Köstritzer Bibop

Brewed by Köstritzer Schwarzbierbrauerei (Bitburger)
Style: Fruit Beer
Bad Köstritz, Germany

Serve in Flute, Shaker

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Bottle 33cl. @ home.
Clear dark red brown color with a large, frothy, good lacing, mostly lasting, light brown head. Aroma is moderate malty, roasted, burnt, moderate to heavy cola cola cola and cola. Flavor is moderate to heavy sweet and light to moderate bitter with a average to long duration. Body is light medium, texture is watery to oily, carbonation is soft. [20090111]

A red-brown beer with no head. The aroma is sweet and plainly of cola. The flavor is sweet only with notes of cola. The mouthfeel is sticky and the body thin.

(Bottle 33 cl) Apparently there’s no limit as to what the German breweries will mix in order to win some lost market-shares back from the young segment. This is the first time I experience scwarzbier used as the base. And here it’s mixed with cola an guarana. But it tastes okay, a birt like Danish "hvidtøl", perhaps. The cola absorbs most of the bitterness. 161003

Bottle @ Local Tasting, Nov 2010. Pours dark brown with a small off white head. Synthetic, cheap coke, syrupy. Low carbonation. Really nasty . . .

Bottle. Looks like cola, except the head is more stable. Smells and tastes like a bad, citric cola except for a little bitterness in the aftertaste.

Bottle. No head - bubbles only - just like a soda. Aroma is citrus. Taste is awful with a weird sweetness and acidity. Bad combo here.

Bottle at Berliner Bierfestival. The body has the brown color of cola, and is topped by a creamy, beige head. Cola nose with some hops, but I don’t think all the hops in the world could make it pleasant. The flavor has cola and hops as well, and is quite sweet. Cola sweet that is. Medium, sweetish mouthfeel and a finish with, yes, you guessed it, cola and some hops. Definately my cup of tea. (070804)

Botella. Deep dark brown, short fizzy head. The aroma is quite sweet with cola and some roasty malt. Fair mouthfeel. The flavour is rather unpleasant with sweet cola, some roasty malt and bitter hops. Sweet cola roasty finish.

First Snowfall of the Season tasting in Odense. Black with a lasting off-white head. Nothing but cheap cola in the nose. Sweet cloying cola flavour with artificial sweetener. A faint hint of malt in the finish

It is black with a red hue and a creamy head. The aroma has notes of cola and fruit, that must be guarana. The flavour is sweet with notes of cola, guarana/citrus and it has a dry, light acidity, It feel synthetic all the way through.