Kuhnhenn Raspberry Eisbock

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

Big thanks to Honkeybra for hooking me up with this. Crushed with Honkeybra and Jakebra. Musty raspberry nose with tons of character. Flavor: chocolate-covered raspberries with much more I can’t even name. Incredibly complex, unique and full-bodied as hell. In my unqualified opinion, this brew is pretty amazing, but NG Belgian Red is still the best.

[2004 Bottle] send by Cletus. So I was expecting a lot from this beer based on the reviews, but found it to be less than overwhelming. Pours a still chalky brown. Aroma is lots of tart raspberries and a bit of caramel and some oxidation. Flavor is chocolate covered raspberry fruit snacks, some chalky caramel malt, a touch of alcohol, and some oxidation. Mouthfeel was surprisingly thin for a beer of this magnitude. Is it really supposed to be like this? I’m not sure what all the fuss is about.

Explosive raspberry aroma even before the beer leaves the bottle. Clear red-brown color and the head is just a souvenir. This incredible aroma is more likely too emane from a Chambord liqueur than from a beer. Very sweet but not too syrupy, well balance for such an extreme brew. Is it really a beer... I don’t know but I like it.

bottle 2007: pours a dark berry red colour with no head. aroma is great full of tart raspberries, slight leathery earthness, and plenty of malt also with some maple syrup as a sweetness. just an awesome aroma. slight chocolate at the very end of the aroma. flavour has quite a bit of chocolate and a little bit of roast that makes the chocolate seem like a dark kind. the raspberries float in after that and then a nice earthy root flavour just a fantastic beer.

2004 vintage. Appearance: Pours a brackish, blackish-purple body with no head beyond a few, large bubbles. Smell: Finely expressive nose of macerated, tart-scented black raspberry pulp and supporting earthy notes of cherry pipe tobacco, unsweetened chocolate, tree bark, molasses, and maple. An inkling of oxidation, too. Taste: Beyond the berry, there are tastes of baking chocolate, blackstrap molasses, maple syrup, and a few choice hunks of gnarled licorice root. You even get a pinch of aromatic tobacco. There’s a fair share of oxidation evident. Also, I detect a tiny, tiny touch of roast. There’s a profusion of vinous raspberry flavor that is, at times, a bit tart and medicinal. The alcohol presence, while noticeable, isn’t ever obtrusive. A bit of warmth in the slow, leisurely finish. Mouthfeel: Medium-bodied. No carbonation. Drinkability: A pleasing, pleasant brew, though I would like to try a different, more recent vintage sometime. In summation, it reminds me of that Chambord Liqueur you get in the "Holy Hand Grenade" bottle. I hear up in Michigan it’s regarded as a local celebrity of sorts.

2004 vintage bottle shared by MatSciGuy - thanks man. Pours a cloudy brownish tone with little to now head. Nose of chocolate, raspberry and plenty of alcohol. These smells carried through on the taste but they seemed to have waned a bit. It was warming on the tongue with some mild bitterness. An OK beer but not one of my favorites.

Thanks Bobby91w for the trade. After watching my Illinois basketball team lose tonight after scoring 33 against Penn State at home...I needed to crack open a good beer. I wish I had ten of these to forget the last two hours of my life. Pours ruby/pink when held up to the light, which no head. Aroma of caramel, raspberry, and chocolate. Sweet and sticky, this beer tastes fantastic and is truly an after dinner drink. Great raspberry flavor.

Bottles thanks to glouglouburp and MrChopin. Thanks guys! Aroma of rasberry, chocolate and caramel. Tastes like a raspberry truffle dipped in Angel’s Share. Wonderful stuff as an after dinner desert.