Hevelius Kaper

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

Bottle, 8.7%. Weak peppery aroma. Clear amber colour. Big stable tan head. The flavour is quite sweet and peppery. Caramelly maltiness. Some fruit and spice in the finish. Nice.

Pours a light copper color with almost zero head. Aroma has a metal tinge to it with some caramel and toffee notes and lots of alcohol. Flavor has a slight skunk flavor to it with some sweetness that follows the skunk and finishes with an exorbiant amount of alcohol. This beer will kick your ass while not tasting very good at the same time!

Hevelius Kaper is a very clear, sparkling amber/copper lager with a soft, dense, off-white head with white splotches. It has great retention and lacing. The aroma is of fruit and vegetables: banana, melon, squash, black pepper, leaves and hay. It’s a little funky. It has a thick, syrupy body and a rather gritty finish. It’s a little sweet and very boozy. It’s funky and resiny with something kind of like cornbread and sorghum. This is almost in Malt Liquor territory! The aftertaste is of cork and resin. This beer is for the hard hearted. The 500 ml bottle was well worth the 97 cents I paid.

Sampled at Lowry Park Wazoo in August 2008. Very tasty and unique. Almost creamy in body.

Bottle(Label only Kaper-no hevelius?) Clear red colour, nice creamy head. Aroma of lots of malts,citric,grassy,dry hopy ending. Flavor has a medium body mouth feeling, short caramely finish.

This is an enjoyable, smooth strong lager. It’s amber with a fairly big off-white head that shrinks slowly to a thin, wispy top and a hint of lace. The aroma is fresh, toasty sweet bread, hint of lemon, pine, and rather nice. It has a bit of a Czech lager taste to it and the alcohol is essentially unnoticeable. The taste is clearly alcholic, but very smoothly so, with nothing rough opr unpleasant. It has a light caramel quality, bread, and nice, warm spiciness, it’s a bit rasiniy, sweet and spicy with a light bitterness coming to the fore in the finish. It does not taste quite as strong as it is.

very small thin head, short lasting, smelling like a sweet bitter sugary candy. taste is dry and bitter like, nothing really in the after taste

Pour is deep golden with a thin skin of a white head...smell is lightly fruity with melons and sugar...taste is lightly sweet and grainy with a full mouthfeel...there isn’t realy much to this beer except for the sweetness...how this is almost 9% is rather amazing...