EKU 28

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

Serve in Dimpled mug, Snifter, Stein

With a beautiful amber color, it looks great in the glass. You might want to leave it there.

[Bottle] Dark orange colour. Prickly mouthfeel, loads of Co2. Thick almondy flavour profile with lots of sugar sensed - and alcohol. And glue.

This beer is like flat lemonade once poured as its head disappears in an instance. The aroma has a slight peach scent and the taste is of a very fortified beer. Due to the strength of the beer it is too difficult to drink.

11.2 ounce bottle - $2.98 at Sherlock’s in Marietta, Georgia. Appearance: Pours a clear, rich amber-hued body with an off-white head that’s rather tal--oh, nevermind, it’s gone already. Smell: Sharp, sweet-scented nose packed with plenty of nostril-pricking alcohol wafts. Outside of the liquor and sugars, you get notes of almond syrup and stonefruits. Taste: Cutting initial sweetness of stirred up caramel, honey, and golden syrup kick-start the taste. Subtly toasty maltiness. Full sip of Lazzaroni Amaretto, imparting suggestions of almonds and apricots. Perhaps a little apple juice as well. Soon, EKU 28 dries out as the rather warming alcohol begins to intercede, with the sting of booze numbing the tongue to sweetness in later sips. Peppery alcohol tones abound on the warming, sweet, lengthy finish. Mouthfeel: Medium-bodied. Relatively light carbonation. Drinkability: A strong, sweet, potent lager, with the overall drinkability you’d expect from such a brew. So, it makes for a decent late-day sipper and is not something to pound in the early afternoon (well, not me, at least).

Strawberry-blonde appearance, with an aroma of strawberries and alcohol, but no head what-so-ever. Strawberries in the flavor as well, nice maltiness - the sherry-like qualities are very evident. The alcohol comes through a little too much in the finish, drowning out the otherwise pleasant flavors of the beer. For my first eisbock, this is a mostly pleasant experience.

Bottle. Amber colour with a small mostly diminsihing white head. Aroma and taste of sweet malts. The higt alcohol pct is well hidden.

UPDATED: AUG 1, 2006 In the bottle at Huber Haus. Pours amber with a quickly diminishing head. Has a peculiar apple aroma, if you can get past the alcohol burn. Crystal clear in its transluscence. Sweet and syrupy without any hop balance. Sorry, but just about any American Barleywine can kick its ass. Someday, maybe, the Germans will discover the hop when they play with the high gravity stuff. UPDATE 6/25/6: On tap at the Huber Haus. Amber beer with a thick rich cascading head. A very chewey beer vom foss, but I find it to still be out of balance with the strong alcohol not masked by malt or hops sufficiently.

Bottle at Jimmy’s no. 43 during the Lovullo Bock Tasting Session. Pours ruby-amber with a small, white head. Heavy caramel malt aroma, with some pilsner. Super sweet flavor, loads of caramel and sugar. Sticky and sweet in the finish. Body is full and carbonation is average. Potent beer.