Kapuziner Weissbier Schwarz

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

Savannah, Ga. - Habersham Beverage Warehouse - 500 ml bottle. Dark purple-brown pour, excellent thick khaki colored head that leaves sticky lacing. Aroma of licorice and chocolate with a backbone of bubblegum. Flavor has some chocolaty notes, a bit of licorice, brown sugar and bubblegum. Thickish mouthfeel. Very good dunkelweizen.

Bottle and served in my Aventinus glass: Caramel colored with a large fluffy off-white head and very good lace. The aroma has notes of toffee and pumpernickel bread, molasses, earthy, prune, anise, slight wheat esters and some buttery notes. The taste is more driven by the dunkel side of the brew than the weizen. Sweet malts and dark fruits over a layer of biscuity malt and wheat. A hint of dry smoke and very light smoke upon the finish. The mouth feel is far too thin IMO. A serviceable beer I guess but I want my Dunkelweizen to show more wheat and yeast character. Drink this like a Black Bier and you may not be as disappointed.

Real nice appearance, very dark, orange highlights, thick head, great lacing and retention. Pleasant aroma, spicy, doughy. Palate is smooth and chocolaty but comes up a bit bland. Good overall.

(Stockholm Beer Festival 2007) Bottle. AMber color, nice creamy offwhite head. Malty aroma, abit roasted. Malty, fruity flavor with banana notes.

Caramel and milky malt in the aroma. Also citrus in the nose. Sweet malt in flavor. Little watery.

Pours an almost opaque ruby brown with a great tan head. Nose is slightly malty, but exhibits very little character. Flavor is sweet with an interesting almost corn like flavor. That is what hit my mind at first. Overall it is a really odd combination of flavors that almost seems like more than one beer blended together. I get a really odd yeast flavor with a hearty weisse flavor lingering in the back. Feel is good with a nice slightly higher level of bubble and the liquid feel is slightly bodied, though not very thick. Definitely drinkable. A very interesting production and worth trying out. I am glad I did.

Bottle: Pours deep brown with a burgundy hue in the light, and has ample tan head. Not really characteristic of a Dunkelweizen. Has a very mild aroma which is a bit roasty with brown sugar, tobacco, and fig. The flavor is initially a nice toasty, brown sugar flavor with some dark earthy notes. Then it just becomes bombarded with an unappealing wheat malt tartness that doesn’t mesh well. Doesn’t seem like a Dunkelweizen; more like a tart, confused Schwarzbier. Is this categorized under the correct style?

0.5L bottle -- Reddish brown with a firm and lasting foam top. The aroma is of licorice and dates with a hint of sweetness. Similarly, the flavor leans more toward licorice and anise than the very faint banana, giving this a unique character. This would be excellent with game, lamb or duck, or any big meaty dish full of flavor. (#3089, 9/9/2007)