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Penn Weizen

Brewery: Pennsylvania Brewing Company
Where: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Beer: Penn Weizen
Style: Hefeweizen
IBU:
ABV: 4.0%

I can't give this beer a really fair shake in a review today.  It poured with a nice golden wheat color and the traditional wheat cloudiness of a good hefeweizen, but as you can see, the head is practically non-existant.  I had to work to get that little layer of foam on the top of this beer, and it died within 30 seconds of the time this photo was made.  The beer was flat.  I'm not sure why.  Its not old beer.  It was, however, a gift, and it made the trek here from Pennsylvania in a car, so I'm not sure what might have happened to it on its journey.  The beer had the traditional banana/clove aroma of a hefeweizen and the taste was about average on the scale of this style, but the beer being flat simply ruined it for me.  Hefeweizens are traditionally carbonated at a little higher level than most other beers, and when that element isn't present at all, the beer just has a strange feel to it in your mouth.  I have another bottle of this, so I will try it out and update this post if the second attempt is any better than the first...