Hey? What happened to my Weiss? My first experience with Tabernash Weiss beer was when I visited Oldenberg's Beer camp several years back. It was about 9 in the morning, and they had a keg of this stuff on. At 9 AM. Now I love beer, but usually not at 9 AM. I made an exception for this stuff though, it was truly fantastic. You could have told me that keg came straight from Bavaria rather than Colorado and I would have believed you, the beer was that authentic. Jeff Mendel from the brewery was in attendance and recommended using the beer in lieu of milk to make scrambled eggs fluffy, it work's ok but I would much rather drink my beer.

Tabernash's brewer at the time was Eric Warner. Eric received formal training as a brewer in Germany, and he literally wrote the book on wheat beers in the beer styles series. In 1997 I wrote the following about Eric's beer:

Tabernash Weiss pours to a pale golden color, at least until one swirls the yeast at the bottom of the bottle and adds it, giving the beer a cloudy appearance. A fine cauliflower head rests atop, while a steady stream of bubbles ascend to it from the bottom. The nose is spicy and yeasty, as one would expect, and the palate is absolutely bursting with clove, banana, light hints of licorice, and a slight musty-yeast character. This beer is extremely crisp and refreshing with a slightly sour finish. A bit of Bavaria in America. Excellent!

I got a bottle from Beer Across America in 1999 and wrote this about it on May 24th:

Haven't had this one in a while but just received a few bottles from Beer Across America's Big 22 last month. Pale golden color turns murky mit hefe, huge head of foam quickly forms atop my Tucher hefeweizen glass, nose is full of vanilla and clove. There's banana, clove, and vanilla in the palate to be sure (though not as much as I recall in the past) along with some interesting apple-pear fruitiness. Body has a wheat crispness to it that makes the beer quite refreshing. Seems a bit less German than when I had it for breakfast at Beer Camp but still a nice beer for a warm may evening.