Kuhnhenn Raspberry Eisbock

Brewed by Kuhnhenn Brewing
Style: Fruit Beer
Warren, Michigan USA

Huge thanks to hoppymeal for this beer. Pours a very dark reddish brown with a little mocha head. The nose on this is amazing...dark chocolate raspberry truffles just dominates the air...wonderful. Flavor is surprisingly smooth and full...and I’m sipping it like a port. Taste is very much chocolate raspberry truffles along with port, oak, vanilla and caramel. Finish is long and lingering. Being a huge wine aficionado, I just love this beer...fantastic.

on tap at hop devil in manhattan. it was happy hour - so we got this half price at the same time as Kuhnhenn Tenacious Casis... which was a lot to take at once. pours a dark reddish brown and a small tan head with no lacing to speak of. smells of raspberry, dark chocolate and a hint of caramel. my initial impression was that it tasted like grape soda. creamy with a medium mouthfeel and a long sweet and tart (somehow) aftertaste. raspberry jam and caramel mixed in. very complex and interesting - just not really my thing. K-6

Bottles from miketd and Crizay. Thanks guys!!
Pours a rich thich, dark maroon color with a short lived beige head. Smell is rich raspberries and chocolate, like a raspberry truffle, and is very smooth and strong smelling. Taste is creamy chocolate covered raspberries, and a syrupy body with smooth and decadent bittersweet caramel and some dark dry chocolate notes. Light bitterness lingers along with the slightly sweet raspberry flavor which is never cloying. The alcohol is hidded well, but it is slightly warming as well. Very soft carbonation, and I can’t say this is a letdown at all, although it is still quite expensive unfortunatley. Looking forward to trying it aged as well.

Sampled at Bockyhorsey’s Bocky Bash on 7-5-08. Cloudy dark amber pour with a small light head. Sweet caramel malt and red berry aroma. Flavor is berries and caramel with just a touch of chocolate. Creamy on the palate. Very nice.

Sampled at Bocky Bash on 7-5-08. Good raspberry aroma. Murky brown body with not much of a head. For me got a strwberry fruit flavor and milky caramel creamy candy as well. Glad some one brought this was about ready to give up the cat in a trade for this one.

(500) 187 mL bottle from the brewery, 2007 vintage. Pours brown/amber with red/purple hues. Very little head, a mild fizzy puff out of the bottle dissipating to a washer size ring in the center of the glass (weird). Nose is chocolate covered raspberries and strawberries, mild blueberry and sweet port wine aroma. Taste is sweet berry, rasp and straw, with a nice chocolate flavor. Fruity and sweet like a port wine, mild grape and some blueberry. Lots of alcohol hotness and flavor lingering well into the after. Some oaky characteristics. Dry with a balanced bitter. This really seems to be a heckuva lot more potent that the 11.7% on the bottle. It has a slightly carbonated character, but mouth feel is more like a nice whiskey or wine. Very solid offering. Like, unbelievably solid.

Bottle suprisingly found in store in Grand Rapids. 2007 vintage. Unbelievable beer. Pours very heavy with a small head. Strong aroma of raspberries with slight chocolate hidden behind the raspberry aroma. Flavor of raspberry and chocolate with a slight finish of caramel and fruits. Almost like a meal.

Bottle sampled at the 7/5/08 Bocky Bash locals tasting. Pours a cloudy brown with minimal off white head. Nose is caramel, raspberry cheesecake, toffee and brown sugar. Taste is chocolate, caramel, light raspberry and molasses. Medium, creamy mouth feel. Was expecting more raspberry/chocolate in the aroma and taste. Not bad though.