Bürgerbräu Wolnzacher Roggenbier

Brewed by Bürgerbräu Wolnzach
Style: Specialty Grain
Wolnzach, Germany

Bottle. Wow. This is a new experience for me. Pours a cappucino with cream color. So much sediment it’s ridiculous (but good). Chunks of ground up malt, pieces of hops. . .Talk about unfiltered. Not to mention, unpasteurised. Not much of a head, but that’s ok. I have to give it a 5 just for sheer unfiltered goodness. Aroma does smell much like wheat, lots of caramel and malt as well. Sweet and smooth. Flavor is full of caramel, hops and pils malt. Hops especially tasty on the finish. Not tons of rye that I can taste, anyways, not anything bitter, dry or astringent. Flavors are mixed well together and the body is medium. Has a gritty feel due to the sediment, but otherwise very soft carbonation and smooth almost creamy body. Awesome stuff, keep em comin Burgerbrau.

Aroma of a wheat beer - not rye. The appearance is a cloudy burnt golden color. There remains a tremendous unfiltered funk at the bottom. Flavor is rich and full of grain. There is a lot of lemon in the front, and s a cream cheese finish.

Bottle. A puke brown orange color with lots of rising bubbles and a quickly diminishing head. About 2/3rds of the way through the pour the unfiltered "stuff" started pouring into the glass and it killed the head. A rye and herbal aroma. Lightly tart, lemon, rye and earthy flavors with an enjoyable aftertaste.

i don’t know if i could tell rye from wheat from regular barley-- even if each one came forward one at a time in a controlled environment and bit me on the butt cheek-- but this delightful beer of blended rich toasty malts is a challenge even if you know your grains as well as a draft horse. the color of unclarified honey, it looks like a drink of creamy toffee. the head is modest and retiring, fragmenting in lost little waifs of suds too tattered to call "lace"-- but the soft white dappling on chestnut reminds me of the striking coloration of the horse breed called a ’paint’. the aroma is a gorgeous sour peach and lemon grass, with toasted pine nuts, playdough, and apple sauce ground in a coarse mill with the brown peels in there too-- plus a bit of clove. i can report a much gentler carbonation that most raters experienced: my specimen was smooth with a minute spritz-- just enough to signal some animation. it’s pleasantly sweet with doughy apple dumpling flavors, dolloped with lemon creme. full-bodied, with a texture like half and half, it’s perhaps a cousin of the much spicier aventinus. i don’t even remember where i bought this, but if i found more, i’d be on it like a dung beetle on a fresh buffalo loaf!

07.21.04 500ml Bottle. This beer poured so muddied and chunky that I had to come on to ratebeer just to make sure I wasn’t about to kill myself drinking some toxic sludge. The mud is totally opaque, murky, gunky, and quite aromatic. The nose is bready (only hinting at rye), citrus filled, and reminds more of a german wheat than anything. The flavors are also in keeping with a wheat, apple, slight sourness and lemony tartness. The rye comes across as an afterthought and I have to really think about it do include it in my overall impression of the brew. I didn’t mind the murk, but the chunks were quite unappealing. Somehow, there is a lasting and persistent effervesensce that defies the gunk, the bubbles are huge and soapy. I can’t tell how old this bottle is, but I have faith in my fav bottle shop. An interesting experience, but not one I’m likely to explore again.

Cloudy w/lots of sediment, golden orange w/large bubbles. Sweet malt nose, corriander, orange and lemon spice. Acidic sourness, with creamy orange, nice mouthfeel...some what similar to a wit. Nice

July 04: 500 ml bottle shared with Tidiaguy. Incredibly gunky-looking stew-thick light caramel color...cool. Lemon-rye aroma is extraordinarily aromatic and food-like. Very spicy, zesty, sour and highly carbonated, with an odd and rather unappetizing sweetness running throughout, similar to rice syrup. This was very, very interesting, and I’d certainly recommend to the adventurous, but the bottle probably needs to be fresher, and it’s certainly not going to be everyone’s cup of mud. 8/4/6/3/15 3.6

Dec 2004, Swedish dregs, Alts etc tasting w/MartinT, tiggmtl and Rastacouere #2. 500 ml bottle. This sample is much fresh, I think, a bit less sedimented, much cleaner in the body, less vinous and fuller.

had a bottle of this at blind tiger. it´s always a bit of a risk getting beer that is on special and this seemed pretty old. very hazy light brown. apricot nectar aroma and texture. quite sweet, light taste of rye and, perhaps by association, of carraway. i´ll have to have a fresh bottle some time