Victory
Sunrise Weissbier
Review Date
Ok, you say, you
try to keep up on some of all these seemingly endless types of beer that
adorn your local store shelf. And, you add, it’s become a rather tough job.
And say, isn’t that the 200th IPA I’ve seen in the last year? And……what’s
this? A weissbier? Victory Sunrise Weissbier, to be precise?
Just what the heck is that supposed to be?
And remember, try a new beer today, and drink outside the box.
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Ah, friends, fear not, because if you’ve tasted the wondrous glory of a
hefeweizen, then you know what a weissbier is: the same thing. Weissbier is
wheat beer, and hefeweizen is wheat beer, and as they used to say in algebra
class (and likely still do), if a=b and b=c, then a=c. And you thought beer
made you less intelligent.
Why name a beer sunrise, you ask? After all, I can remember plenty of
occasions after a long night of imbibing that I wasn’t too happy about
seeing the sun rise. Do I need a beer to remind me of that? We’d have to ask
Bill Covaleski, brewmaster over at Victory, why the beer was named as it is.
But I can tell you that Bavarians sometimes indulge in a breakfast of
weissbier und weisswurst (white beer and white sausage), and my money is
on that inspiration. Indeed, I have fond recollections of a tall cool glass
of Tabernash Weiss with breakfast at Oldenberg's Beer Camp a decade ago.
Here are the specs from the Victory website:
Malts: 2 row German barley and wheat malt
Hops: German and Czech whole flowers
Yeast: imported, of German origin
Alcohol by volume: 5.7%
Victory Sunrise Weissbier pours to a cloudy, murky whitish yellowy
color with a thick, towering rocky head formation and an invitingly spicy
clove nose. Close your eyes when you take a sip and you can almost imagine
yourself back in Bavaria, sipping from a tall curvy glass in a festive
biergarten. Victory’s version of a classic hefeweizen is very authentic,
with a crisp refreshing palate of tart crackery wheat, spicy notes of
vanilla, banana, and clove, some lemony citrus, and a very quenching tart
finish.
I’ve always though wheat beers to be some of the most very drinkable beers,
and perhaps some of the best suited for warm weather. Today, it reached
about 76 here in Atlanta, and after my daily walk I was craving a very good
beer as my reward. Victory did not let me down with Sunrise Weiss, and I
suspect it won’t let you down either. Four and a half stars, but for
Epinions purposes I’ll round up to five for this wonderfully complex brew.
