Kuhnhenn Raspberry Eisbock

Brewed by Kuhnhenn Brewing
Style: Fruit Beer
Warren, Michigan USA

Sampled thanks to BigErn. Pours a cloudy/murky brown with a maroon tint to it. Plenty of sediment floating in the beer. Smell is raspberry(of course) with some chocolate(tootsie roll) as well. Taste is pure raspberry puree with a hit of tootsie roll in the finish. Not being a big fan of tootsie rolls, I love good chocolate, but don’t classify tootsie roll as such. This beer would be "all world" with either a different chocolate used or with simply no chocolate at all. The mouthfeel and beginning taste is absolutely delightful. Maybe with aging the chocolate will subside some.

Sampled at the O-Down Throwdown thanks to "ibrew2or3." Pours a dark brown with virtually no head. Aroma has hints of chocolate, caramel and berries. Flavor is smooth with a tartiness when you taste the berries, chocolate and caramel. Very well balanced and a excellent beer for after dinner.

Vintage 2004. Very hazy, muddy warm brown coloured beers with almost no head. The concistency is thick and oily. Aroma is dominated by liquid butter caramel, whipped up doubble cream with a dash dark rhum, cookies, caramelized sugars on top of a fruitcake and rich touches of milk chocolate with a fruity-caramel filling. The taste is exposing or should i say revealing the wonderful kick of sour red berries with an elegance that counters well the richeness of the sweet caramelly caracter of the beer. It is incredible how the fruity part can come out so crisp and pure out of a beer that is so rich, sticky and caramel sweet. This is indeed a very original beer that melts two different sensations in a very good way.

2004 - abject thanks to lachesis for sharing this one!! Fully hazy brown chocolate coloure; virtually no perceptible head. Buttertoffees, exploding out of the glass; caramel bar with running filling, seemingly ready to go creeping out of the glass. Very little fruitiness. Again the same running caramel toffee in the taste, but this time with some (obviously sourish) fruit. Difficult to say whether raspberry or other red fruit. Raisins and apples in rhum for a dessert. Retronasal, I’ve got not-quite-bitter black chocolate and more near-tart fruit. Very well-bodied, nearly fully viscous. Kaiserschmarrel’n, Tarte Tatin,... dessert top-beer anyway.

2004 bottle obtained via trade with Demitriustown. Dark cloudy brown with red highlights and a quickly fading beige head. Malted milk balls, brown sugar, nice non-artificial raspberry, light cocoa and light oxidation in the nose. Flavor has notes of ovaltine, fresh caramel, moderate raspberry, molasses, mocha, sherry and dark fruit. Pleasantly sweet and balanced with just the perfect amount of hops for this kind of beer; very subtle, showcasing the malt. Alcohol content is very, very smooth and warming on the back end. Medium bodied and lush with a velvety, perfect fine-beaded carbonation, just lovely. The ultimate dessert beer.

On tap at the Hop Devil Grill, 2/21/07. was going to save this rating for #1000 but who can wait when it’s on tap at your local bar!!?? blackish brown color, ruby brown at edges. aroma is chocolate malt and raspberry, smells like a Godiva chocolate raspberry truffle! flavor is the best chocolate malt I’ve ever tasted. flavor is also like a choclate raspberry truffle. alcohol is so well hidden it’s sick. the finish of alcohol is more like godiva liqueur with chambord, and goes quite well with the rest of the flavors. believe the hype.

Rating #600

Sampled at the O-Town throwdown. Pours dark with almost no head. The aroma is chocolate, light berry fruitiness, hints of smoke and tobacco. The flavor is smooth and melded with tart berry fruit, caramel malts, dark chocolate bar, some wine grapes and then another dash of sweet caramel and chocolate. The flavors play very well together and I get no sense of the ABV.

Bottle from footbalm. Thanks!! Now, I’ve been wanting to try this for a looong time and guess what? I wasn’t blown away like I thought i’d be. Anyway, Murky dark amber color with small fast dissapering head. Aroma of raspberries, caramel,chocolate and funk. The taste was the same as the aroma with a weird tart finish. Smooth mouthful.