Spritzy lemon fizz and white peppered herbal respite deter stylish banana-clove sweetness and dainty mandarin orange tang, though powder-sugared sourdough bottom retains dense eggy yeast richness.

On tap at Casual Pint – VB, understated hefeweizen slides bubblegum candied sweetness into faded lemon-fizzed banana and clove easement, picking up mild apricot, apple and peach snips on the way to its fragile sourdough spine.
On tap at Seven Lakes Station, hazy straw yellowed hefeweizen retains lighter mouthfeel despite stylishly higher 6% ABV. Subtle brown-sugared banana bread sweetness and mild clove spicing allow lemon-soured dried plantain stint and wispy herbal tinge to contrast vanilla wafer flouring at its sourdough bottom.
Crisply brisk lemony passionfruit juicing never recedes as fizzy orange soda, ripe red grape, sweet cider and candied mango illusions sweeten German brewers’ variant tropical hefe.
Middling hefe defers some of its stylish banana-creamed clove spicing to herbal gingering, lemon zesting and cider sweetening over dryish raw honeyed sourdough wheat base.