Kuhnhenn Raspberry Eisbock

This is one ridiculous beer.... Picked this one up in a trade from Styles.. Can’t thank you enough, Chris.... Murky, ruby-amber pour into my flute and immediately I’m overwhelmed with the aroma of chocolate covered raspberries wafting out of the glass. Incredibly enticing smell.... Very sweet, tart and fruity taste that slowly melds into a sweet dark chocolate finish that I can’t seem to get enough of. Again, just an incredible experience.. Thanks again to Styles for helping me out on this brew...

2004 - Pours a slightly hazy amberish brown, with no head. Wisps of small bubbles. Smells like a sweet raspberry chocolate torte. Full of fruity frosting, this has a very sweet smell, with smooth chocolate through and through with some caramel as well. Flavor is a perfect balance of rich toffee, chocolate covered cherries, and caramel dipped apples. Wonderfully bittersweet and sour raspberry puree. Delicious, but comes somewhat cloying as it warms.

Aroma: is red, ripe raspberry, full bodied, almost port-like, but not quite there yet. Instead it is a rich caramel accent to the raspberry. And a touch of leather, but I might be reaching. Taste is sweet raspberry, touches of alcohol and caramel. Palate is slightly fizzy, rich, cloying raspberry caramel sweetness, followed by a dull alcohol that is only familiar because of the carbonation. Overall, with about 3 to 5 years on this, this beer would be world class. As it is, it is merely outstanding. 848416

Cloudy reddish-brown body with a smaller off-white head. Aroma of chocolate some raspberries, raisins, caramel, and a hint of citrus. Flavou is rich with chocolate, thick honey, and raspberry syrup. Very unique and tasty.

2004 Vintage. In word.....AMAZING. The most decadent beer you could ever get.....its like the most lucious dessert you have tasted. Aroma of raspberries, dark chocolate and wine. Flavors of mellow raspberries, dark chocolate, caramel, and almond. The mellow raspberries (no doubt from the three years of aging) give this beer a truly unique character. They are not overpowering, but a always on the edge of the palate, complimenting every aspect of the beer. Alcohol is very warming, but not overpowering in the flavor. Overall, an absolute dream...like biting into the moistest, most succulent chcolate cake ever.

Sampled on-tap. First off, I can understand why this comes in 6.5 ounce bottles. Second off, wow. Pours a ruby tint with absolutely no head. Nose is total raspberry funk with what seems like almost a plastic type of character to it. Flavor is strong raspberry with thick malts. I never really felt that alcohol was present flavor wise. Feel is a bit thicker on liquid and low on carbonation. I also get a slight gritty kind of edge. Not so much that it ruins the experience, but enough to notice. I kind of take it like it is one step below being too much. If it was pushed any further, it wouldn’t work. But overall, it does work since it is so damn unique. I have to say that two ounces of this would probably be good enough for me unless I had a long while to really dwell on the bottle or in this case what was served to me off the tap.

Nice color with not much head at all. What I expected. Very strong aroma of fruity raspberries and alcohol and sugar. Taste like a alcoholic tootsie pop. Taste is smooth and sweet. Fruit, not all rasp. Maybe some cherry or plums along with some honey. Definitely lives up to the hype. The only one I had two samples of.

++++ Re Rate 5 May 2009 ++++
187 ml bottle from mj. 2007 Vintage. Pour is murky brown, orange and copper. Only the thinnest amount of tan head, that quickly retreats to the edges of the glass. Aroma of big rick mulling brown sugar, along with dark chocolate, caramel maltiness and faint raspberry. Also a bit of Sherry warmth, certainly far less boozy than the last time I had this. Nose is big, rich - really inviting. Taste is immediately huge raspberry fruit sweetness, more of the caramel chocolate maltiness and a big warming Sherry taste. The chocolate gets. Dusty cocoa taste to it during the long finish. The age seems to have flattened out some of the fruit tart / sweetness I remember on this. Its more of a clovey spice now. Palate is big, bold - almost entirely flat. As mentioned, the finish is long, dry and warming. Thanks for sending me this one Mike, the last time I had this it was young and under less than ideal circumstances. Nice to revisit with a whole bottle. I enjoyed it about the same, though in different ways. Overall, a nice sipper. For a beer of its heft, it is remarkably smooth. (9,4,8,4,17 - 4.2)

++++ Original Rating 28 Jan 2008 ++++
2007 bottle shared by beastiefan2k. Pour is a cloudy / hazy orange-amber with zero head whatsoever. Aroma of brown sugar, cinnamon, malt, the sour raspberry fruit and burnt sugar. Taste of raspberry candy fruit, burned brown sugar, big, big flavor. It was tart, sour, yet somehow refined and rounded. Just giant flavor all around. Really tasty and interesting, just so different. Thanks for sharing Eugene. (8,4,9,4,17 - 4.2)