Kuhnhenn Raspberry Eisbock

A Mes rate: Bottle at Tom’s UGT Pt. 2.
I have lusted after this beer for a very very long time. It was certainly the beer I was most excited about at the tasting. Shame it was then that while it thought everything else was excellent I really couldn’t get into the aroma.In fact initially I gave it a 4 but it grew on me a bit. It’s just spoiled for me by the thick and sickly caramel malt. Anyway, aroma moan over. It’s a beautiful looking awesome ruby red / brown colour. Flavour is gorgeous. A bit of chocolate, lovely fruit, awesome light sourness and barrel notes. The raspberries come on strong for the finish with the only obvious alcohol being a pleasing warmth in the belly and a lingering sting on the tongue. Such a shame that the aroma lets it down otherwise I would be doing cartwheels over this one.

This is an excellent beer from the infamous brothers in Warren. These guys are the guts of the brewing industry. Always trying to out due themselves and never getting comfortable. This is their gem but not their greatest work. Its full of chocolate malt raspberry taste with a little head. A true sipper cheers to this special occasion brew.

Tasted 4/5/08. 187ml bottle. 2007 vintage. Filtered with a honey amber hue. Big nose. Aromas of raspberries and vanilla. Syrupy and woody notes. Full bodied with a big palate! Wonderfull brew, but not too overt on the raspberry flavor. Sticky long and lingering. Nice alcohol burn. Cocoa and chocolate undertones. Slightly nutty. Woody and honey. Toffee flavors. Mild slick effervescence. Vanilla notes. Wood aged? Total dessert beer! Subtle corny note. So smooth! Low acid. Absolutely stellar! Good burn mixed with the residual sugar sweetness. Damn fine! Thanks Ric!

Bottle from my first RB trade courtesy of Pantanap - thanks Kan!! 2004 vintage, so this puppy has got some age on her. Bottle made a pop sound when opened, so I’m feeling a bit better about oxidization issues. Pours a ruddy brown color that, well, sort of looks like swill, but you know this means business nevertheless. Almost no head to speak of. Aroma is gorgeous...loads of raspberry, caramel, sweet chocolate blended together with some roasted nuts in the background...a unique aroma that is outstanding! Flavor is more complex than I expected...the raspberry almost takes a backseat to strong caramel and milk chocolate accents, but the raspberry comes through at the end and in a nice way...heavy on the sweetness but stopping well short of being cloying. Picking up some orange flavors...and almost gives me the vibe that there is some Grand Mariner mixed in. Alcohol flavor is still prevalent after 4 years. Finish is surprisingly sour and bordering on acidic, so I’m thinking something kicked in over time, and there is a good dose of carbonation here still. Looking forward to trying a 2007 that is ’fresh’ to see how it compares!

[To celebrate 1200th rating - courtesy of yespr, Cnudde tasting @ Ulfborg] Dark reddish with tiny short lasting head. Sweet aroma with raspberries and caramel notes. Sweet and rather vinious flavor with raspberries, caramel and vanilla.

The Fonefan/Brugmansia Cnudde tasting. Courtesy of Yespr. Vintage 2007, and we taste it March 2008. The color is very beautiful red and the aroma has nice notes of sweet, fermented raspberries and hints of oak. The flavour is sweet with notes of raspberries, malt, oak and it has a nice fruit acidity that balances the sweetness nicely. In the finish I find a dry grapefruit. It’s an interesting and nice beer, that hides the ABV well.

Bottle at lucky piere’s party shack disco dance off tasting. Alround rating: This is one of the most shocking things i have came across in the beer world. Aroma is bursting with the most intence and quite awful european strong lager known to man, only thing that saves it is chocolate malt, that seems out of place. Taste is cloying, packed with corn syrup, theres some fake rasberry and bittering iodine bitterness. I was really really taken back by this as i was soo looking forward to it, perhaps more than any other beer at the tasting and feel as though iv over rated it at this score. Very disapointing.

Bottle at Magic dave6’s disco dance tasting. Nose is sweet concentrated raspberry, very sweet. Mouth is very sweet raspberry taste. Lasts slightly malty, a little bit of sour alcohol, very good, very viscous, with some chocolate. Great, little bit creamy, bloody great.