Hevelius Kaper

Brewed by Grupa Zywiec
Style: European Strong Lager
Zywiec, Poland

500ml can (Carrefour, Warsaw)
Paleish orange, brief head. Bready and doughy aroma, some hops come through too. Very rich and sweet in the mouth, caramelly, and with a tingle from the carbonation and the hops. Taste fairly simple, but good, ESL mostly sweet malts and caramel, and with a huge spiky hoppy tingle. Finish has the hop spike mellow out to give more indication that it’s a hop rather than an astringent chemical, and of course the sweet maltiness continues. Only finally do you realise that this actually has some alcohol in it; they covered the 8.7% under the sugar and the hops very well, considering, there was no taste of alcohol at all (even if the fullness and vapours in the mouth gave it away).

Serving type: Bottle poured in to a pint glass at near-room temperature. Amber pour with a white head that dissipated rather quickly and left no lace. Malty sweet aroma with hints of fruit and honey. Sweet and malty with light alcohol. Hints of spice. No hops what-so-ever. Thick, unpleasant feel that lingered in the back of my throat. It was worth trying but overall I was not very impressed.

Bottle. Amber with a white head. Sweet malty with a light caramel and apple honey malt character. Sweet and chewy with lagered notes. A bit of a mess.

Amber red pour with a thick white head that lasts a while. The aromas are honey and malt, together with fine wood and alcohol notes. I had this almost at room temperature and the mouthfeel was cloyingly thick, very voluminous. The flavour is not that overwhelming - liquor, again honey and somehow vinous. The bitterness is light, but reminds me of vermouth. A bit one-dimensional and bulky, but nicely warming.

Nice dark honey color with a slight pink hue. The aroma is fantastic- like apple cider. Unfortunately, the taste is like olive oil mixed with cheap cologne. Disgusting.

Sampled from a 500ml bottle during Dark Lord Day ’09 at table 3. Pours semi-clear dirty golden amber colored brew with a fast dissolving off-white head that dissipates clean. Aroma of golden grain malt, sugar, some honey and some mellon? Taste is rancid. Overly sweet, sugar cookie dough and bitter. Finish is heavy sweet, oily texture with a sugar/honey and coconut milk aftertaste. What is this stuff? Infected bottle? My first homebrew was better.

Bottle from case and keg. How the hell does this beer get any kind of good rating. I spit mine out and poured the rest out. Nasty. Stank malts, stank everything. Flavor is sweet and tastes of some overripe fruit. Nasty.

Moderate malty aroma. Small, frothy, white head. Good lacing. Mostly diminishing longevity. Clear, brown body. Moderate bitter flavor. Medium palate with oily texture.