Eisenbahn Vigorosa (Weizenbock)

Brewed by Cervejaria Sudbrack
Style: Weizen Bock
Blumenau, Brazil

Iced tea brown with no head retention. Very cloudy. Somewhat noticeable alcohol nose. Malty intro with significantly carbonated mouthfeel. Sweetness pervades throughout like very ripe bananas, especially in the aftertaste. Very good alcohol warming. This is a great beer.

Beautiful dark color. The head does not last too long, but is there for some time. Aroma is sweet with notes of alcohol. It tastes sweet in the begining but latter it gets very complex, finishing with citrous notes and a hint of alcohol, which is well hiden. A very nice beer that gets better as it gets warm.

Muito boa esta cerveja da Sudbrack - uma das melhores. Simplicidade é a palavra. Coloração vinho, muito escura. Espuma boa, densa. Malte no sabor, torrado, retrogosto torrado. Encorpada.

Hazy dark amber color. Off-white head quickly dissipated into a thin ring around the glass. Sweet wheat nose with faint banana. Smooth banana and doughy body on this one.

Thanks for the bottle, iowaherkeye. The body is a deep copper with a light, thin, khaki colored head. The aroma is glazed donuts with some medicinal hints. There is also some definite banana. The taste has some sweet notes of banana with lots of clove spice in the finish. The body is smooth and lightly carbonated. There is also a hint of toffee in the finish. This is nicely done and a pretty good example of the style. I am impressed.

Bottle (trade with shigadeyo). Initial aroma was like bologna - as head slowly faded an over-ripe banana and orange aroma came out. Cloudy dark brown-orange with giant head. Iniitial flavor was of sweet orange/banana and wheat malt with a bit of bite to the tongue - lasts throughout swallowing with a moderate astringent/alcohol burn to finish. Really a pretty nice beer that is accurate to the style.

Wow. Banana aroma. Maybe sweet, brown banana. Hazy dark amber color with a beige head that hung around. Medium bodied. Starts with dark sweet malt. Suggestions of wheat. Banana, clove and chocolate are definitely present. Seems to be a little bitter in the finish, but the finish is mostly malt and a bit of banana. Quite an impressive combination.

Twist the lid off of this 12 oz brew and get a whiff of manly beer, sweet, chocolaty, wheaty and strong-ale-ish at the same time, also has a sort of vanilla in there too. This stuff pours like a dunkleweizen in appearance, you know, darker brown and cloudy, but not black. Nice coating of gunk on the bottom of the bottle. You get that hypnotizing swirling particle thing going on when you pour unfiltered wheat properly, love it. The taste is a wallop, sweet syrup alky impact, wew, quite an impression. You want to get buzzed fast? This cannot stand up to Victory Moonglow Weizenbock as far as enjoyability goes. This is more on the level of Samuel Adams Winter Lager, with it’s oppressive servitude. Very coarse and hard to take. Never a session beer, two of these on an empty stomach and you’ll get stopped for a DUI! Each taste has a grainy alcohol tinge. Schneider Aventis is a little better than this also. I noticed that there are many other weizenbocks that do not have such a high alky %. If Vigarosa means invigorating, I’ll agree with that! Wow, each sip is something that cannot be explained. Man, the finish on this is notbitter hoppy nor bitter malty, more like some crazy industrial alky back of throat bitter experience that is medium in length and fretting. Will not purchase again, probably the least tasty weizenbocks I’ve encountered. There is carbonation but you would never notice it with all the other flavor overwhelming going on. Simply mows over my girlie taste buds. However, I am very glad to have had the opportunity to taste this. If you like high alky beers such as Belgian strong of barleywines, give this a try, you may really like it.