Bürgerbräu Wolnzacher Roggenbier

Brewed by Bürgerbräu Wolnzach
Style: Specialty Grain
Wolnzach, Germany

Serve in Lager glass, Tumbler

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Orange pour with no head or lace. Orange peel and paper aroma. Orange peel and sour malt flavor. Medium bodied and fizzy.

Sample at the Hawai’i Admission Day tasting from a bottle thanks to grownfool. Thin white head, orange-red body. Aroma is banana, fusel, caramel, light sour twinge. Taste is spicy, rye, banana, more caramel, light fusel or sour tang. Maybe that is how it was fresher or maybe it is turning a bit.

Sampled at the Hawai’i Admission Day tasting. I’ll admit up front that this beer was not fresh. But here goes anyway: Pours hazy orange with very small white head. The aroma is banana, onion, lighter fluid, and overripe fruit. The flavor is an odd sourness with banana, lemon, and wheat. It’s interesting but on the weird side.

Based on many revisits of this gem of a beer. Pours amber with some protein globules and a diminishing white head. Smells of lemons, wheat, oranges, lots of tangy qualities, some underlying tarte like hints found in many Jolly Pumpkin beers. Tastes of creamy sweet malt, lots of tangy hints, lemons, some underlying sourness, some wild qualities (accidental?). The palate on this reminds me of a melted milk shake. It is extremely velvety and enjoyable. The finish on this is a nice balance of tarte and full bodied grain. One of the best German beers I have tasted and easily one of my top 20.

Date: 11/26/2003
Mode: Bottle Conditioned
Source: Beverage Resort

opaque orange, big white head, tart malt aroma, light malt flavor, slight fruity character, nice but mild
-------- /> Date: 05/18/2005
Source: tasting

all shook up, good flavor but still too mild

Aroma: 5/10; Appearance: 7/10; Flavor: 5/10; Palate: 5/10; Overall: 10/20
Rating: 2.7/5.0
Score: *4
-------- /> The score was calculated based upon the notes and an old scoring system.

What frankenkitty said! Mine was obviously VERY long out of date (I can’t believe these aren’t flying off the shelves) Huge globules of brown sliminess and massive flocculated yeasties gumming up the works. But I STILL tasted it. Very intense rye spiciness predominates and herbal hopping. Carefull about old stock, eh?

Pours a muddy amber color with lots of floaties and a thick, frothy, offwhite head. Good aroma and flavor of malt, fruits, rye and spices. The body is light to medium with an oily texture and soft carbonation. Interesting.

Extremely chunky, flocculent body makes me think I got the last bottle off the fermenter... a bottle that shouldn’t have gotten filled. Murky sepia with a fluffy-yet-fading off-white head (<a href=http://www.workinlate.com/images/beer/roggenb soon.) Sharp rye notes above what I perceive as English hop varieties and touches of earth and ginger. Whiffs of alcohol late. Flavor greets me with a tart spiciness and lingers with a herbal bitterness. Palate is thick yet lively. In a word, this beer is "disturbing". (My god I wish I could find a code on this bottle.)

<font size=-4>Pint bottle from <a href=http://www.ratebeer.com/Place/illinois/frankf Liquors, Frankfort, IL 60423</font>

Poured a murky, reddish brown color with a medium sized, off white head that left nice lacing on the glass. Aroma of dried fruits, caramel malts, nuts, and doughy rye. Faint oxidation noticed in the aroma as well. Taste of caramel malts, some nuts, raisins, a dry rye character, with light smoke, some citrus fruits, and a dry finish. Didn’t have that huge, chewy mouthfeel you usually notice in rye beers.

From a 1pt. 9oz. euro brown bottle with no bottled/freshness date, unfiltered. Made a good appearance, poured carefully, first pouring 2/3 of the bottle in glass, then vigorously swirling round the last third in the bottle, a hazy reddish copper with a fluffy, bubbly pale tannish head that settled into a thin foamy lacing, good carbonation. Had a rye bready nose with a tart candied fruitiness. A crisp, carbonated smooth medium bodied mouth, good drinkability. Sour rye bready taste with a sweet tart apple fruity maltiness, crisp from the malts, a sour lemony towards the middle of the taste and a dry, sweet malty finish. If poured carefully, a delightful rye beer, tasty with good carbonation.