Eisenbahn Vigorosa (Weizenbock)

Brewed by Cervejaria Sudbrack (Schincariol)
Style: Weizen Bock
Blumenau (SC), Brazil

Serve in Dimpled mug, Stein, Weizen

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Bottle from trade with sevenlee, many thanks. Hazy dark red brown color with no head. Strong banana aroma, with yeast, hints of chocolate. Taste, wheat, banana, yeast, light tartness in background. Roasted malt with light bitterness in finish. Alcohol is well hidden. Interesting Brazilian Weizenbock.

Pours a dark reddish brown with a small head. Very tangy and slightly sweet, with lots of flavor. Bread, fruit, and caramel notes.

(Bottle) Pours deep mahogany brown with a small head. The aroma is a bit sweetish with notes of honey, toffee/fudge and dark bread up front. Light hoppy and fairly clean. Clovey phenols and light esters. Touch of bubble-gum. The flavour is light to medium sweet and light bitter with notes of toffee/fudge, spices, bread, honey and some hops. The mouthfeel is too clean/hard with a light carbonation. Brown sugary finish. Near medium bodied.

Appearance: deep, dark ruby-brown, with a short tan fizzy head. Aroma: cinnamon, clove, vanilla, cherries, chocolate. Taste: dark brown bread, molasses, chocolate, clove, caramel, toffee. Finish: fading notes of spices, chewy fruit, clove, and a hint of bubblegum. Notes: As many others have noted below, decent, spicy and rich flavors, with an overly light palate. A little too sweet as well.

Bottled, pours a dark muddy brown, no head, raisin and brown sugar aroma, flavor reminds me of cream of wheat with raisin and lots of buttery brown sugar, finish is syrupy caramel

A very original wheat bock. Color is what crayola called ’burnt umber’ if I recall my early days right. Aroma is strange fruit, vanilla, and mocha. Taste is similar to that, with a spicy start and am aftertaste that the last reviewer pinned down as bananas. Would be very interested to see the malt used in this beer. Thin but also creamy somehow. Very good but not perfect. Plus .1 for Eisenbahn’s N. A. market artwork depicting a steam locomotive emerging from the Amazon.

If you don’t like spices in your beer, beware of this one! This could easily pass as a Belgian Christmas Beer but since I know how to handle a Portuguese-French dictionary and read the back of a bottle, no more confusion is granted. In-your-face nose of cinnamomum zeylanicum (yes, yes, indeed), bananas (a lot of bananas!), cloves, cloves, cloves, cinnamon, plum jelly, bread, bubblegum, caramelized sugar, nutmeg. Mouth is more or less the same, boozy for sure, and very spicy. I got tired after I consumed half of my bottle (and as I said in a previous rating for I-don’t-remember-what-beer-and-I-don’t-care, I love spices and spicy beers!). Grosso modo, this is not a bad beer per se and, in fact, this is quite enjoyable but I would have preferred more balance in favours of wheat. Body is quite light and it’s a shame. This could be wonderful but there’s some (minor) imperfections that needs to be fixed. What do you think? I know what ryanfolty thinks but I didn’t read the previous reviews. Maybe I should before asking questions I will never get answers for? Maybe.

Date: August 19, 2011 Mode: Bottle Source: BVery, Burnsville, MN Appearance: Dark brown and good amount of head. Aroma: Caramel and fruity/sweet. Flavor: Consistent with aroma, thin bodied and smooth. Other: Pretty good, though nothing really stood out to me with this one.

Bottle. Dark brown reddish pour with a nice frothy white head. Aroma of caramel and fig like fruit. Taste is similar to nose and quite sweet. Smooth body. Decent.

Bottle @ home. Hazy, red-brown appearance with a tan head. Quite sweet, dark roasty wheat malts, banana, cloves in the nose that’s somewhat boozy. A little thin, fairly boozy, dark roasty wheat, banana flavor. Somewhat boozy finish. The body’s a little too thin and a little too boozy for my taste.