Schneider Aventinus Weizen-Eisbock

Bottle Number: 2008 / 11734 -- $4.29 bottle from Sherlock’s in Marietta, Georgia. Appearance: Pours an opaque, medium brown body with a thin, short-lived, off-white head. Smell: Raisins, fresh figs, and sliced bananas swimming in melted caramel squares and topped with toasted wheat and spices. Slight sniff of booze. Taste: Toasted wheat malts and super rich maltiness represented by a slathering of homemade caramel sauce. Reduced raisin and fig fruitiness. Slight touches of banana-flavored taffy, bubble-gum, and earthy spices. Small hint of licorice. Very, very minor hop character with a faint, feeble bit of bitterness. Warming ethanol alcohol presence. Caramel-coated, liqueur-like finish. Mouthfeel: Medium-full body. Medium carbonation. Chewy mouthfeel. Drinkability: Sip, savor, repeat. Recommend. Super sweet and grotesquely unbalanced in a rich dessert kinda way. The ABV is blended in rather well. Delightful!

Crushed with Jakebra. Fuckin a. Fruity nose. Almost tastes like a quad. Damn. Tickles the tongue. Fuckin, one of the sexiest I’ve had in a long time.

Dark brown beer with large and velvet-like beige head. Aroma is bootilicious, quite sweet and you can find bananas, dark fruits, yeast and alcohol. Flavour is similar than aroma, but it is more simple and not so sweet anymore. Quite rich of carbonation with warming alcohol balanced the full-bodied taste. Aventinus Weizen Eisbock is quite similar than normal Aventinus, but it is more warmer, less wheat and much more “demanding”.

Aroma of slightly roasted wheat, banana, hints of chocolate, dark sugar, alcohol and a lots of spices. Sweet flavor is syrupy, alcohol, wheat, banana and some chocolate also. Nice smooth and very warming palate.

2008 bottle. Dark ruby, small and foamy pale head. Quite sahti-like, sweet syrupy aroma, banana, glove and herb liqueurish alcohol. Spicy, syrupy sweet flavor, alcohol, salty liquorice in the herbal finish. Medium to full bodied, strong, even spritzy carbonation. Tastes like a good, sophisticated sahti, but not as balanced the basic aventinus. The ABV really shows, at least when this young.

Bottled (from Alko, Vaasa). Deep murky reddish brown colour, mediumsized off-white fluffy head. Aroma is fruits, banana, alcohol, raisins and some mild spiced notes .Flavour is wheat, banana, alcohol, some fruits and also raisins. Mild yeastyness too. Really nice and wellbalanced.

Bottle shared by Ang. Lots of fruitiness, warming alcohol, sweet raisins and molasses. A little smoke in there as well. Too late in the evening for me to consider this properly!

Relative to its older brother, (my highest rated brew, by the way), this is hot - you can taste an alcohol burn going down which, imho, rates a bit of a downgrade...nonetheless, still a very complicated nose and taste of fruits - esp. banana. I also like the fact that it still retained a lot of the yeast sediment.