Kuhnhenn Raspberry Eisbock

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

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.

Red brown with a tiny tan head. Sweet raspberry, malt, vineous aroma. Sweet with alcohol in the flavour, a dessert wine like raspberry flavour, but it all ends very well balanced despite the excessive alcohol.

2007 vintage (Thanks HailSquishFace). Pours a cloudy medium brown color with some reddish notes. Pretty much no head at all. Aroma is subdued raspberries, some bittersweet chocolate, malty notes and a little vanilla. Flavor is somewhat sour, with a fair bit of the malts, some mellow raspberry and some wood notes. Certainly a unique brew that I was very glad to get to try.

’07 bottle. Dark brown pour with red hue and a faint beige head. Aroma is raspberries but not sour smelling, caramel, some woody notes, vanilla, very hard to describe. Flavor is much the same big smooth caramel, raspberries in the background it definitely isn’t a fruit beer, vanilla, a touch of oak. What a freakin hard beer to describe it’s so complex. The ’04 I had aged wonderfully and was a 5, I can’t wait to see what these do. Let this age!

18.5 cL bottle, trade with ygtbsm94. Pours clear and golden dark orange to amber with a quickly gone tan head. Dark malty and mild raspberry aroma. Flavour is mild caramel malty with a delicate and dry raspberry flavour on top. Shows a dry and almost woody raspberry flavour before the finish. Dry almost woody finish. Sugarish finish with a light raspberry note. Complex brew yet I don’t see this a top 50 beer.

Bottle at Toms Glasgow tasting 2 ... 2007 bottle ... Deep red ... sweet woody toffee and vanilla nose... Its ICE CREAM ... with a little raspberry in its linger ... Alcohol is a bit too prevelant ... Its huge huge vanilla... quite thick and viscos... wondefull mouth feel... 4.3Tk2 ... Deep red brown ... very sweet valilla and rasperberry nose ... again lots of vanilla and raspberry in flavour ... low carbonation ... very syrupy.4.1