 douglas88 (652), Salt Lake City, Utah, USA
May 3, 2008
500 ml swingtop bottle bought in Vegas at Lee’s Liquors. Pours a light brown with a medium brown head. The aroma was a rich malty mix with some fruit. The taste was really quite full of toasted malts and a bunch of sweet fruity flavors. Bready and sweet; like some German cake. I enjoyed this one. The label was cool and so was the brew.
markas101 (342), Fargo, North Dakota, USA
Jul 22, 2008 50 cl bottle, Mulmur (via Munich). Pale cola colour, thin head, Malt aroma, thinner in the mouth than expected, warming finish.
bubbleflubber (640), Collinsville, Virginia, USA
Jul 8, 2008 Pours nut brown into the glass, with a diminished head that reduces to no lace... odd, as the style usually calls for an unfiltered offering, and this is translucent. A bit of raisins and caramel malts in the bouquet. Drier bran malts (that open up sweeter as it warms), with raisins showing up again toward the mid- to back- palate. The finish has some slight grains and bitters. The mouthfeel is thin, and higher carbonation levels drown out any complexities that might otherwise be more predominant. Not terrible, and one could have a few as the drinkability is easy enough... just nothing to write home about.
Dedollewaitor (1825), Odense, Denmark
Jun 20, 2008 Bottle 50 cl. Pours amber/brown with a creamy white head. Aroma & taste is caramel malty & bready. A bit sweet & a bit weak body. Some grassy dry hops in the end. OK
DruncanVeasey (1533), Burbage, Croatia
Jun 18, 2008 This drinks like a soapy, caramelised, supermarket-own tinned bitter weighing in at about 4%. Soap, walnut, wood, caramel and discreetly herbally hops on the nose. Clear rubyish pour with a dying head of fizz. Watery caramel, nuts, faint marzipan. Not really getting the hops or hopfenextrakt. Insipidly tasty, but seriously wanting that Bavarian touch of magic. And shouldn’t a keller/zwickl etc be unfiltered?
Angeloregon (1549), Portland, Oregon, USA
Jun 16, 2008 Bottle from BTB in Vancouver, WA--Poured a dark brown, mildly chestnut body that was translucent with a medium pillow whitish head. Sweet, fruity, chocolate, malt, and grains nose. Toasted and crisp. Quite easy to drink. Finished with some dry black-tea flavors.
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