
22oz bomber. Cloudy brown pour with amber highlights and medium-thin short-lived light tan head that leaves no lace on the glass. Aroma is rich and very malty, thick, toffee and caramel with a hint of chocolate. Flavor starts malty with toffee and ’nilla wafers and some wheat flavor. Midpalate shows a hint of soft fruit and toasted bread with some caramel. Moderately full finish with a subtle hint of spicy hop bitterness. Mouthfeel is medium-full with a touch of honey thickness and moderate carbonation. Overall, tasty and rich but definitely lacking in wheat flavor and in esters and phenols usually associated with weizens.
22 ounce bottle from Veteran’s Liquor in Colorado Springs. Sweet chocolate aroma with some corn silage notes present. Light on esters, and overly strong on chocolate sweetness in the aroma. Mostly hazy bronze body with a decent off-white head present. Spritzy, spicy, start with some peppery notes present. Some dry wheat notes are in the middle. Finishes with some roast and some banana esters. An OK dunkelweizen.
A great example of the style particularly considering it was made by typically heavy-handed Americans. Nose jumps out, cloves, apples, yeast. Palate is rich and thick, an apple-sauce consistency and taste, along with nuts, banana and a very dry finish. Appearance by the way is nice, orange/red, some retention.
22 oz. bottle, pours reddish brown with a small off-white head. Aroma of nuts, roasted malt, almost a fungi smell, and some sweet caramel. Flavour of wheat, roasted malt, some caramel, clove and grains.
Mahogany pour that wears but a slight off-white foam, rather weak looking for a wheat beer. Strong clove and grain nose with subtle wheat and nutty munich character with a certain canned red/black beans metallic/vegetal undertone that survives and thrives in mouth. Not the brightest wheat extraction, it feels sugary and never refreshing and just plain thick, like a whole-wheat spicy banana cake and one in which the cakey nature takes a lot of space. I was never very fond of combining wheat - an ingredient best served by utmost freshness with richness, heaviness and alcoholic ales. Here, they went just a little too far to me and the beer feels staler for it. it must be said that the timid carbonation does not help.
Pours amber with a little bit of off-white head. Nose is weak and most wheat and yeast. Flavor is a bit more vivid, with banana, almonds, wheat, and a little bittering hops. Backside is fairly sweet and sticky. Decent dunkel but fairly standard.
Bottle. Pours a hazy dark mahogany. Smell is dark and sweet...raisins, caramel. Taste is like a dark saison, but sweeter. Less grassy earth, more grapes, plums. Not much carbonation, surprisingly dense.
a little underrated perhaps. this was solid, if just short of spectacular, in every single aspect. nice mahaginy color with big khaki head. smooth feel. aroma and flavoe of banana, malts, a touch of hops, and a touch of spice. super drinkable. great fall beer!
Bottle. Pours a deep murky red/brown with a thin creamy head. Scent of wheat, caramel and nuts. Taste is wheaty with nuts and a smooth sweet thing? Better than expected.
A dark reddish brown brew with a very sweet aroma. The flavor is quite sweet and nutty with dominant caramel notes, even some alcohol. Mouthfeel is medium with decent carbonation. This one finishes nutty with some dry wheat flavor, but the sweetness dominates still, perhaps a bit much for my liking. This is beer candy - without the bananas.
Opaque caramel color with a small but level tan head that lasts nicely. Citrus fruit, malt, and yeast in the nose. Flavors of lightly malted barley, cloves, complex fruit. The malt might be a bit heavy here at the expense of wheat notes. That malt leaves the beer with a syrupy molasses effect. Still, this is a flavorful beer that is very easy to drink.
bottle. pours hazed brick, thin off white head. nose of chunky banana and other weizen yeasties...flavors of weizen yeasties...banana, clove, and such. mouthfeel was thick enough, yeasty...all that weizen jazz... that being said...it lacks sophistication...its one dimensional and boring tasting, and thus we have it. it clean though...soft yeasty characteristics...but it doesnt entice me to go cqrazie or anything...not that i expected it to or anything.
Pours a murky orange-amber with an average size diminishing off-white head. Aroma’s toasty along with a touch of sourness, bananas, yeast and brown sugar. Sweet, malty flavor along with light hops, yeast and fruit. Full bodied. A fine Dunkel.
For a german dunkelweizen, this beer doesn’t have the right yeast or grains to complete the flavor profile. It’s too sweet and chocolaty without enough actual roastiness.
Bottle from pristine liquor. Pours a light brown with lots of carbonation and a small head. Aroma is sweet malt and bananas. Wheat notes. Taste is yeasty, banana, sugar, maltiness. Pretty good. Medium mouthfeel. A bit clamy. Overall this is a solid, underated beer.
Pours a cloudy-dirty water brownish color with a quickly vanishing slightly off-white head. Aroma of banana, nuts, and some grain. Flavor has bananas, grain, and clove. Decent beer for the style.
This bottled brew from a beer festival poured a head of tan colored bubbles that were mostly lasting and left behind a uncarbonated red orange brown colored body and a fair lacing. The mild aroma was mild hop and Irish Red malty. The deep flavor contained notes of mild brown malt and caramel. Delicious and quite quaffable. I would certainly buy this one again.
Hazy copper brown with a fizzy off white head. Bready banana and roasted grain aroma and taste with notes of caramel to the finish.
Bottle: The aroma consists of fruit, banana, caramel, nuts, and grain. It pours a very cloudy dark orangish-red with a small, somewhat fizzy, off-white head that diminishes rather quickly. The flavor starts with light fruit and banana. The finish has lots of roasted nuttiness, light chocolate, and a hint of grain. For me, there’s too much nuttiness and not enough banana and wheat notes. It’s medium bodied with light-moderate carbonation.
22oz bottle from BOTW. Pours a murky red brown, with a big pillowy head of white froth. Aroma is a sweet, but slightly smokey wheat. Really mild but enticing. Flavor has cloves, banana, but also a molasses sweetness. Really very nice. Silky smooth palate with just a small bite of carbonation. Good stuff.
A-pours a dirty dark copper color with red edges. the head is tight and creamy, very light tan color with a nice lace left behind.
S-the nose is quite grainy, a sort of dirty grit and wheat. notes of caramel underneath with a hint medicinal phenol.
T-again, a dirty grain, notes of wheat, nice banana and lemon flavors in the back taken over by a medicinal phenol flavor and touch of bitterness.
M-grainy feel with lots of carbonation in the back and spicy crisp finish. thin in the middle and towards the back, body falls off and is light in the first place.
D-phenolic and thin in the back lingering and bothering me. not a solid beer.
On tap at Piedmont, Durham. Pour that has some attitude, gleaming like the inscriptions on my precious. Soft creamy head and a fine nose of rich malts, slight ripeness from the yeast, and moderate clove and spice notes finishing it off. Mouthfeel was smooth and enjoyable, not overly slick. Flavor was nice, too, especially with local funky cheese. The malts weren’t too heavy or sweet, and their more earthy quality was a winner for me. Nice dunkel.
Very cloudy, one deminsional nose of bananas. Light body, a touch of chocolate. Very yeasty. Not bad.
Pour is a cloudy dark brown with a small tan head. Aroma is caramel, yeasty and dark fruit. Flavor is thick and chewy with some caramel and again with some yeast. I did not really get any banana or clove which was dissapointing. This was just ok and i don’t think i would purchase another.