JosephsBrau Dunkelweizen
JosephsBrau Dunkelweizen is an unfiltered wheat beer brewed with dark roasted malted wheat and caramelized malted wheat in addition to pale malted barley. The complex flavors produced by the Bavarian Hefeweizen yeast strain are enhanced by the roasted flavors from the dark malts. 5.2% alcohol by volume, 18 bitterness units.
3.2
235 reviews
Monrovia, United States
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From a bottle, pours a deep deep amber, bordering on garnet, with a light tan head that settles to a steady centimetre and leaves nice lacing down the glass. Aroma is toffee, bananas, and a faint touch of cocoa, almost like grilling a banana and dipping it in cocoa powder. Taste is fresh bread, traces of caramel, bananas, and a grassiness in the background. Mouthfeel is medium, carbonation is evident without being prickly. Overall a good, well made, drinkable beer.
Bottle from trader joes. Pleasant aroma. Watery beer. Not bad but surely not warsteiner dunkel.
12 ounce bottle. Pours a slightly murky dark bronze color with a small white head. A sweet spicy nose, banana and pepper. Light berries, toast, some caramel. Pretty smooth as all these TJs beers are. Dark toffee. Banana ester finish. Solid.
The head is somewhat lacking but color is great with a hazy dark brown. Notes of banana, bubblegum, and clove along with a noticeable sweetness; almost cake-like.
The flavor is very nice as well closely following the aroma. All of the flavors could be stronger overall but this beer nails it in the drinkability category. Slightly sweet mouthfeel with decent body. For $5.99 a six pack you really can’t go wrong here.
Smells and tastes buttery. The wheat flavor helps the finish, but you really have to hold your nose to enjoy this one.
Nice dark caramel color with lots of head. Plenty of banana in the aroma and the yeast strain is quite present. Good value.
Poured from a 12 oz bottle into a weizen glass in late 2013.
A: Dark caramel color with a slight head. Very cloudy with yeast. The head recedes quickly.
S: Strong banana. Delicious. Slight banana bread.
T: Follows the nose.
O: This is a great value for the price. It’s not as good as the German dunkels, but it’s still good.
Fresh bottle from Trader Joes. Cloudy amber brown with lasting tan head and lace. Fresh mild banana clove and dark bready aroma. Mildly roasted nutty caramel fruity sweetness with wheat tang and mild minerally bitterness. LIght and extremely refreshing. Soft carbo. Fairly dry. A very reserved example of the style. Delicious and refreshing. Wish I bought a sixer.
Tallahassee, Fl - Trader Joe’s - 12 oz bottle - Murky dark orange pour, thick, sticky white head with decent lacing. Slightly funky, butterscotch aroma with some ripening vegetable notes. Flavor has some of the same ripening vegetables, a hint of cotton candy sweetness. Finishes kind of rough with some metallic notes. Thickish mouthfeel.
Very foggy, medium-dark brown. Average label, but a little better than the other Josephsbrau varieties. Standard 12oz longneck. Fruit and caramel, candied, mossy aroma with a faint nuttiness. Candied and lightly bitter up front, a tight carbonation break in the middle and then an almost herbal mossiness at the end. Slightly funky aftertaste with some peanuts, then it goes fadingly sweet. Tasty, sessionable. TJ’s, Tallahassee.
12 oz bottle with a BB date stamp of 17 April 2015.
The body is dark reddish-brown, slightly hazy, with a durable and creamy tan head. There’s some lacing.
Aroma: banana, clove, caramel and baked dark bread.
Flavor: parallels the aroma but with less obvious banana and more prominent medium malts. Moderate complexity.
O: very impressive and inexpensive version of this German style.
No retention and no lacing. Smells of toffee, coffee and bubble gum. Tastes of caramel, toffee and raisins. Sweet aftertaste.
bottle into glass at club w, shared with hakes , sunday dinner, poured hazy brown with off white head, aroma is spices and herbs, fruit, tast eis similar, decent dunkle
355ml bottle. Hazed reddish/brown pour, off/white head. Inintila aroma is diacetyl and toffee, certainly not on point. Flavor is weird, definitely lots of caramel and toffee, some dark fruits, bit watery. Just not a great example of the style.
"Like most TJ beers, not a bad p/u for a buck, but nothing to get excited about either. just on the tame side of all te attributes you expect from the style. bubble-gummy, a hint of spice and roast, and banana. a little thin."
This is a decent dunkelweizen as far as dunkelweizens go. It is a very murky brown w/ but a scant head of fine white bubbles. It smells like bananas and bubble gum--so I guess like Juicy Fruit. It is a bit sweet and slightly heavy on the palate even though it has relatively vigorous carbonation. That sweetness serves to highlight the bubblegum flavors which are frankly just not to my liking--and I love big fruity German wheats. It finishes w/ lots of caramel and a lingering sticky sweetness. Aside from that bubblegum note, this seems to be a reasonably well brewed beer w/o off flavors but it really just doesn’t hit the spot for a spicy yeasty wheat beer.
Ok showing for style but nothing amazing here. Pours cloudy brown with ok head and lacing. Light bread yeast. Some basement musk common for style. Bottle.
JosephsBrau Dunkelweizen has a thick, cream-colored head, a dark amber, very bubbly appearance, and no lacing left behind. The aroma is of dark, crusty, spiced cake and odd waxiness. Taste is of rich, sweet, yeasty, flavorful, spiced cake, bubblegum, some banana, and a touch of coriander. Mouthfeel is medium, and JosephsBrau Dunkelweizen finishes medium-dry, easy drinking, and delicious. RJT
Nice aroma of sweet spices and bread. Nice orange brown with a formidable tan head. Rich sweat toffee mixed with sweet spices up front. Finishes a bit watery, with an off bitterness... With some sweet notes.
Bottle. Murky, muddy brown, as you’d expect. But the aroma is overly swee. And indeed this drinks with an over-the-top sugary-sweet musk. There’s a hint of the prerequisite yeast, but the sweeter-than-cookie-dough flavor is too much. (#5498, 4/27/2014)
Medium amber pour, slight haze. Toast, banana, light clove. Sweetness lingers. Medium body.
Meh a pretty bannany offering. GB makes much better Dunkels and even contract on for Trader Joes that is better.
Pours a cloudy light brown with a big full retentive light tan head. Banana and clove aroma. Taste is smooth sweet barley and wheat malt, caramel, fruity with mild spices and virtually no hop bitterness. Nice Bavarian weizen.
This was a nice, flavorful beer with some complexity that you wouldn’t expect from a TJ’s beer for 6.49/6-pack. The unfiltered nature mixed with the toasted malt gives the beer a nice mouth feel.
bread, grass, floral, dough, banana, pale, hazy, frothy, medium sweetness, lightly bitter, medium sourness, salty, medium body, creamy, average carbonation,
Bottle at bobs. Sweet nose with apples cloves and spices. Light brown hazy with a fast receding head. Spicy fruity palate a little thin but really good
Pours a hazy amber with a thin white-tan head. Nose is of caramel. Mouthfeel is fully carbonated and fairly creamy. Taste is grains, caramel, yeast with a slight hop note on the finish. An enjoyable beer that pairs well with most deli sandwiches, cheese or nuts.
Bottle from Trader Joe’s in Eastlake: Created a thin layer of patchy foamed head where as the liquid was a glowing tea brown that seemed to glow while also having a hazy appearance. In the nose, there is a scent of banana, clove, or bubblegum that is smells of authentic German yeast that actually makes me glad I had bought this instead of something else from Trader Joe’s. The flavor is mild with only a minimum amount of clove that doesn’t stack up compared to the aroma, but overall this is a decent dunkelweizen that holds up nicely for a full session of the 6 pack. However, the palate is a little harsh and carries a strong burn of alcohol.
12 oz. bottle from local Trader Joe’s with the Joseph’s Brau label. Yet another decent for a good price at $1.08 each. Cloudy amber in color with lasting thick head. Nose is authentic German yeast giving the nose of banana Esther’s, clove and hints of bubblegum. The flavor is mostly the same with the addition of caramel and brown sugar, perhaps toffee as well. Medium in body that may lean on the thin side. Overall no problem at all with a lightly creamy texture that lets this brew slide down my throat. Honestly if you don’t like this beer then you don’t like this German style. I enjoyed it and would purchase again.
Thanks to Eugene for sharing - turbid reddish brown - nice nose, with appropriate sweetness, baked apples, clove, and light smoke, nutty wheat - medium dry, semi tart flavor - notes of nuttiness, cracked wheat, moderate clove, baked apple, mild banana, very subtle smoke - very solid dunkelweizen.