UPDATED: SEP 15, 2023 Bottle from Appellation Wines. Appearance - dark brown but still clear. Some red chinks. Foamy off-white head. Nose - toffee, rye bread and dried orange. Taste - sweet toffee, almost strawberry jam, spiced bread, mincemeat and malt loaf. Palate - medium bodied, sweet and creamy, only slight dryness on the finish. Overall - this has a lot of the characteristics of a doppelbock but at a lower ABV. So, not on style but very tasty.

UPDATED: MAY 8, 2023 Flasche 0,5l: Kastanienbraun, Kupfer, glasklar, kräftiger stabiler mittelporiger Schaum; leicht fruchtige + kräftig würzige Nase, rauchig, florale/kräutrige Hopfennoten, dezente trockene Zitrusnoten, kräftige Röstaromen, Röstmalz, Getreide, dunkles Karamell, leichte Hefearomen, dunkles Brot, Brotkruste, malzig-würzige Bitterkeit; sehr würziger + leicht fruchtiger Körper, deutlich rauchig, florale Hopfennoten, leichte trockene Säure, kräftige Röstaromen, Röstmalz, Getreide, dunkles Karamell, cremig, moderate Kohlensäure, leichte Hefearomen, nussig, Haselnusschalen, Muckefuck; malzig-trockener Nachgang

UPDATED: MAR 6, 2023 Appearance: Foggy copper colour with a large ivory-coloured head of very good retention. Aroma: Caramel & toast, dark bread, dried apples & pears, herbal hop. Taste: Similar picture. Light to medium sweet and bitter. Pleasant hoppy ending. Mouth feel: Medium to full body, average carbonation. Summary: Good classic balance stuff.

UPDATED: DEC 6, 2022 Dark amber colour, small head. Aroma is bread crust. Light bitterness. Medium carbonation. not bad.

UPDATED: JAN 31, 2022 Canette 50cl couleur brune mousse beige goût café torréfié caramel dur,basique

UPDATED: JUN 9, 2021 Big bottle from Trembling Madness, 9th June 2021. Pours a chestnut brown and clear, reasonable head. Aroma is nutty, caramel and malty. Taste is roasted malts, caramel, earthy, malty, not too sweet, very decent stuff

UPDATED: MAY 14, 2021 Bottle from House of Trembling Madness. Brown pour with decent head. Malty, light tobacco and chocolate, decent beer.

UPDATED: SEP 20, 2020 Poured reddish brown body with diminishing tan lacing. Aroma has roasted malts with some light spice hoppiness. Taste is medium sweet with light spice finish. Palate medium, sticky average carbonation and a light finish. More my kind of lager

UPDATED: FEB 9, 2020 'Echt Veldensteiner Landbier' from the Neurenberg region, 50 cl swingtop bottle thanks to my boss. Thick, foamy, yellowish pale beige, very mousy, cobweb-lacing, audibly fizzing and quickly thinning and opening (eventually completely disappearing) head on a crystal clear, warm deep copper coloured beer with bronze hue. Aroma of cookie dough, raw chestnuts, hard caramel candy, toasted peanuts, freshly ironed polyester cloth (pasteurisation!), cold tea, iron, soda, rusk, autumn leaves. Clean, smooth onset, fizzy carbonation with strong minerally effects, malty from the start with a slick, bit resinous, peanutty, hard-caramelly and toasty profile gaining a bit more depth and fullness as it unfolds towards a mildly spicy but long-lingering, very herbal and tea-ish hop bitter finish; iron and mineral aspects accompany this flavour path, as well as vague touches of nutmeg, iced tea, baking soda and chewing gum - and of course that dead-cooked pasteurisation effect subtly overseeing everything. Your typical old school German Lager with a nutty and caramelly malt profile, quite 'dark' for a Landbier actually, approaching the personalities of Alt (even if that is technically not a Lager) and dunkler Bock; in fact, if I were given this beer in a blind tasting, I would probably misidentify it as a dark German Bockbier. Very simplistically but efficiently malt-forward, easily drinkable and well-rounded, I had no issues chugging down half a litre of this. It has been years since I last had a Landbier but this one has the potential to be a bit more memorable than the (traditionally German) others, also because the hop department too shows a bit more 'oomph' than I am used to in this particular range of beers.

UPDATED: DEC 28, 2019 Riecht süßlich, caramellmalzig. Dunkles Landbier, feine Schaumkrone. Der Antrunk ist süßlich röstmalzig, mit Noten von Karamell, heller Schokolade und einem winzigen Hauch Kaffeebohnen. Angenehm carbonisiert. Überraschend gut