Capital Eisphyre

Brewed by Capital Brewery
Style: Eisbock
Middleton, Wisconsin USA

Serve in Dimpled mug, Snifter, Stein

Bottle; Pour is honey gold with amber highlights; fairly nice beige head that retains decently in this glass; average lacing is present. Caramel, nuttiness, raisins on the nose. This brew is sweet and lightly bitter on the tongue; raisins, bready malts, caramel, brown sugar - it’s quite drinkable and has a very smooth mouth feel, yet doesn’t feel watery. Perhaps a bit too sweet, but otherwise, fantastic.

12oz bottle from Steve’s Liquor and More in Madison, WI. Pours a clear, rich amber-orange colored body with a finger-width, frothy, light tan head that dissipates slowly and leaves a nice lacing. Aroma is sweet and grainy caramels with some bready malts, a moderate grassy straw hop, and some banana esters. A bit of a fruit cocktail as this warms with some toffee and florals. Flavor is big and malty up front. Lots of grainy, fairly sweet caramels and bready, cereal malts. A nice grassy hop, a few nuts, a light banana ester, and some raisins/dark fruits follow before the initial sweetness mellows nicely and this dries with a pleasant, light bitterness. Still finishes with a good amount of grainy, cereal malts that keeps the focus on the malty sweetness, but the hops really transition this nicely and keep it far from cloying or overly sweet. Lengthy aftertaste following a very smooth, medium body and moderate carbonation. I like how this didn’t get too full in body. Overall, a really nice eisbock. Definitely full of malty sweetness, but an excellent transition into a balanced, grassy and grainy finish. Solid beer.

On draft at Brass Tap Wesley Chapel. Pours deep amber with red highlights and an off-white head. Nose is sweet malt, maple, raisins, slight booze, lager, toffee, maple, and some plum-esque bits. Flavor is very similar- the beer gets a lot better as it warms- maple, raisin, toffee, and some lager. Syrupy and medium-bodied eisbock.

On tap at the brass tap in Tampa. I don’t know how a keg got down here but im glad it did. Pours a deep orange aand served in a sniffer. I didn’t taste too much of a boozy flavor and really good.

Pours clear orange with thin to no head, aroma has notes of some slight caramel, dark fruit, touch of earth and biscuit. Taste is notes of toast, some bread, caramel, some earthy spice, finishing slightly dry and sweet. Not much to it, the best part about it is how well it hides the alcohol. Taste is very lacking for an eisbock...

Reviewed from notes. Poured into a flute. It’s not often we get to break those out; always love the eisbock or NG fruit beer occasion. Pours a moderate brown with not much of any head and what is there dies.pretty quickly. Nose is booze, dark fruits, cherries, brown sugar, and a bit of caramel. Taste is more boozy with sugar and fruit. Alcohol in the feel though it’s not too overpowering. Drinks fairly well and is a pretty nice beer. Serving type: bottle Reviewed on: 11-03-2010

12oz Bottle Thanks to JohnGalt1. Pours out a dark copper topped with a small off-white head. Aroma of caramel, apple spice, pit fruit, brown sugar, and a little yeast. Taste was sweetness with the caramel and brown sugar. Along with a nice light toast finish.

bottle, thanks to ughsmash in trade, pours a stout looking orange amber, frothy khaki colored foam, aroma is a malty fruit punch, sourdough bready malt flavor with plum and raisin, nice slightly metallic bitter finish