Capital Eisphyre

Brewed by Capital Brewery
Style: Eisbock
Middleton, Wisconsin USA

12oz bottle, 2003 vintage, shared by psprings at hellbilly’s holiday tasting. Pours cloudy amber with a small beige head. The nose is maple syrup and ripe fruit. The taste is caramel, brown sugar and molasses. Medium bodied. Not bad, but a little past its prime. Thanks Paul!

Shared by psprings at hellbillys tasting. Pours a brownis color with a white head. Aroma is caramel, malt, rasins. Flavor is sweet malts, fruits, spices, hops and alcoholic. Thanks Paul!

Bottle shared by badbeer. Thanks. Poured a clear medium orange color. So so mixture of smells including the likes of cheap toffee, alcohol, plum, and raisin. Medium to full bodied and delicately sweet with mild bitterness and a warming alcohol effect. Boozy and fruity flavors with a grain steeping barley note. So so. Past it’s prime perhaps.

Sampled courtesy of badbeer. I’ve been wanting to try this for a few years now so it was awesome to try it out. The beer pours a good red color. The aroma is slightly spicy with plenty of booze apples and cherry. The flavor is very brandy like with notes of alcohol and liquorish. For all the booziness it has a wonderful silky texture. Very enjoyable.

Bottle courtesy Hopdog - huge thanks! Was holding onto this for a while to crack open with a friend who really wanted to try it, and we weren’t disappointed. Pour is a relatively clear brown color with an orangey tint, and a very thin head that dissipated into a thin film. Aroma is sweet and malty with some hints of spice...nothing remarkable, but very pleasant. Flavor is much less sweet than the flavor would suggest, but is chock full of caramel malts, some dark fruit, and some toasty notes as well...maybe even a slight note of hop flavors in there too, but I might be dreaming here. Very smooth and not much of an alcohol flavor for an Eisbock. I don’t feel this was past its prime by any means...plenty of carbonation and the flavors seemed true...wish I had another to crack open in another year or so!

12oz from the cellar. Pours orange with a tan head. Nose is sweet. Taste is very medicinal, did i open robitusen or beer. blech. probably past its prime

Medium statured tan head, good retention and nice lacing. Clear Amber/brown color. Nose is moderately sweet, caramel malts and bready notes with some light spiceyness. Body is full, lightly oily, chewy. Lotta malts here, caramelly, grainy and somewhat worty, fruity and a little toasty too.fairly sweet but finishes relatively dry considering. Lightly fruity and earthy. 10%? Did,nt even notice it. Props to eaglefan for sharing, thanks Brian!!

Bottle from Styles, shared at State Line by me. The pour was full darker amber, comparable to a darker blonde doppelbock. The head was surprisingly decent for the ABV, good off-gas on bottle opening. The aroma was sweet bubblegum and really rich caramel. The flavor followed suit, slight toasty notes, strong doughy and candy notes also present with a slightly resinous finish. This was a malt bomb, as would be expected, but it was a bit too cloying. The most impressive aspect of this beer was its hiding of the heat, as I was really questioning while drinking weather it was really an eisbock as the title led me to believe: 10pct ABV? Wow, hard to believe, pretty smooth. The mouthfeel wasn’t sticky given the flavor, medium body. Thanks, Chris, this was indeed a fun one!