Capital Eisphyre

Brewed by Capital Brewery
Style: Eisbock
Middleton, Wisconsin USA

Bottle from trade with hoppymeal. Good aroma, sweet. Yeasty cardboard, peanuts, cherries, wet leaves, hint of chocolate. Abv is big, Beautiful clean orangy red color, good head & lace. Tad harsh sweet flavor. I got an initial sweetness that quickly bittered. Vanilla extract, butter creme, bready, Abv has bite. Thick body, creamy mouthfeel, bittersweet finish. Tasty, brash brew. Good sipping beer.

Pours with a large head for the style, off-white over a rosy, dark amber brew. Complex malt aroma that reminds me of a Trappist ale. Alcohol and dark fruits. Fairly light palate follows, delivering a malty smooth brew that has just a tad of bitterness to balance. Good DoppelBock.

This is a stronger version of autumnal fire and very smooth. Pours a very dark ruby red with a slight tan head .This beer warms you as it goes down a great sipping beer and nice finish to it.It hides the alcohol well glad i have more

Firey dark orange. Big frothy top of fluffy tannish foam thats unlasting to the point of a mere minute, if that. Keeps a solid collar present and laces the glass in thick stings and some spots. Aroma is super plump and inviting with a malt display that equals most of Capital’s bigger bock beers. Ample red apple, some soaking dark cherry, mild melon, toffee, and berries. All swirling about with a rich dullness like that of fruit salad spritz with a bit of ethonalic heat. Mild taste without as much complexity as the nose but has lasting malt flavors sinking in slowly as it tends to get deeper and richer towards the finish. Among the maltyness is some favorable toffee soaked breadyness mixed with dark fruityness of cherry, molasses, dates, and a touch of nuttyness and rounded off candied melon in the close. Feel is bold, big, and malty. Rich tones of malt grabbing smoothness with a sliding little thick stickyness to its girth. Alcohol is hardly evident as it glides right down with ease. Just a pinch of carbonation on the tongue towards the front end and mellows from there with the malts making their way across the palate. A solid effort by Capital; right up there with most of their other big bock beers.

12 OZ Bottle via trades with Buckybeer & Hezron (thanks!). Pours a clear dark amber color with an average size beige head. Mild aroma with toasted malt notes of vanilla and caramel. Tastes like it smells, starts out very sweet and fnishes with an almost burning sweetness with some alcohol present, i do think i detect some subtle cherries and some mellow english hops in the finish. Medium bodied. I thik this is my first eisbock and i must say i quite like it, although one will be plenty in a sitting.

12 oz bottle from Trig’s in Eagle River, WI (August 2006), consumed at cellar temperature from a Corsendonk glass. Moderate smooth fine-bubbled off-white head resides majestically atop a hazy dark amber-purple royal body, lacing thickly as the liquid recedes....rich lightly burnt caramel, port wine and raisins are the stars in the decadent though relatively simple nose, which does grow a bit in complexity with warmth and hints of alcohol and tobacco....the creamy, velvety, ever-so-rich mouthfeel allows some alcohol apparency but really just enough so you know what you’re drinking, the front moderately sweet (caramel and brown sugar) edging to a burnt/charred character in the toasty malts towards the finish and some woody (maple-oak) touches help this lightly carbonated, gloriously full elixir to attain transcendence, or as near as we’re likely to get. Joy.

Pours a beautiful dark amber,almost red color with a small tan head. Has a malty,caramel,grainey aroma to it. Wow!Nice huge malty flavor and a nice bitter finish...VERY good!

12 oz bottle. Clear amber with active carb. Dense, light tan head slowly settles. Blueberry and strawberry jam. Caramel underneath. Quite boozy plum brandy; a little letdown from the nose. Woody aspirin after. Begins with a nice sweetness and crisp carb but develops into an unpleasant dry sourness.