Schneider Aventinus Weizen-Eisbock

Brewed by Weissbierbrauerei G. Schneider & Sohn
Style: Weizen Bock
Kelheim, Germany

Serve in Dimpled mug, Stein, Weizen

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Fantastic nose, with depth and complexity. Pours a muddy brown colour and the flavours are gorgeously rich and full bodied. Has a little sweetness up front, but balanced nicely. A dangerous 12% beer as it hides the alcohol very well. A few sips and rosy cheeked!

Pours a very cloudy and very dark brown colour with a tall frothy off-white head. Aroma is sweet wheat with dark fruit, banana, caramel. Taste is also sweet with wheat, caramel, banana and other dark fruits leading to a sweet fruity finish. Only a slight alcohol burn on the way down. Damn nice stuff.

Bottle. Pours slightly cloudy brown with a light tan head that dissipates quickly with no lacing. Aroma of sweet wheat with some alcohol notes as well. Sweet to the taste, with wheat, alcohol and unidentified fruitiness. Mouthfeel is rich and creamy.

Brown 33cl bottle dated 2008, number 19309. Best before 30th July 2013, drank July 2009. Poured into a half litre Franziskaner Weissbier glass because I know this can be a lively bugger sometimes! Lively it was, but the glass contained it. Cloudy, murky and foreboding looking body, a sort of grubby brown, teak wood red colour. A good firm tan head sat on top, looked interesting more than inviting. Alcohol and a fizzy pop (Vimto) smell to it, some malts in the mix too. A sweet vanilla and banana aroma also came along as the beer warmed up. Christmas pudding of a beer, plums, rich fruitcake, a faint hint of cigars and smoking jackets. The sort of beer to have by a roaring fire on a winters evening while the wife prepares a supper of home made soup with crusty brown bread. Very pleasant winters beer, brought back from a Berlin beer trip, glad I found it.

Deep dark colour with small head. Aroma is malt, wheat, dark fruits. Flavour is is dark fruits, bit boozy, nicely sweet. Have to retest later, have one older bottle.

Pretty good. Didn't taste super fresh. tasted malty to me Bottle from wine expo 22 ---Rated via Beer Buddy for iPhone

Creamy and smooth with a lot caramel and raisins. I’d say it’s like a mix between a porter, a quadruple and a doppelbock. Smells amazing - very sweet. Jonathan loves it, it’s thick and syrupy for me, but it is really really good. One of our top favorite beers.

Pours with a huge fizzy head that subsides fairly quickly to no head at all. Nose is sweet and raisiny. Color is a hazy brown. Taste is heavy and sweet, almost cloying, but not quite. Body is lighter than I thought it would be, but the texture is sticky. It finishes sweet and stays in the mouth for a long time, with an after taste of alcohol. It almost reminds me of a dessert wine or maybe a port (?) I’m a hop head, so this is way out of my comfort zone, but still very enjoyable for the right occasion.

Lots of brown sugar on the nose, also detect a little apricot. Very rich but invites you back for more. Great texture and level of carbonation. Will definitely have this one again!

330ml bottle into a pint glass. Pours a very dark and hazy brown with a thin ring of carbonation that holds around the edge of the glass. Aroma is full of molasses and brown sugar along with figs and prunes. Not really any alcohol detectable but plenty of malt. The flavor explodes with dark fruit and molasses. Raisins and figs are most prominent. These transition into wood and pipe tobacco finishing out with a touch of coffee. Alcohol is present as can be expected with a beer of this strength, but is never overpowering. Mouthfeel is full and quite thick, almost syrupy. Overall this is really great beer. The flavors are especially concentrated compared to the standard Aventinus and it is really quite drinkable.