Kuhnhenn Raspberry Eisbock

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

A great fruit beer. Raspberry, prune, and malt flavors. Finishes chewy, smooth, and thick.

Tried this one at the Hop Devil during Daze of the Devil. I was really looking forward to this one after reading reviews here. Redish-brown pour with very little head, smells of raspberry and chocolate, taste is the same as the smell + syrupy though not too syrupy to make me declare this cough syrup. It’s a nice beer and certainly worth a try.

Thanks to TPaliga for this amazing unique gem. Very interesting all around and I want more. Huge aroma of raspberries and alcohol with chocolate coming through. Mouthfeel is thick and sweet, almost syrupy. Chocolate cuts through the raspberries and makes this amazing balanced. Wish the bottle was bigger!!

Monumental thanks to Hopscotch for sending the hard to find gem my way. Pours dark brown / garnet with a faint wispy tan head. The aroma is chocolate cover raspberries and thick caramel. Very lush aroma with the raspberries being very subdued in comparison to the other flavors. Medium / thick body tht is sticky and oily with a minor amount of carbonation. The flavors start similar to the aroma with chewy caramel and milk chocolate in the front and raspberries in the back. On the finish the raspberries open up more and there is a abv kick as well. Very unique and enjoyable beer. This is the kind of thing I’d like to actually drink, but at only 6.2 oz it is a sipper. As it warms there is a present toffee and fruity sourness on the initial taste. The finish begins taking more of a sourness from the raspberries and then gets very pleasantly tart. Excellent beer.

Pours a pinkish brown with next to no head. Thick ’legs’ on the side of the glass. Smells (not surprisingly) deeply of alcoholic raspberry. First sip - awesome. Unlike anything I’ve ever tasted in a beer. Tastes like a dessert wine with the texture of a good thick beer. Full raspberry, alcoholic and medicinal. A bit of chamomile herbal character in there too. Very full bodied, lightly carbonated. Syrupy? Yeah, I guess I would call it syrupy. Finishes with pure raspberry, though very sweet and not tangy at all.

4 oz. sample @ Hop Devil Grill: The beer I most looked forward to tasting at Daze of the Devil. Had a reddish-brown color with no head in the tiny glass. I couldn’t believe what I smelled: chocolate-covered raspberries. Simply amazing. And the taste...boy did it ever deliver. Simply wonderful. Again, a nice melding of chocolate and raspberries with some caramel hints as well. It felt very silky and thick on the palate and the alcohol wasn’t very discernable. The finish was predominantly raspberry. This is definitely a dessert beer...hell, it could easily be dessert too. I don’t care how much it cost for the sample, it was totally worth it. I sure wouldn’t mind getting my hands on a bottle or several of these.

6.3 oz bottle. Pours a dark red tinged brown, with a small tan head that fades very quickly to nothing. Due to lack of any head there’s no lacing to speak of. Not much to look at, but it was to be expected with the high abv. Smell; the raspberries really jump out of the glass, and are mixed with a very rich chocolate aroma. A touch of caramel is present in the nose, along with a nice nutty background. Taste; as expected the raspberries are very evident in the flavor, and it definitely does not come of as artificial at all, which I’m very thankful for. The chocolate comes out next, and nearly as strongly as the raspberries do. The nutty flavors are very much present as well, and provide just enough of a bittering effect to offset the sweetness of the raspberries and chocolate. There’s some hints of vinegar in the background that, surprisingly, seems to fit right in with everything ealse going on in this beer.. Mouthfeel/Drinkabilty; the mouthfeel on this one maybe the fullest, and mostly velvety of any beer that I’ve ever had. The drinkability is very good. Between the raspberries, chocolate, nuts and very full mouthfeel, this is like drinking a chocolate raspberry cake with a some walnuts or pecans thrown. This was my first beer of 2007, and boy was it a good one.

On tap at the HDG. Dark lightly hazy brown with some reddish highlights. Aroma is heavy sweet caramel/toffee with rasberry, chocolate, and alcohol. the caramel seemed pretty oxidized in the aroma and didn’t have high expectations for this beer at that point. However, the taste was much different. Taste is caramel/toffee and chocolate with a perfect balance of rasberry. Finishes with tart rasberry. excellent sipping beer.