Berghoff Hazelnut Winter Fest Ale

Brewed by Minhas Craft Brewery
Style: Brown Ale
Monroe, Wisconsin USA

Handsome copper color, but little head or body. Nice intro to a drink. It’s got a light caramel & stale nut aroma. The drink itself is watery, come caramel and what tastes more like nut shells than nut meat. Not a pleasant experience.

This beer looks nice in the glass, has a clear dark red body. Dusty carmel malt in the aroma with some background nobelish hops to offset the sweetness. Bigger caramel malt with a clean-tasting start but the finish degrades into a dry papery mess. The finish also has those low-profile hops.

Shiny reddish amber body, fizzy and fading off-white head. Dusty, sweet nutty malt w/ light hop presence. Kind of the same with the flavor. Slight hazelnut. Not too bad.

Iteresting brew from Berghoff. Wasn’t sure what to expect, I hate hazlenut coffee so I was leary about this one. Not to bad on the hazlenut flavor, but lacking a lot of other flavor.

Pours a very light amber color. Lots of bubbles and a small white head. Aroma of apples and hazelnuts. Flavor is thin, with the similar mentioned, toasted malt finish. Not bad at all, but I need a little more "ooomph" in my winter brew. Thanks to 1FastSti for this one!

I had this at the Restaurant in Chicago--great food but the beer is only so-so, I’ve found. This is a nice brown amber with a foamy head. I don’t believe it’s a true ale but rather a brown-colored lager. Nose is mild and a bit nutty with just a faint ghost of malt. Flavor follows and is a bit thin with a slight twang of artificial tasting spice. Drinkable but nothing I’m about to seek out again.

This bottled brew poured a medium sized head of finely sized off-white colored mostly lasting bubbles that left behind a poor lacing. The body was carbonated hazy yet transparent and brown in color. The aroma was mild with malty and hoppy notes mixed with a little brown malts. The mouth feel was smooth mildly tingly and disappeared in the finish. It had a nice malty nutty mild brown beer flavor mixed in with a tad of caramel.

Bottle. Medium sized ivory head and small-large sized bubbles that mostly diminished. Fast rising carbonation, transparent and an orange hue. Malty and nutty aroma. Sweet, smooth and nutty flavor. Smooth mouthfeel. Fair lacing.