EKU 28

Brewed by Kulmbacher Brauerei (Schörghuber)
Style: Eisbock
Kulmbach, Germany

Serve in Dimpled mug, Snifter, Stein

(Bottle from <A HREF=http://www.ratebeer.com/Place/maine/portland/ target=blank>Downeast Beverage Co.) Hot vanilla sweetness...Pours clear slightly reddish orange with one finger of biege head. Nose is sweet sugar-candy malt. Palate is smooth and syrupy. Taste is quite hot, lots of vanilla and sugar candy sweetness. Like drinking a hot liquer. I like this style but this one I wouldn’t recommend.

I don’t speak German. So it’s a good thing this bronze heady fluid poured out of this brown bottle was an excellent eisenbock and not some type of poison. I don’t know if the Kulmbacher Brewery sells beer for export to English speaking nations, but I’m glad I grabbed a bottle of this. I read with amusment the last reviewer who used this strong beer to assist him in returning to sleep. I"m sure an 11% beer can do that...but then again, so can Robotussin. To me, you dont’ START your driniking off with a beer like this. You have to make sure the ’pump is primed’. Once you get tastebuds ready, this goes down very well and is a much more pleasent experiance.

I’ll remember this one because I really needed a strong beer today. I worked the night and while trying to sleep in the morning, my wife fell while trying to paint the bathroom and I had to help paint it. Then soon as I get back to bed, my daughter in college calls saying she needs my money.(this 3 weeks after her telling me that she has plenty of money and can spend it any way she wants) Oh, the beer had a very alcoholic flavor and I did not like it very much, but it did the job and got me back to sleep.

12oz bottle pours amber with a short beige head that was rather short lived. Aromas of alcohol, honey, and some caramel with a kiss of molasses. Flavor is caramel, molasses, alcohol, honey, and some grape skins. Full bodied with a sticky sweet palate and some alcohol heat at the finish.

Clear copper body topped by a short-lived beige head. Sweet alcohol on the nose. Taste is whisky-kind-of-malt wrapped in brown sugar with a few drops of vanilla to hold it up together. As the beer warms up, some berries flavours and a pleasant woody (cedar) flavour sneak in. Hop character is non-existent. All that would be fine if it wasn’t for the crushing alcohol presence and cloying sweetness. EKU 2.1

Bottle - Dark amber with thick creamy head. Strong aroma of malt, caramel, and alcohol. Flavors of thick sweet malt, molasses, honey, caramel, hint of bitter hops in the finish along with warming alcohol. I really liked the creaminess of it all and haven’t gotten that out of many beers.

Mmmm, very nice. Poured with a huge, thick, foamy, light tan head. Very little lace. Great dark copperish amber color. Aroma is very intense malty, caramel, toffee, and yeasty. Flavor is the same. Finish is yeasty bitter at first then fading to above sweet flavors. A hint of the big alcohol, but not bad. Super rich; would only want one or two. Having this one with a bowl of spicy congee and it’s a perfect match. They have it a Bodega downtown La Crosse too.

Bottle. Small and quickly disappearing off-white head. Clear amber body. Dry honey aroma. Sweet and sugary honey hops flavor with just a hint of alcohol.