Schneider and Brooklyner Hopfen Weisse (bottle)

This is a collaboration beer between Schneider Weissbier Brewery (Germany) and Brooklyn Brewery (NYC). 

Pours a golden wheat color.  You can't see through it at all, which is fine because it's a wheat beer.

Smells kind of sourish.  For being a dry-hopped beer, I don't smell too much on the hop.  Maybe just a little bit of a grassy-honey smell, almost.

First impressions: tastes like a homebrew.  Not like that homebrew that a guy brewing for 10 years would make, but a homebrew that would come from your first kit that wasn't sanitized well.  Maybe it was the yeast in it, but it has kind of a sour-off flavor, not reminiscent of a wheat beer.

However, as the yeast settles a bit and the beer warms up, the sourness and grassiness becomes less apparent.  It becomes drinkable.

Does it have any of the clove, bready, spicy characters I would expect from a good wheat beer?  NO.

Do the dry hops help the beer?  Probably not.  From what I've gathered, you shouldn't dry hop or make a hoppy wheat beer.

Schneider Weissbier, stick to your original recipe.  And Garrett Oliver, stick to your original ales.

A disappointment for a collaboration beer.  Get a 1/2 pint to try it.

(Disclaimer: this beer was drank in a bottle imported from Germany.  It's been sitting in the fridge for a few weeks before opening.)