Weihenstephaner/Samuel Adams Infinium

Brewed by Bayerische Staatsbrauerei Weihenstephan
Style: Belgian Strong Ale
Freising, Germany

Serve in Trappist glass, Tulip, Tumbler

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750ml bottle. Clear golden caramel color. Small snow white head, stays. Slightly metallic, sweet, balsamic apple vinegar in aroma. Metallic, notes of wheat, apples in flavour. Quite refreshing.

750ml bottle (Alko Arkadia, Helsinki) - at the "100 Euros of Shit Beer tasting".
Pours a pale orangy gold, with a brief white head. Fruity aroma, definitely saying wheats. Almost sour in places though. Some alcohol in the retronasals, but on the whole the alcohol’s quite well restrained. Some sourness in the taste too, in particular when it goes up the back of the nose. Smooth, and a little sweet, but not too sicky. There’s a wheaty taste too, quite a bit earlier on, but less simple later on. Sweetens as it warm, becomes more like a pastry with its wheaty flouriness, and its hints of apple. A very simple taste, no real depth. I do like how well it covers the 10.5%, but it’s not a great beer, and certainly not worth 20e (shop price, not pub price)

Poured a hazy almost 2 tone golden color with a thick growing bleach white head. Flavor is bright and very citrusy. Palates extremely sweet and carbonated. Not at an expected taste.

Bottle, best by 2010, Best part about this beer was that it was free from LFranko, its a champagne like beer which is meant to feature the yeast and effervescent but this just feels like old school BSA, nothing standout here.

Gold, light haze, fluffy white head. Aroma and flavor of wheat and pilsner malt, spicy phenols, a little earthy funk in this 2-plus year old bottle with some tartness and light acidity in finish. Some fruity notes in aroma of pear and apple. Effervescent and crisp. ---Rated via Beer Buddy for iPhone

10th January 2011
Clear amber beer, good white head, short lived. Light fruit salad nose. Light frothy palate, carbonated nibble. Creamy malt, fruit salad sweets and a trace of sherbet. The finish is more creamy malt with a trace of tangy citrus.

Es una cerveza muy especial, achampanada y fina. Muy refrescante. Mejor servir muy fria. Disfrútala.

75cl bottle. Dark golden colour with a white head, good lasting and nice lacing. Aroma is malty, light sweet and fruity. Flavor is malty, bready, buttery and slightly yeasty. The final is light sweet and malty. Carbonation and body are medium.

Bottle sample at a tasting at Ariel’s place. Thanks Tom. Clear, golden with white head and a very bready, orange aroma. A little buttery, sweet and malty taste, light body, long, malty finish. OK but definitely overrated.

January 3rd, 2011 - My grandparents have spent the last few Christmases giving me a stash of craft beer to go along with all my other Christmas goodies. The box is filled with a well meaning blend of good and bad brews; some are new, and some I’ve had before. But the highlight of my Christmas beer box last year was easily the Weihenstephaner and/or Sam Adams Infinium. The ’Boardwalk Empire’ label is a nice touch, but the beer itself is a odd but sensuously new interpretation of the Belgian Strong Ale style. A good inch of foam with medium lacing caps the glass, and the body runs a spectrum of colors from a deep golden yellow to an orange halo around the edges. French vanilla and cream give the aroma an Old World decadence, with touches of banana and pistachio, and that clean, light dairy sweetness unique to a sterile, clean and cold ice cream parlor. This isn’t the Belgian Strong filled with fig and cinnamon, but light and custardy, and well suited for dessert. The first sip is bubbling and busy, like a champagne. Once the palate slows, flavors familiar to the aroma appear: banana, vanilla and custard, alongside some dry grain tastes more akin to a saison. It’s a sophisticated flavor that feels like it belongs at the end of a 4-course meal in a small French restaurant, with custards and bottles of booze being passed freely across knotted wood tables. The aftertaste allows me to savor this experience - practically a necessity when a beer is this good.