Xingu

Brewed by FEMSA Cerveja Brasil
Style: Schwarzbier
Jacareí (SP), Brazil

Serve in Dimpled mug, Lager glass, Stein

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Black color, large head. Medium bodied beer. Roasted malts, coffee-like flavor, a little too sweet tasting. Full flavor. Mouthfeel is full and round. Finish is smooth and a little thin. Aftertaste is dry and malty. Beer us a little too sweet, but a very refreshing beer.

Pours a dark molasses body with a perfect chocolate head that settles into a ring. Sweet malt aroma with a caramel factor. Crisp malt flavor with a sweet caramel edge having a drawn out depth. This is a surprising stellar dark lager with a moderately complex, sweet body, and an adequately dry finish.

Sweet latte nose. Malt sweetness and stale creamed coffee. A bit thin on the mouthfeel, mabey I got an old bottle.

big black bottle. Dark strong flavors.

A dark, malty tasting beer. Very little, or no head. Has a sweet, smoked taste to it. Smooth texture. Has a faint roasted peanut texture and taste. I wasn’t expecting much, but was pleasantly surprised.

nice dark lager. nutty sweet taste with a smoky element to it. hasa bitter porter-like finish to it.

A very good very sweet black beer from Brazil. It is probably the best South American beer by far. Very complex and great flavor. Beautiful in the glass. Wonderful mouthfeel. A must.

This smells like a bucket of latex housepaint. Looking perfectly normal, nice and dark, minimal head, I am flabergasted. Little carbonation, it feels like I’m drinking a flat soft drink. This could be a bad bottle, and I’m open for a rerate after seeing such high opinions here. However, the only accuarate description I have is that it tastes like I’m drinking a can of flat black paint.

silky and sable with just a pinstripe of brown to suggest the extremities; the head bloomed like an inflatable raft. some dust-like particulate matter in there doing some lazy inebriated bobbing about in the inky murk. a wafting aroma of cherry and port. tight effervesence is the first impression on the tongue, then sweetness, suggestive of added sugar, as in mackeson. busy melange of flavors: chutney, tamari sauce, oatmeal, currents or slightly burned raisins. moderate edgy bitterness, possibly derived from the steeped bones of a couple lost amazonian missionaries. it tops the few other schwarzbiers i’ve had, which tended to error on the side of being understated. this one has some boldness.

Much darker than expected, deep black with a dark brown head. Nose has lots of cola, some cherries, and a bit of coffee. Flavor is surprisingly sweet, reminscent of cola or Dr. Pepper-ish sweetness. The sweetness is backed by some roasted malts, a bit of fruitiness, and licorice. Palate is quite pleasant, thin, but not watery. Drinkable enough to be refreshing on a hot day, but dark enough to have some heft. A darn nice schwarzbier, best I’ve had of the style.