Holzhausener Landbier

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

One of the best in this style. Landbier is kind of like a zwickle. Young and impressionable. Light straw color with a medium white head. Slightly acidic, just enough to make this a great thirst quencher.

Light gold color, slightly greenish tint. Medium sized white foamy head. The aroma is fruity and sweet. A light to medium bodied landbier. Malts are fruity and sweet, with a touch of breadiness. Hops are crisp, slightly spicy and a touch floral. Nicely balanced. A little sweet and could have used a touch more carbonation, but still a nice tasting, light and crisp beer. Mouthfeel is full and round. Finish is clean and smooth. Aftertaste is slightly sweet.

Clean, biscuity malt accent on both the nose and the palate. If you like dortmunders or helles, you’ll really enjoy landbier.

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.

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.........

Very slightly hazy, pale gold color with a thin cap of a white head, this has a sweet, doughy aroma with hints of grass and a light floral hopping. Lightly carbonated, this is medium-bodied, yet somewhat sticky to drink. The flavor is pretty much that of sweet malts with a slight hop bitterness on the tongue in the finish.

(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).

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.