It's The Most Wonderful Time of the Beer: Hallertauer Craftbier Blau Weisse

If nothing else, this year's version of It's The Most Wonderful Time of the Beer is going to feature some extremely long beer names.  Like Hallertauer Craftbier Blau Weisse.  Try saying that fünf times fast.  Go ahead, I'll wait.  You can't do it, can you?  Okay, let's stop these silly little games.  The HCBW, as I call it for short, is a wheat beer, which you probably guessed from the title.  However, it's not like your standard Bavarian hefeweizen.  Brewed in Hohenthann -- which is in central Bavaria a little more than 50 miles northeast of Munich -- HCBW seems to take some influence from saisons, and it doesn't have the classic banana notes that you come to expect from a Bavarian wheat beer.  It's a saisony wheat, rather than a wheaty saison, so I liked it.


Name:  Hallertauer Craftbier Blau Weisse
Brewery:  Hohenthanner Schlossbrauerei
Location:  Hohenthann, Germany
ABV:  5.6%
IBU:  N/A
Good for drinking if:  You like saying "It's a little dank, but not too dank." 
Rating (out of five stars, by quarter star increments):  4