Monday, June 18, 2007
PYRAMID HEFEWEIZEN: A GREAT NO-THINK, NO-LOOK BEER
When you arrive at a certain plateau in beer geekdom, it’s tempting and dead easy to disparage the “macro micros”: Sam Adams, Sierra Nevada , Red Hook, Anchor Steam and the like. While I’m quite happy to have those around when I’m out & about at a run-of-the-mill bar or watching a band, of course I’d rather have something I’ve never had before. Back in the 90s one beer that I used to drink frequently & which always seemed to be sitting in the fridge in a sixer was PYRAMID HEFEWEIZEN. Used to love it, but I’ll bet I haven’t had one in seven or eight years despite its ubiquity here in Northern California .
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Pyramid Hefeweizen gets an 8/10 but St. Bernardus Abt 12 gets a 6/10?! Ohmigod, my head just exploded!!
Anonymous, we fancy ourselves as tellers of hard truths here at Hedonist Beer Jive. Then again, we don't know nothin' about nothin'.
Kicked out? Nah, not yet. I agree it is an easy to enjoy beer, even if I'd give it a couple points less. I was recently invited out to Pyramid in Sacto where I tried their entire lineup - they don't brew crap beer, but if we all admit it we know that. You'll have to keep your eyes open for the not-yet-released double IPA they'll be putting out... now that should be fun.
Good stuff, Jay.
I'd have to agree, it's a lot better than Widmers.
Anything Widmer makes automatically gets two points subtracted because I once saw a Widmer print ad where beer was spelled "bier". That would be normal if the entire ad was written in German, but it was an English-language ad, which made the "bier" spelling more of a posturing, posing, wanking exercise than I could possibly be asked to digest. Of course, the ad agency did it, but certainly at least one of the Widmers signed off on it.
I keep waiting to be impressed by something Pyramid makes. Their stuff okay for the price (between a buck to $1.50 cheaper than most the other craft brew 6 packs available in the town) but nothing I've been too impressed with. I tried the Hefeweizen the other night and it was average. For me it was more of a 6 than an 8. The wife and her stitch-n-bitch circle really like their apricot wheat. though.
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