Heban

Barlan Beverages Group Sp. z.o.o.
Brewed at Herrnbräu Bürgerliches Brauhaus (Schörghuber)
Style: Schwarzbier
Warszawa, Poland

Serve in Dimpled mug, Lager glass, Stein

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6th Dutch Ratebeer Gathering. Black/reddish coloured. Hard to say what the aroma is. A bit chocolate like. It’s malty and a bit watery.

Nice intensiv color. It smells dark-malty, sweet caramel. The taste is roasty, coffee, liquorice. Good! 11/11/12/11/12/11

"Heban Black Beer", says the label, "first Polish Black Beer", though, oddly, the brewer or city of origin is not given. Only Berlson Imports, Minneapolis, MN. A little web searching leads us to the Jurand Brewery. Now, let’s crack open this black beauty and see what lies within... Blackness, absolutely, in appearance, under a prodigious helping of creamy cocoa/ tan foam. Nutty in the nose, creamy, lovely cocoa aroma, a hint of coffee, sweet, yet dry. Nice. Tasting it...nice, full flavor, big chocolate, minor nuts, prevalent coffee tones. Brisk carbonation, nice sweetness, swiftly offset by bitter. Medium bodied, with a long, tasty, sweet finish. Very supple and easy-going in the mouth. Quite likable. Nice dessert beer. Mellow and tasty. Take your time and relax with it. Stuck figuring the style though. Is it a lager or an ale? Could pass for a stout, but it really plays like a dark lager, and it is identified elsewhere as a Bohemian schwarzbier, so that’s gotta be it. I’m a sucker for a well-done version, and this is that. Well worth the $1.88 for the 16.9 oz. bottle.

Backlog Gdansk Easter 2010 Bottle at Degustatornia Dom Piwa Black color ok foam Medium body & complexity Ok beer

Good black color,small but long lived tan head that left a nice lace behind.The aroma was roasty and malty with a slight bit of caramel in the back ground.The flavor was roasty and a bit dark with some hints of chocolate up front a slight amount of caramel or possibly burnt caramel and finishes up with a roasty chocolate.I actually have to say i like this alot and must rate this above what the average is.Very nice flavorful brew that is just plain smooth all around.

Bottle: Clear red/brown colour,no head. Aroma of lots of malts, citric, some caramel is there to. Flavor is thin mouth feeling, dominated of malts, short finish.

Dutch Ratebeer Gathering. Clear, very dark coloured, small head. Malty, somewhat sweet, not really roasted. Very watery. Not very special, but it’s a beer i could drink more in a row of.

Black colored, slight red hints. Little beige head. Nicely roasted coffee aroma with caramelly sweetness. Taste was roasty and a bit dark with some hints of chocolate up front a slight amount of caramel or possibly burnt caramel and finishes up with a roasty chocolate.

[Bottle from Anna Polski.] Nice surprise from Poland, but this bottle is from south down under. A lot of great schwarznotes, but a little thin mouthfeel for my taste.

Appareantly the first "black beer" in Poland. I assume that also includes dark beers in general. The beer is however completely black with a thick head, although it’s not as thick as the picture on the bottle. The aroma is strong of roasted coffee and bitter cocoa-powder. Very good taste indeed. The coffee-theme is continued with an added sweetness reminding me of mudcake. The finish is short but strong. Good one, but hard to find in Warsaw.