Schneider Labrassbanda Love Beer

Review Date 10/31/2022 By John Staradumsky

  Style: Hefeweizen   Brewery: Schneider   Country: Germany   State: N/A   $ Per OZ: $.30 (B)   ABV: 4.9%

I found Love in Helen, Georgia. Don’t tell my wife, but I did. OK, well, I guess you can tell her because I already did, since the Love I found was Schneider Labrassbanda Love Beer. I had been on the hunt for this one for a while, ever since I first saw someone checking it on Untappd. I finally found it on October 19^th at Alpine Brew Bottle Shop in Helen, one of my favorite liquor stores in the state of Georgia. They have more German beer than you can shake a bratwurst at.

Schneider Labrassbanda Love Beer is named for Labrassbanda, a popular Bavarian, you guessed it, brass band. Lucky them, they get a beer named after them brewed by the one and only Schneider brewery.

Schneider says on their website:

Schneider Weisse Love Beer is a wheat beer with a lovely golden color topped with a dense and bright white foam. Aromas of citrus, stone fruit and elderflower hint at flavors akin to Sauvignon Blanc. The beer has a refreshing tang that finishes with an earthy noble-hop bitterness. Typical of all Schneider Weisse beers, Love Beer is a well rounded and balanced drinking experience and true reflection of Bavarian life.

Schneider Labrassbanda Love Beer has an alcohol content of 4.9% by volume and I paid $4.99 for my half-liter bottle from Alpine.

Schneider Labrassbanda Love Beer pours to a hazy yellow-white color with a thick rocky head and a nose of clove, banana, and white grape. Taking a sip, the beer is crackery wheaty up front, then spicy with clove, hints at banana. Notes of white grape poke through. Finishes tart wheaty and white-wine dry. Delightful!

Interestingly, when I was taking notes on this beer I mistyped “clove” as “love”, omitting the C. A Freudian slip, or can you really get the love in the aroma? All I know is that I love Schneider Labrassbanda Love Beer, and I will be sure to buy it again.