EKU 28

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

Serve in Dimpled mug, Snifter, Stein

Canned, in Bordeaux, France. A whole lot of powerful beer packed into this one. Big ripe old ethanol menaces around the top of the glass, guarding it from would be drinkers. This is brightly auburn coloured, clear and toxic looking. The aroma could strip paint. In Bordeaux all the beers seemed to be vary strong (with the exception of the mainstream lagers). The flavour is sickly sweet and doused in ethanol. The palate is long, strong and ever so warm.

12oz bottle. 1722302 in the black box on the back of the bottle. Filtered and bright ruby amber hue. Tight ring and web of cream colored head. Toasty toffee malt aromas. Cooked sugar and a noticable whiff of alcohol. Big sweet sticky malts, big fruit and alcohol warmth. Finishes rather dry and crisp. Hits all the tastes and palate. Toffee and caramel. Big red berry notes. Definite port notes. Short lived yet big effervescence. It stumbles and accosts the palate rather than pleasantly rolling over. Bold flavor definitions. I love sweet sticky beer, and this is in that ballpark. But I have had better, and from the same brewery.

Amber coloured, small off white head. Sweet yeasty aroma, light madeira touch, little dough. Medium body, sweet alcoholic with some carbonation and light roasted. Finish is in the beginning quiet flat, but than, a haevy trouht-warming alcoholic ending, somewhat sweet-bitter.Heavy, strange but nice.

Strong caramel-toffee cookie aroma. Light clear amber appearance with small head. Some orange peel notes in aroma. Strong bready-caramel toffee flavor. Rather sweet - borderline cloying. Lightly spicy hop finish. Some light fruity notes and a candyish quality in the finish.

UPDATED: JUN 10, 2004 Malty, sugary, alcoholic aroma, some faint notes of golden raisin and light toastiness. Light-medium copper color with a very slight head, seems to be lacking in lace as well. Flavor profile is malty and sweet up front, in fact largely dominated by light brown sugary sweetness but finishes with some mildly pleasant fruity, licorice and alcoholic tones. Smooth and lightly syrupy on the palate, body is undoubtedly very full. It had been a very long time since I'd sampled this beer last, and at the time I remember being completely daunted by the alcohol content alone, much less the huge, fruity maltiness this beer has to offer. I found a 12oz. bottle nigh impossible to finish singlehandedly, in fact, so you could say I didn't like it very much. Since those days I've sampled a couple of beers that were over twice as strong as this one in regards to alcohol content, so EKU 28 seems pretty tame anymore. Not bad, either, for all its one-dimensional charms.

bottle thanks to bu11zeye. poured a goldish/copper with a white head. aroma was honey, fruity, and orange. flavors were alcohol, medicine, and caramel. light body with a slick body.

Bottle, a clear amber, no head. Sweet toffeeish aroma with some corn characteristics., but also whiskeyish. A very whiskey flavour, the finish gets sweeter and more syrupy.

Pours a dark amber with a yellowish head. Smells of almondliquir and metals. Quite sweet and sugary. Slightly bready. Very full bodied. Dry, sweet and alcoholic finish.