EKU 28

Brewed by Kulmbacher Brauerei (Schörghuber)
Style: Eisbock
Kulmbach, Germany

11.2oz bottle poured a clear copper with off white head that vanished in seconds. Nice strong malty and dark fruit aroma. I get semi sweet caramel, dates, plums, alcohol and a slight hint of olives. This has a nice rich mouth feel. At the start I get a slight hint of olive, some tasty caramel and solid dark fruitiness. By midway the caramel sweetens and builds. Beyond midway the fruitiness takes over somewhat with growing alcohol warmth in the background. All of the flavor notes listed on the label really came true for me. This beer just reached out and gave me a warm hug.

11.2 oz bottle. Poured a crystal clear copper with minimal head. Aroma of fruity wine and malts. Flavor was malts, candy sugar, and a bit fruity. Too sweet and syrupy for my taste. It looked very nice, but I guess just not my type of beer.

A nice eisbock. I don’t drink German beers very often and when I do I wonder why. This beer was like a wine. The pours was a thick red with a tan 2 finger head that left quickly. The aroma was wine and malt. The taste was chewy carmel with malt and alcohol. I don’t have much experience with eisbocks but if this is considered a sub par one, I must search out a good one ’cuz this is great.

This beer tasted like a dunkel that had been distilled. While I know nothing about the history of this beer, it struck me that this beer may have been launched when high-alc alone was enough to distinguish you from other beers. But in a marketplace where we have an abundance of dubels, tripels, and quads, in addition to barley-wine, old ale and other high-alc styles, I’m not sure this beer measures up so well. It poured with little to no head. It had a sweet malt aroma, and a pleasant malt/bourbon/caramel/spice flavor. Not bad, but not as complex/nuanced as I was led by the label description to expect. Mouthfeel was full and slightly puckery. This beer is not extremely drinkable, but I don’t think its supposed to be!

served in a brandy sniffer. tastes too thick. syrupy texture overwhelms any flavor. drinkable but not wholeheartedly recommended.

Clear deep bronze and despite an A1 pour it has no head what-so-ever. Aroma is as you’d expect sweet caramely and alcoholic, taste is sweet and malty but with a slight harsh finish and the cold tea appearance it looses points.

Golden dark brown colour with a nice frothy mostly lasting off-white head. Sweet aroma of some roasted malt, caramel, alcohol, spices and fruity hops. Flavour is sweet, rather smooth, nice maltiness, caramel, some spices, nice fruitiness, slight chocolate. Bit of a port like sweet dry finish. Easy to drink and pretty good with desserts. A good Echt Kulmbacher.

Caramel color. Smell of wine, spice, malt, fruit, nuts, toasted caramel, alcohol and hints of vanila beans. Taste of plums, cherries, toasted malt, caramel, spice, toffee, nuts and alcohol. Very high alcohol taste and it really warms your body up. I like it! Thanks Brewblackhole!