Cold Spring Ebony Wheat

Brewed by Cold Spring Brewery
Style: Dunkelweizen
Cold Spring, Minnesota USA

Hazed brown color with a simple diminished ring of beige bubbles. Aromas of chocolate malt, wet grains, dough and silage. The more I smell this the more I smell raw, wet grains. Starts with dark malt flavors. Astringent and husky. Thin and metallic feel. There are a few redeeming qualities in the finish. With light grain and wheat. Getting to the finish is another matter.

12 oz bottle from Hi-Time. Color is heading for mahogany and the head is hardly there; miniscule white ring. Dark roasted malt aroma. Near medium body with creamy carbonation. Taste is a little sour citrus, coffee or chocolate, not much hop. Finish is very lightly sweet. This seems a bit complex with the flavor aspects changing from one mouthful to another. Good drink, but it’s missing banana to me. There is touch of something like banana skin fibre, but the n-amyl acetate seems absent.

Medium brown colored body with some light garnet at the edges. Only hints of a tiny light khaki head. The aroma has some notes of banana mixed with caramel. There was also some hint of cherry cough syrup. The taste has some banana mixed with sweet cherries. There is also a little bit of caramel. This was surprsingly decent and drinkable.

Picked up a single 12-oz bottle at Heritage Liquors in Maplewood, MN. Pours a clear dark copper amber brew with a creamy off-white head that has some nice retention and spotty lacing. Aroma of light roasted dark malt, a touch of dark chocolate, a little allspice and some flowery hops. Taste is slightly metallic, medium bodied, well carbonated with flavors of dark chocolate, pumpernickel bread, flowery hops and a touch of pipe tobacco. Finish is semi-sweet, a nice mild malty aftertaste with a hint of banana after the finish. One of the better new craft beers from Cold Spring.

Dark brown color with a medium head. Wheat and caramel malt aroma. Pretty strong wheat taste. Slightly sour banana. Not a bad rendition of a dunkelweizen.

Bottle poured a clear dark brown with a small disapating tan head. Aromas of burnt carmel, cocoa and light smoke. Palate was light bodied and crisp. Flavors of burnt carmel, smoke and light cocoa with a crisp dry lightly smoky finish.

Surprisingly not bad considering where it is from. Some wheat in the aroma and flavor. Lightly roasted and some bubblegum as well. It is drinkable and it does seem unfiltered.

bottle, nut brown amber color with a nice tan foam, aroma has some spice and dark malt, flavor is a little wheat bread and some grainy nuts, finish is watery