Weihenstephaner Vitus

Tonight's Beer:
Weihenstephaner Vitus
7.7% ABV

You may have noticed that I skipped a night. I fully intended to drink a beer and blog about it last night. However, I had an after-work dinner with some colleagues and didn't get home until quite late. In the past, I've pushed through. But looking at less than 6 hours of sleep before going into work this morning was not attractive. So I skipped a night (and a beer). I may make it up tomorrow or on Christmas Eve. Or perhaps Advent 2016 will simply be missing a day.

Tonight's beer is the Weihenstephaner Vitus. A few weeks ago I reviewed Weihenstephaner's Festbier, and in 2015 I covered the Korbinian (which is delicoius). If you took a drink of the Vitus without knowing anything else about it, you would likely assume it was a hefeweizen. It's a pale color, slightly hazy, and has the strong banana flavors frequenly associated with wheat beers of the hefe variety. However, the Vitus is not an ale but a Weizenbock. For a bock, it has a complex flavor profile with lots of aftertaste. You might call it a hefeweizen masquerading as a bock (or perhaps a bock masquerading as a hefe). The Vitus is a good beer. It won't put you under the table, but the flavor is going to demand your attention.

Broad Categories:
Good
German