Kuhnhenn Raspberry Eisbock

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

6 oz. bottle, ’04 vintage - many thanks to Eyedrinkale for this trade! Pours a thick, opaque, reddish brown with no head. Aroma is very sweet, raspberry cream, fruity, tawny port-like, chocolate raspberries. Flavor is sweet, sweet like dried raspberry, rich caramel malts, hints of chocolate, pungent notes and definite alcohol presence. Full body and subtle carbonation.

No head on a dark brown body. Nose is raspberry and figs. Alcohol is visible, and there is a slight medicinal note. Flavour is complex, dr pepper and figs, plums and candied dates. Many mediterian fruits and tobacco. Warms to a vanillia. Firm cleaning palate. Stong on rummed fruits, and very light on chocolate.

Bottle. Nose-chocolate covered strawberries. Body-dark red with a thin ring of bubbles. Taste-tastes EXACTLY like fig newtons with a hint of chocolate. Notes of fresh figs, milk chocolate, cherry/strawberry jam, dark sticky fruits, honey, warm bread, slight tobacco. Very thick, sweet, and sticky.

Huge thanks to my buddy RLB for sharing his last bottle with me. Aroma was nice mixture of raspberry, chocolate and caramel. Poured rubyized dark brown with a fizzy cap. Flavor was as advertised in the nose, a choclatey tart raspberry swirl of joy. The palate was sweet and crisply enjoyable. Overall I will anxiously await some more if it becomes available.

6 oz bottle, 2004 vintage, via walleye. Pours a slightly hazy deep garnet color with a fizzy pink tinged head that quickly disappeared. Deep tart raspberry aroma with chocolate, light alcohol, caramel, and a little port. Very nice natural overripe raspberry flavor with a hearty chocolate malt backdrop. A little sherry or port-like notes on the finish. A little touch of alcohol on the finish as well, but overall amazingly well hidden for a 10% plus beer. Full bodied and almost syrupy mouthfeel were it not for the lively carbonation. Very enjoyable, not the super sweet fruit bomb that I was expecting. I could have gone for a 12 ounce serving of this for sure.

04 bottle - Crimson and purple with no head to speak of. Aroma and flavor are absolutely one in the same. Rich milk chocolate raspberry truffle. I got nothing else for you. Medium to full bodied and slick, soft carbonation, sweet finish. Frickin amazing stuff. Thanks for sharing Jacco (dutch70).

Massive map props to Chuck for a sample! Has a nice deep violet body, with a beige head. Has a very good chocolate/raspberry aroma to it. Has a very good flavor, definite chocolate and caramel to it, and no unpleasant alcohol flavor for something with a higher alcohol content. Good body and the right amount of carbonation. Overall, very, very good.

2004, 6.3 oz bottle. Pours a reddish purple with a off-white head. Aroma of raspberry cream and chocolate. The flavor found mush of the same with a little caramel also. It was like drinking chocolate covered raspberries. Medium to full body, sweet, and creamy. The ultimate after dinner drink. Thanks to Springslicker for sharing this at the Tennessee Tasting!!