No Label Brewing Co El Carlito
What the brewers say
an imperial version of our El HEfe
What our panel thought
"Bright yellow color with fleeting white foam. Bready and grainy wheat-like malt notes blend with some classic banana and clove-like esters in the nose. Spicy banana esters lift on this one. Banana bread and clove open up as the beer warms on the pallet. The sip is aligned with what the aroma promised with some nice spiced banana bread like notes within a grainy but lightly sweet malt body. There's a sweetness throughout that finishes with a gentle bitterness. Firm but restrained and pleasant floral hop bitterness and a nice spicy clove note help to temper the sweetness and create a nice balance and lightly bitter finish."
What our editors thought
"A bit light in color and oddly clear for a weizenbock, but the familiar isoamyl and phenolic aroma notes are present as expected with an almost clinical edge. The sip feels similarly calculated, hitting expectations with baseline energy and verve. More body, a touch less sweetness, and a bit more bitterness for definition, and it would be in prime territory."