Bushwakker Classic Vienna

Bottle courtesy of CBA: Poured a deep slightly cloudy amber color vienna with a good size head with great retention. Aroma of malt with a weird hint of peat/smoke and some light hops. Taste is a mix between some peat malt and some lightly sweet malt. Overall taste was drier then expected and that smoke/peat taste was going from gods knows where since I am sure there is no smoke malt in there. Overall, this was a weird experience but still rewarding and definitely not what I was expecting.

I can’t believe I never sampled this before. This is probably one of 2 ( and the best) examples of this elusive lager style in Canada. If Buswakker was down the street from me I’d rent out a back room there, move a cot in and stay there until the supply of this Austrian elixer was gone. Bottle: Pours a deep copper-red lager in the glass with a decent 3 finger sticky cap that stays and laces. Aromas right to BJCP style guidlines...toasty malts,nutty, light sweetness herbal Hersbrucker hopping. sits in the background....excellent!! Up front you get a long chew on toasty-nutty real Vienna malts, the proper noble hopping rides just beneath radar in the background as a good Vienna should ( this is a showcase for the malter’s art)...mid palate the malt complexities mount; bundt cake, cinnamon toast, muffin dough...all with a wonderful woody-earthy-herbal tingle from the Hersbrucker-Tettnang-Hallertau hop infusion that rides just out of radar range....Finish is soft, decadent and malt accented with the hops offering a subtle drying. Wunderbar! A perfect Vienna ; malt accented, soft, elegant maltiness that dries out in the finish to avoid becoming sweet. One of the best lagers in Canada.

Sweet bakery bread like aroma. Nice large creamy head. Dark orange, copper colour body. Plenty of lacing left in the glass. Very thick malty almost baked taste. Sweet finsih.

(Draught) 5 oz sampler tasted at the brewpub on December 29, 2005, for $1.50. Pours a lasting medium-sized, beige creamy head with a mahogany body. Nose is roasty and doughy. Under the toasted and creamy malt, I found the flavours somewhat berry and tart? The texture added a wonderful creamy, oily palate to a bready finish. This beer was a delight to have on tap - I can only hope the bottled version stands up to expectations in February at the "Heaven can’t wait..." Party.

a nice malty aroma and ample head were my first impressions. the light yet malty flavor was matched with a nice carbonation. This is my favorate Bushwakker that I’ve sampled thus far!