Leikeim Original Landbier

Brewed by Familien-Brauhaus Leikeim
Style: Zwickel/Keller/Landbier
Altenkunstadt, Germany

Serve in Lager glass, Stein

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500 ml flip-top bottle from Wasanas in Germany. Pours a clear light gold-yellow color with a soft foamy white head.. Aromas of grass and hops. Taste is light sour fruit, caramel, and malt. Palate is a mellow hop end.

Bottle. Pale gold with a thin white head. Aroma of veg and thin floral. Flavour starts dry with a light syrupy malt. finish is slight metallic.

Gold colour with a white head. Fruity aromas (apricot) and some spice. Flavour is dry initially and then sweeter with some malt present.

Bottle from Getränkeland, Hvidovre. Yellow colour with a white head. Aroma and flavour of malt and hops with spicy notes.

cooked vegetables, basement aromas, citrus, herbs, cereal, roasty, golden, cloudy, white foam, rocky head, medium sweetness, very bitter, heavily sour, creamy, full body, flat, long finish, bitter,

Sorry for the german rating, but this is a lousy rating from my "newbie" time (2007-2009), and it’s not worth of being translated. I just added it for the statistics, and to complete my backlog!
Testnotizen: Goldgelb im Glas, die mittelporige Krone ist leider schnell weg. Geruch würzig, leicht hopfig. Antrunk kernig würzig, leicht herb. Der Abgang hallt gut getreidig nach. Schmeckt lecker und irgendwie auch landlich. Sehr gut gelungen und vollstens ausgewogen, das Ganze!

Green bean nose, with emphasis on the actual bean, quite shitty. Crystal clear golden, medium white head, good lacing. Grainy then beany, tangy. An awful lot of beans remain on the palate. Bitter grass present in the finish as well. I haven’t had a lot of landbiers, but I don’t like this one much.

The beer pours a perfectly clear golden color with lots of bubbles and a small but well retained head that leaves good lacing on the glass.

The aroma is lots of bread dough, light green apple and earthy hops, all together it’s sort of sweet smelling.

The flavor is bready with some citrusy hops. The beer is lightly bitter and somewhat sweet, the malt is fairly clean and bright. The beer is a tad bit buttery and certainly has some green apple flavor in there. Obviously there are a couple of identifiable flaws here but by the end it seemed hoppier than it was appley or buttery, and I really did enjoy this more than not.

Euro Market, Queens 500ml ($3.49): Pours a golden color with a white head. Grassy, skunky, and almost a sour aroma going on there. Kind of watery at the front, but goes into some nice mild hops coupled with good bready malts. Leaves a little bit of an aftertaste. Pretty good, but nothing special.

Sörspecialista, Budapest. Világosabb aranysárga színe van, belül enyhén opálos. Habja igen méretes, krémes és elég jól tartja magát. Illata igen malátás, kissé fanyar, citrusos, kissé virágos és zöld növényes. Sok malátával nyit az íze is, vannak benne citrusok, zöld növényes zamatok, élesztő, kis dohosság és egy kanálnyi komló. Könnyű teste van és mérsékelten szénsavas. Utóíze keserédes és enyhén fanyar, kissé száraz. Rendben van, de nincs benne semmi különleges, amire visszaemlékeznénk.

50cl swing top pours clear water gold with bright white head. The modest aroma emits some spicy hops, floral hops and a background of vague sweetness. The taste is kind of lagery yeast and sugary sweet malts mixing with modest levels of floral and spicy hops.