New Glarus Unplugged Eisbock

Bonus bottle from Cletus, Thanks John.. Pours dark brown with a thin off white head.. Aroma is cherries, raisins and twizzlers.. Flavor is dark fruits, raisins, toffee and burnt wood with a dark chocolate bitterness.. Medium body with medium carbonation.. When I took the first sip this one made me say wow.. Super easy to drink. Good Brew!

Seems aroma is the same as the Uff-da bock. Sweet and malty some burnt and nutty aromas come out when swirled. Mouthfeel is watery and lacks carbonation. Flavor is a little watery but makes this eisbock very drinkable. The alcohol is almost non-existant. There is caramel, wood, toffee, and sweet malt in the flavor. This one is good, hopefully they brew it again since I have no more.

12oz nice bonus from my pal Jason, thank ughmash. Pours brownish black with a tan ring. Nose is sweet rich and thick smelling. Lost of molasses and big old richness. Taste is sweet and a bit cloying, but good overall, not the best eisbock or the best unplugged but its tasty.

From JPDIPSO. I was hesitant to even open this, l have been very averse to big beers recently, barleywines and impy stouts have not been my thing recently. But I need to drink something (well i don’t "need to" but I want to) and the only new thing in my fridge that came in a 12oz bottle is this (again thanks John). So I pour this and it looks like a strong beer, almost no head with a dark copper thick body; so far everything is coming out formulaic. If I agitate it a bit some head forms. Then I sniff the damn thing and my attitude changes completely. Its the aromas I want, which when improperly handled come off crappy (basically bad brewers can’t do this well, oh and apparently calling someone a bad brewer is a bad thing to do, ok then, less good brewers can’t do this). It is burnt, thick, alcoholic malt blast. But not in a bad way or over the top, just strong and awesome. This is the kind of aromas I fell in love with when it came to barleywines/strong ales and the kind of aromas that "less than good" breweries just screw up and make me hate them. There is some oxidation in there, which you cannot fight when you ice a beer, but it works beautifully in the profile of the beer. Ok, now lets move to the flavor (of love). It’s actually not as stong as the aroma indicates. Still that burnt German lager-ness that comes off almost ale-like because of the icing. Lagered and well attenuated yet sweet caramel, now that is a conundrum if I ever wrote one. And its actually rather easy drinking, that’s what you get with an iced lager. I mean all the flavor, the light oxidation, with the alcohol and lagered sweetness is there, yet I can easily put it down. No burn from the alcohol. Fun stuff, like it a lot.
12oz bottle, Regenboog tall, tuliped, chalice glass.

Bought 6-pk in Wi. Wished I would have gotten more. Appearance - dark red/orange Nose - Dark fruit, toffee, roasted nuts. Flavor - small cherry-pie notes with roated grain. Soft hops ending Great beer!

2002 bottle. Pours brown, like tree bark. Small brow head ringing the snifter. Aroma is of ripe fruit, caramel, toffee, molasses and chocolate. Flavor is of English toffee and a bit old closet mustiness. Decent palate and drinkable. One of my favorite Unplugged creations.

The first of New Glarus’ Unplugged brews. Pours a dark midnight red color with an off white head that quickly disappeared but left a ring around the glass. Others noticed a lack of carbonation, but is bubbling up like a fountain, never seen this before. Smell is of burnt molasses, brown sugar, cherries, and currants. Very sweet, caramel greets me first, with a little bit of toffee, and even some bitterness comes into play. Dry finish, but has a nice lingering taste of plum and cherry. Nice mouthfeel, it was medium-high carbonation, medium to full bodied, but I expected it to be thicker. Very drinkable, I wish they would make this more often, or even just one more time I suppose would be great.

12oz Bottle. 2002. Lightly funky chewy smoke, salted caramel, and sugar. A bit of age. Pours a mature raisin-colored brown, with light golden. Flavor shows age immediately. Light raisins, port, and old brown sugar. A bit of alcohol, dust and nuts. Lager yeast. Residual malt build. Salty. Still some good carbonation. Interesting, but past its prime. I sense that this possible could have been expose to heat. Thanks Steve!