EKU 28

Bottle. Poured a deep bronze color with a small white head that didn’t last with no real lacing. Slightly sweet aroma of dark fruit and malt. Flavor of sweet dark fruit; black cherry and raisin underlaid by the malt taste. Very clean palate despite it’s being 11% by volume. I like starkbier and this is a good one.

11.2oz bottle, fridge cellared for approximately 6 months.
First Eisbock rating. It’s about time. Golden hued orange body with an immense, barely off white head. This thing is at least 2.5 fingers thick and going nowhere anytime soon. Very bubbly and sudsy in appearance. A decent coating of lacing adorns the glass when the head finally has enough. Tons of carbonation bubbles are the only thing marring the otherwise crystal clear body. Nose has tons of perfume, along with candied oranges, booze soaked dessert bread, cherries, pears and tons of fusel alcohol. Smells even bigger than the 11%, which is quite a feat. Fore is tart fruits, candied sugars, fruit cake soaked in booze and spice. Back end picks up a lot of citrus esters, along with more candied sugars and doughy notes. Not as sweet as I thought it would be judging by some of the ratings. Medium bodied, coats the tongue and throat like a hard liquor does, has a very rum like feel to it, only far more carbonated. Finish is boozy as hell, a theme with this beer, then sweet and finally finishing with more harsh alcohol. I’m sure this one would improve with a lot more aging on it.

Bottle, a clear amber, no head. Sweet toffeeish aroma with some corn characteristics., but also whiskeyish. A very whiskey flavour, the finish gets sweeter and more syrupy.

Tasted 21/12/2007. 330ml bottle from Regionals. Brilliant, lambent dark rose-gold - tending amber - with a creamy white head. Bready, milled-grain malt character dominates the first nose. On closer inspection there is a rose-like perfumy character. That carries through into the mouth, where toffee and a strong alcohol character, with a slight burn, dominates. Sweet. A little alcohol spice. No noticeable hop character, as you’d expect, but it could do with some. Too strong and cloying for me too enjoy. The bready character from the nose, comes through as a cereal note on the palate.

Glass: pours a red/golden color w/ a small head. Scents of berries with a little alcohol. Flavors of sweet toffee, berries, and some sherry. It’s a little sweet for me to drink regularly, but the bottle says it’s a malt liquer, and I would put it up against 40 oz of anything, anytime, any day!

12oz bottle. 1722302 in the black box on the back of the bottle. Filtered and bright ruby amber hue. Tight ring and web of cream colored head. Toasty toffee malt aromas. Cooked sugar and a noticable whiff of alcohol. Big sweet sticky malts, big fruit and alcohol warmth. Finishes rather dry and crisp. Hits all the tastes and palate. Toffee and caramel. Big red berry notes. Definite port notes. Short lived yet big effervescence. It stumbles and accosts the palate rather than pleasantly rolling over. Bold flavor definitions. I love sweet sticky beer, and this is in that ballpark. But I have had better, and from the same brewery.

12 oz bottle, aged nearly a year. Pours a lovely clear ruby with fizzy, vanishing beige head. Massive toffee aroma with sherry warmth, red licorice sweetness. Ungainly on the palate, with strong oxidation metals countering an initial fruity sweetness, huge brandy-like alcohol presence and faint medicinal hop finish. Thin on the palate, but quite sticky afterwards. OK once in a while.

Golden, actually more red-brown with a nice, creamy and lasting head. The aroma is malty and slightly hoppy. The mouthfeel is fat and warming from the alcohol. The flavour is sweet and malty with notes of roasted malt and candy sugar, and the rather long finish has a light bitterness. In spite of the high ABV it’s surprising that the alcohol isn’t more obvious in the flavour. It’s not one I’ll buy again, but it’s fun to have tasted it.