Kuhnhenn Raspberry Eisbock

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

What a small bottle for the big hype. Thanks zuluflyboy for the share. Pours red-yellow with a barely noticeable off-white head. Nose is boozy berry, vanilla, cherry, sugar, and brown sugar. Raspberries of a different color are in the nose. Flavor is vanilla, fresh, hairy raspberries, no extra sweetness, vanilla and pieces of yeast. Flavors are very complex and blended- overall a very balanced beer. I know it would cost more, but how much nicer would it be to have a bigger bottle.

So the smell is nice, not sure why this is considered a beer though. Beautiful taste of fresh raspberries and little else. Cloyingly sweet and difficult to drink much of. 2007 Vintage.

A: Not a real site to be honest with you. Pours a reddish brown hue with a very wimpy head. S: The appearence left me wondering, but at first whiff I knew I had a winner. Holy shit this one is beautiful. Think freshberries drizzled with caramel and hot fudge. I have not had a dessert in quite sometime with an aroma this wonderful. T: After smelling this one, I had to dive in and give it a sip. WOW!!! I have had eisbock’s before and I was some what luke warm to them. Well this is a totally different. The flavors are some of the most complex I have ever tasted. Think Fresh Ripe Indiana Raspberries, Wonderful Creamy Caramel, and the Best Belgian Chocolate known to man mixed together and put in a bottle. That is what this one is. Soo complex, soo wonderful, soo good. The flavors are so dynamic yet seperate. They do not compete with each other at all. M: Thick and syrupy with ample carbonation. D: Very little indication of the ABV. The flavor makes you wish this one came by the bomber. Overall: This is one had I been after for quite sometime. I was glad to acquire it, and even happier with the first taste. The flavors and aromas are hard to beat. Most brewers out there try to replicate world class brews. There is a reason no one else it putting out something like this one. This beer is world class and can not be duplicated. No doubt about it this is one of the best beers in the world. Kuhnhenn hit a grand slam with this one. GET IT AT ANY COST!!!

Finally.....I had to wait this long for a beer in my own state?!?!?! well the time has come. Huge aroma of what elase.....Raspberries and caramel. Awesome deeeeeeeeeep red/mahogany color. no head with slight lacing arona the edges. The Flavor is outta this world! Huge Caramale and the raspberry only slightly come through. The caaramel is outrageous. The alcohol rears it head initally but fade quickly. The finish is off the charts.......this is were the chocolate intertwines with the caramel and a trace of raspberry let you know what you are drinking. Is it worth the price for the little bottle....i dont know but I will see if I can get a few more bottles. And they would never come out except the best and most rare occasions. ubeliveable.

Bottle ’07 thanks to pantanap: Poured a hazy brown with a thin jello head. Aroma is raspberry and caramel. Taste is almost assorted chocolate, there was chocolate, caramel, and raspberry. Very interesting beer and hide the alcohol very well.

Crushed with CaryTheDude and Jakebra. Musty nose with raspberry and tootsy roll. Flavor is chocolate, raspberry, vanilla, oak. Really interesting and complex. I was really intrigued by this one and enjoyed it a lot.

187ml bottle, 2007 vintage, shared by CaptainCougar. Hazy red-brown with a small head. Sweet raspberry and malt aromas with a lightly aged quality. tastes like a rich, alcoholic, chocolate-raspberry truffle. Thick, with low carbonation. Tasty stuff and a nice treat, but I’ve never been wild about the dessert category on the whole.

187ml bottle, thanks to CaptainCougar. Red brown color, no real head. Choco-ras aroma, very deep. Smooth white chocolaty thickness, no carbonation. I get lots of vanilla in it. Lots of sweet raspberry and caramel sweetness. I think this is the best "dessert" beer I’ve ever had. Delicious.