Bischoff Donnersberger

Brewed by Privatbrauerei Bischoff Winnweiler
Style: Schwarzbier
Winnweiler, Germany

Serve in Dimpled mug, Lager glass, Stein

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Mahogany pour with fair tan head. Cardboard and astringent. Is this wheat based? Malty floralness. I’ll take a 1554 over this any day.

dark copper colour. small and vanishing head. roasty start, metallic in a way. mid is also metallic. finish is surprisingly good, aromatically.

22 oz bottle. Pours dark with a fizzy small white head. smooth and sweet heavy malt flavour with a hint of berries. Overall rather bland.

There’s not much to this, the taste is thin with a taste of cola and licorice. Its kinda of thin, the rest of the beer taste weak.

Bottled 50cl. Poor nose with hints of hay, honey and metal accompanied by dark chocolate. Poor. Sweet buttery taste with hints of grassy hops and raisins. Metallic and sulphury. Cloying. Some tar sneaking in. Residual sugars in the finish. A mediocre Schwarzbier. Rather dissapointing.

500ml screw top bottle... classy! Anyway, pours clear, dark walnut with a fizzy beige head. Very sweet caramel nose, grassy and grainy. Light body. Sweet caramel and grain flavors, earthy and lightly chocolaty. A bit of dry bitterness in the finish, a touch of charcoal. Meh.

(50cl bottle) Small beige head atop crystal clear mahogany body. Aroma is medium sweet, skunkgrass, some roast, caramel. Taste is medium sweet, roast, caramel, some skunk/earthy, light raisin, chocolate, lemon lager yeast. Watery light-medium body, some smoothness.

.5 liter bottle, says best by April 24, 08 so I should have plenty of time, yet this tastes pretty old already. Pours a deep woody brown almost black with a thinning off white - grayish head with some good lacing. Aroma is toasted caramel malts, light munihc, but lots of graphite pencil, woodiness, and oxidized wet paper and cardboard with a good amount of dust and mustiness. Flavor is dirty old mild milk chocolate, nuts, crackery malts, burnt toast, and a drying soy and papery finish. Mouthfeel is a bit weak with a lot of mineral and some metallic and blood-like hints. Meh.

Sampled from a 12 oz green bottle this beer poured a dark brown color with a small beige head that lingered and left a bit of lacing. The aroma was perfumey, bitter and tart. The flavor was perfumey, bitter, tart and only mildly malty. The finish was long and perfumey. Medium body. Eh.

0.5L bottle. I like bischoff in general, but this is a weak attempt at a schwarzbier. It looks brownish-black in the glass, laces a little bit, and looks ok. Sour was the predominant aroma and taste, cheap. Palate is the weakest part, it’s not really malty or bitter, and doesn’t offer much. It’s not undrinkable, but I don’t think I’d buy it again either.