Pedestrian German wheat stays dry as salty lemon spritz prickles fried banana scour, winy Sauvignon Blanc sputter and phenol spicing above sugary sourdough base.

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.
In the can, skunked cabbage waft and murky lemon-rotted orange adjunct scour anticipated banana-clove sweetness, picking up dried plantain starching. Better on tap.
On tap at Ambulance and a tad richer than most hefeweizens, its creamier soudough sugaring gets upped while the lemony banana-clove influence stays in the herbal midst.