Dixie Blackened Voodoo Lager

Brewed by Minhas Craft Brewery
Style: Schwarzbier
Monroe, Wisconsin USA

Sampled during joebrew’s Wednesday evening beer tasting at Cellar’s Wine & Spirits in St Paul, MN. Pours a clear amber brew with a thin off-white head that quickly dissipates to a fine film and ring top. Aroma of light caramel malt, some citrus zest, a touch of berry and some creamed corn. Taste is light to medium bodied, plenty of carbonation with flavors of a caramel malt and citrus brew. Finish has a good balance of sweetness and dry malt aftertaste. This could be considered a good session beer.

Pours thinly to burnt caramel color. Bready honey and maple syrup aroma; lightly pungent with cloying sugar and high fructose corn syrup. A bit of cinnamon toward the back. Flavors of wet old wood and flat lemon and lime soda; lightly tart, softly bitter, and very bored. Tacky, sticky, and thin in the mouth; mild, sugary berries in the dry finish. Altogether, unpleasant.

Light brown in color with a small off white head. Malty aroma. Malty flavor as well but not too much else.

Pours a copper color with a tan head. Aroma is of slight roasted malts, chocolate, dark fruits, and caramel malts. Flavor was a little strong up front with the roasted malts, chocolate, molasses, and dark fruits. Finishes with not much flavor.

Bottle. Sweet caramel malt aroma. Red-amber color with giant beige head. Slightly sweet caramel malt flavor with a hint of cherry. In the 80s, this was one of the best US beers out there. Still a decent beer.

Pours coppery brown with an off-white head that lasts. This isn’t really a schwarzbier; more of a dunkel. It’s crisp, fizzy and drinkable. Only mildly hoppy and lightly malty, this is basically a step-above-the-macros lager. In a world of craft beer, it doesn’t stand out.

I purchased this beer for nothing more than the artwork. The lager was thick like a stoudt, looked like a porter and tasted like something had been burnt during the process of making it. I only bought it once and have not seen it locally in many years.

Clear chestnut brown, rapidly receding head. Low aroma of burnt malt, same flavour dominates the palate. Light and lagery, thin mouthfeel, dry finish.