 Quake1028 (625), Tampa, Florida, USA
Mar 16, 2008
Courtesy of Degarth. Thank you, sir.
Dark plum, bruised body....swirly tan head....nose is full of raspberry or currant, cough syrup, way too medicinal for me to handle....picks up even more on the flavor profile....tons of heat running through this thing as well, this is a monster...very viscous, heavy and sticky....finish is boozy cough syrup and fleshy red berries....
Glouglouburp (1876), Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Jul 15, 2008 In short: Some kind of extra-sweet and extra-alcoholised fruit beer concentrate. Gross.
How: Tap at brewpub
The look: Murky brow body topped by a large tan head
In long: What an odd beer this is, and I use the word beer in a very loose way. Flavours were an overload of cassis, an extreme sugary sweetness, some sort of chemical/mercurochrome flavour, a light milk-chocolate tastes, cough syrup, strong alcohol presence, extra-sweet jam and fruit flavours more reminiscent of fruits concentrate than fresh fruits. Overall this felt like short of cheap hard-liquor in a glass of cheap extra-sweet fruit beer. That beer is tenacious indeed, my cousin Louis can be tenacious too with girls, and they’re both gross.
bp (256), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Jul 12, 2008 Draft at Hop Devil Grill: pours a dark reddish brown, sweet aroma, taste was sweet with dark fruit and licorice, I really enjoyed this one.
darn1207 (197), Tallahassee, Florida, USA
Jul 11, 2008 on tap at hop devil in manhattan. it was happy hour - so we got this half price at the same time as Kuhnhenn Rasberry Eisbock... which was a lot to take all at once. pours deep brown with thin tan head. aroma of cherry, perfume and light caramel. strong fruity sweetness undercut with sour tartness. prune also. only a little of the alcohol shows. long slightly dry bitter finish. contrary to popular opinion, I actually liked this a bit better than the raspberry eisbock. wacky stuff. just too sweet for me overall. K-6
GRM (792), Aylmer, Quebec, Canada
Jun 26, 2008 Sample, savoured at the Mondial de la bière on May 30 2008; eye: burgundy, tiny ring of beige head, clear, no effervescence; nose: concentrated black currant, powerful, candied fruits, molasses, liquorice; mouth: black currant, molasses, soya sauce, malt, liquorice, finale in concentrated black currant with soya sauce, rather sweet, not much carbonation, full body, bubbling on the tip of the tongue; overall: quite good
FRANÇAIS
Échantillon, savourée au Mondial de la bière le 30 mai 2008; oeil : bourgogne, petit anneau de mousse beige, claire, pas d’effervescence; nez : cassis concentré, puissant, fruits confits, mélasse, réglisse; bouche : cassis, mélasse, sauce soya, malt, réglisse, finale en cassis concentré avec sauce soya, plutôt sucré, peu carbonatée, corsée, pétillement su’l’bout d’la langue; en résumé : pas mal bon
Stine (1279), St. Paul, Minnesota, USA
Jun 20, 2008 Poured from a 12 oz. bottle. Muddy mahogany hue. Bursting currants over a sandy cookie dough aroma; toasty, alcoholic, and framed in an odd, dirty, vine-and-stem kind of fruit character. Flavor is a burnt caramel and raspberry cough syrup oppressive searing sweetness. Currant liqueur. A sparkling, alcoholic chocolate touch tempering it lightly. Hazelnut skin bitterness; too weak to make impact against the wash of sugar, which is monolithic in intense, rum-like, hot cane sweetness. Full body is hot and waxy; sticky sweetness fattening up and bearing down as warmth affects it, finishing on honey, heat, and syrupy fruit, and dried out with alcohol.
Never a contemplative form of port-like digestif sweetness in this currant and caramel liquor; rather, a rushed, overripe, reckless sugar character that, when not unbearably cloying, tends to be medicinal and sharp, though alcohol never seems too bullyish. It’s just that all that sugar seems so bombastic, and seemingly for its own sake. Thanks Mike!
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