Holzhausener Landbier

Brewed by Aktienbrauerei Kaufbeuren
Style: Zwickel/Keller/Landbier
Kaufbeuren, Schwaben/Bayern, Germany

Pour is a cloudy yellow with a small white head. Aroma is a very sweet malt with some grain and hay. Flavor is a lot weaker. Some grass and malt but very watery and weak. This is not a good beer but i will not kill it to bad as I see the last rating for the beer was from 5/08. I probably got a really old bottle.

Bottle (donated by joss !): Pale golden, cloudy, bigger, slowly collapsing loose white head; citrousy-worty nose, mixed with traces of yeast and spicy hops; moderate to solid bitter-sweet flavour, light to medium bodied; lingering spicy-fruity-hoppy finish. A goody.........

(swing top bottle) Cloudy, yellow colour with a big but non-persistent foamy white head. Sweet, slightly yeasty and worty malt aroma with notes of citrus and spicy hops. Light-bitter flavour, slim bodied with a soft carbonation. Moderately yeasty, slightly worty malty nose with subtle fruity accents (citrus); dryish, slightly sweet and bitter finish with a light but aromatic hoppy bite. Nice brew by a tiny Suebian brewery (09.04.08).

Bottle. Fairly yeasty, dry clayish aroma. Cloudy neon yellow, off-white foam. Strong fruity entrance, citrus fruits, minerallic yeast, herbal and aromatic hops hiding in the background. Fairly carbonated, hence a bit too light mouthfeel. Peachy retronasal.

From a 500 ml. euro brown bottle with a notch freshness date on the back label. Poured an unfiltered cloudy dull golden with a foamy white head that settled into a thin lacing. Aromas of spicy floral hops, a grain breadiness and a light lemon. Moderate carbonation and a crisp, creamy smooth medium bodied mouthfeel. Nice pleasant taste, grainy and sour bready, floral and slight grassy hops that are soft in their bitterness, a sweet lemony emerges towards the end and a dry spicy and malty finish. Easy, smooth drinkability, not a bad Landbier, quite quaffable.

Swing top bottle. Blonde, cloudy, no specific aroma. Light citric flavor. No clear hop character. Just a refreshing and fairly tasty beer. Surprisingly little character, but I drank this beer with pleasure.

From 500mL Bottle. Pours a crisp, clean color of pale lemon with a medium sized frothy white head. Light aromas of sourdough bread and plucked celery leaf. Mouthfeel is crisp and clean, with a pleasant whole wheat breadiness backed by a touch of malt. Almost a hint of green prune toward the final smack. Not bad overall; it kind of reminds me of a pilsner flavored with a touch of sweeter, dark fruits.

(500 ml bottle: $1.99 at Hollingshead Deli in Orange, CA) Kind of grainy, lightly bready and only a little sweet, but also mildly hoppy and bitter, so I’m liking the balance here. Light-medium bodied, but because of the hops presence, it’s somewhat clean and lightly crisp. Carbonation is light to medium as well. The nose is pretty much just straight grain and lightly bready. Pale yellow in color, but somewhat hazy. It’s interesting that the beer is hazy because there is no evidence of yeast in the bottle. My first Landbier, and this seems to be an enjoyable, though not mind-blowing style.