EKU 28

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

Serve in Dimpled mug, Snifter, Stein

Bottle picked up at Total Wine in Alexandria. Served in a Hill Farmstead wine glass. Pours a bright red-copper that is nearly transparent. Quite light and clear for a doppelbock. There is a thin off-white head to begin, though that quickly disappears and doesn’t leave anything behind other than a few thin legs. Smell first pushes through some notes of sherry along with some dark fruits, cherry, and molasses. Brown sugar there as well. Lightly sweet and a bit boozy. Very complex. Flavor isn’t quite as well integrated, hitting more of the sweet brown sugar notes and less of the sherry. There’s also quite a bit more booze than there was in the nose. Feel is medium with low carbonation and a bit of alcohol. Quite good overall. Very different than the typical doppelbock, though something that I thoroughly enjoyed. Serving type: bottle Reviewed on: 03-16-2011

High in alcohol, earns extra points. Brewing process, earns extra points. Taste, loses points.

A hazy, light copper pour with a white head. It has a sweet lollipop aroma mixed with some bready malt. The full body has a slick texture with average carbonation. The taste is moderately sweet with some alcohol taste and warmth in the finish.

Bottle. Malts, malts malts. Aroma, sweet mild malts. Flavor, sweet mild malts. Alcohol hidden quite well, especially for 11%. Touch of caramel notes, that’s about it. Inoffensive, highly drinkable for what it is, but nothing else really pops out of this one.

Pours amber with a white head. Aroma is alcohol, dried fruit and breaddy malt. Flavour is heavy alcohol, dried fruit. vineous and breaddy malt.

Bottle. Pours cherry brown. Nose of cherry pit, toffee, brown and candi sugars and alcohol. Taste of loads of candi sugar, alcohol, toffee, brown sugar and cherry pits.

Pours brilliant copper with a nearly-to-the-top-of-my-tulip head. Recedes rather fast though. Aroma is sticky sweet fruit, grapey, some citrus. Medium body, moderate carbonation. Quite sweet up front, a bit bready with those ripe fruit notes in the middle, with some resiny, earthy hops on the finish. Alcohol warming from the 11% is present and the finish has some heat, about on par with the ABV. Pretty decent stuff. Definitely unique enough to warrant the occasional quaff when something different is called for.

Smoth buttery beer with a malty finish. The hops is light and could be better balanced but for an 11% beer this finishes smooth and easy very easy to drink.