Spital St. Katharinen Spezial

Brewed by Spitalbrauerei Regensburg
Style: Amber Lager/Vienna
Regensburg, Germany

Serve in Dimpled mug, Lager glass, Shaker

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Bottle. Sweet caramel malt aroma. Clear amber color with large tan head and moderate effervescence. Sweet caramel malt and moderately bitter weedy hops flavor. Unique - a nice beer.

Bottle 330ml.
Clear light to medium amber color with a large, frothy, good lacing, mostly lasting, off-white head. Aroma is moderate malty, roasted, caramel, tea, light nutty, light to moderate hoppy, flowers. Flavor is moderate sweet and bitter with a average to long duration. Body is medium, texture is watery to oily, carbonation is soft. [20091002]

Bottle 33 cl. Courtesy of fonefan. Pours a clear with a firm off-white head. Sweet malty aroma. Medium body, sweet malts and a little caramel. Only vaguely hoppy. Nice one. 021009

A 0.33L bottle tasted at One Pint Pub. Malty nose. Pale head. Copperbrown colour. Malty taste. Mild hoppiness. Roastiness. Some sourness.

(33cl bottle) Clear, amber colour with a mid-sized off-white foamy head. Sweet and fruity malt aroma, mildly toasted with citrus and a soft hoppy touch. Aromatic and slightly toasted malty and nutty taste with citrus and liquorice and caramel; malt-accented finish with a rounded bitterness and a slightly woody hop-character. My favourite Spital brew.

Bottle (purchased at the brasserie): Amber coloured, mid-sized fluffy head, that slowly collapses; caramelly and toasted malty nose with a good dash of herbal hops and a faint, faint tinge of vegetables; moderate to robust sweet-bitter flavour, medium bodied; quite dense sweetish-caramelly finish with, again, a tinge of herbal hops in the aftertaste. Well drinkable, even though it is a bit on the sweet side........

Good, but receding brownish head; orange-brown clear beer, well-carbonated. Slightly bready, quite malty nose, developping herbal, parsley-like aroma’s. Fresh herbal, and soft-malty taste. Just as the pils, speaking of excellent balance. Some hints at good hops, but never overriding the general malty character. Rather well-bodied, yet refreshing. My wife remarked : "like a bolleke" - meaning the Antwerpener De Koninck ale, and this is indeed not unlike a Belgian Speciale - but brewed with bottom-fermenting and German hops. Good!, and big thanks to joss.

Bottle
Beautifull golden amber, big foamy off-white head. Sweet cookie malt and aromatic aroma. Fullbodied malty with a fruity touch, herbal an aromatic hops in nice balance. Sparkly mouthfeel aromatic aftertaste.

Tap: Slightly musty lager nose - harmless. Nice pale gold color and low foamy head. Sweeter than bitter, but a respectable balance in the end.

On tap at the Berliner Bierfestival 04: Amber colored, spare head, nearly no carbonation. Nose was kind of hoppy but very weak. Sweet malt taste - actually too sweet and all in all stale.