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Kulmbacher Eisbock

Kulmbacher Eisbock - Eisbock

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 Percentile 
98
overall
Brewed by Kulmbacher Brauerei (Schörghuber)
Style: Eisbock

Kulmbach, Germany

bottled
common

on tap
available

Broad Distribution
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 Ratings  Average  Score  ABV  Style Pctl  Serve in 
7603.84/5.03.83/5.09.2%93.3Dimpled mug, Snifter, Stein
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Commercial Description:
The ice bock, also known as "Bayrisch Gefrorns", owes its discovery to a coincidence. According to the chronicles of the Kulmbacher brewery, some time around 1900 an apprentice forgot on a cold winter day to carry two barrels of bock beer into the brewery cellar. The barrels stayed outside, were covered by ice and snow and weren’t discovered until the following spring. The barrels had burst and the apprentice was reprimanded. But the carelessness was a stroke of luck because under the thick ice coat, a bock beer extract remained, strong tasting and high in alcoholic content.
Even if the dark, tasty speciality is not produced in this spectacular way anymore, the chance that gave birth to this beer became a tradition. Today this beer rarity is brewed in a modern brewing and freezing process, but the incomparable taste is still the same and can always be enjoyed in winter months.
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 xnoxhatex (1305), Grand Rapids/Chicago, Michigan, USA
3.4 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/103/56/104/514/20
Oct 16, 2007  
12 oz bottle from WLV Chicago. Dark brown almost black with creamy, small, tan head. Dough, plum and slight lager yeast aroma. Flavor is dark fruit, alc, caramel malt, sweet almost cloying, pretty nice though. Medium to full body, creamy. A pretty nice eisbock but not as good as Schloss Eggenberg’s version of the style.


 Beaver (588), Fort Collins, Colorado, USA
3.9 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/104/58/104/516/20
Oct 15, 2007  
11.2 oz bottle. Pours a dark ruby brown with a creamy off-white head that goes to a thin film and leaves some lacing.

The aroma is sweet candy-like caramel malts, chocolate, dark fruits and some alcohol.

The flavor is sweet sugary caramel malts, dark fruits, and some smoke, with some alcohol warming. A bit of a bitter finish comes out as it warms. The mouthfeel is medium to full with low carbonation.

Overall, it tastes like an extra-sweet doppelbock. It is very well done and tasty.


 Miksu (2192), Jyväskylä, Finland
3.9 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/105/57/104/515/20
Oct 12, 2007  
0.33 l bottle. Mahagony color with creamy head. Malty, bready, berryish, caramelly, toffeish and a bit vinous aroma. Sweet, malty and caramelly flavor with toffee, raisins and warming alcohol. Balanced and pleasant.


 Eructoblaster (1477), Gatineau, Quebec, Canada
4 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/103/58/104/517/20
Oct 11, 2007  
Bottle - Dark brown body with ruby glints and an average beith bubbly head. Nice and complex malty/hoppy aroma with hints of roasted cereals, chocolate, vanilla, plum and brown sugar. Alcohol is very well hidden. Taste shows a good balance. It carries sweet, fruity, toffeeish and roasty notes. Ends with a long, sweet and warming finish. Wonderful Eisbock!


 mcbackus (725), Merritt Island, Florida, USA
3.9 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
7/104/58/103/517/20
Oct 8, 2007  
bottle: pours a very dark dark brown with a grat looking looking tan head taht receeds rather quickly. aromas of dark fruits plums and raisins, sweet malts, some spice. flavour is is sweet malt some dark fruits like raisin on the finish back palate. some grain and roast finishes the flavour. very enjoyable and easy drinking for 9%.


 raymondwave (867), Finland
3.3 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
6/104/56/104/513/20
Oct 6, 2007  
Bottle 0.33 l BB 250907. Dark and deep red, clear. Malty like mämmi, sweet, sugar, syrup, ryeish, spicy (anise?) and a bit fruity. Not very roasted nor bitter. Alcoholic. Very dense and sticky overall, makes your tongue go a bit numb. Moderate carb.


 Skeegle (476), Maryland, USA
4.6 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
10/103/510/105/518/20
Oct 5, 2007    Updated: May 16, 2008
Amazing. The sweetest, succulentest beer man has produced. I would drink this beer before I went on a date with Carmen Electra. Unless she had a bottle of this. The nose is beautiful like a cherry pie covered in caramel, the mouthfeel is medium bodied with perfect carbonation and presence. Alcohol never presents itself even in warming times, and the finish leaves still images of dried overripe dark fruits all over the tongue. Amazing.


 LordCorkscrew (939), Ronco Scrivia (GE), Italy
3.7 Aroma Appearance Flavor Palate Overall
8/104/57/104/514/20
Sep 21, 2007  
La seconda - per fama - eisbock di Kulmbacher (la prima è ovviamente la bistrattata EKU 28), ha carattere meno aggressivo e meno "estremo" anche per l’inferiore gradazione alcolica e per un bilanciamento un poco più sensato nei sapori. Perde magari un poco di fascino, ma è decisamente più bevibile; forse andrebbe letta come una doppelbock semplicemente un po’ nutrita. Godibilissima.



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