Kulmbacher Eisbock

Brewed by Kulmbacher Brauerei (Schörghuber)
Style: Eisbock
Kulmbach, Germany

Malts and roastiness in the aroma. Pours a dark brown, but really quite a deep crimson amber when held to the light. Toffee and candy tones as brew approaches. Some fantastic maltiness with a sweet background that almost cloys, rides a fine line but manages to stay on the balanced side. Nice warming feeling down the back of the throat. A beautiful eisbock.

330 mL capped bottle [drink by 31.12.03, sampled 25.2.04]: a dark plum liquid with a dense, tightly bubble growing foam. Thick, chewy Grape-Nut aroma with strong dark wheat notes and fleshy alcoholic plums. Wonderful tingling carbonation. Full earthy flavours with soft sweet green apple meat, caramel raisins, thick syrupy malts, soft black breads, and bitter alcohol. Wonderfully full fruity finish.

Found this bottled at World Market in St. Charles, Illinois. Clear but opaque dark reddish-brown pour with a thick, foamy persistant light tan head. Toasty and strong nose of cherry, plum, oak, sherry and milk chocolate. Amazingly strong flavor of coffee, especially late, raisins, cocoa and caramelly sweetness. Finishes very strong, with a note of alcohol. This is a keeper, although couldn’t drink too many of these!

11.2 oz bottle, Mindestens altbar bis 22 10 04: I take this to mean best before 10/22/04. Room Temp. Hogwash!!!!!! Pours a deep mohagany w/ fantastic ruby highlights and a lasting cream colored, thick, head. Deeply malty! Toasted and bready malts, some slight smokiness(probably due to age), and a raisiny dark fruit character that have melded together wonderfully! Some hints of alcohol in the nose. Well balanced and port like in the flavor, but lightly so. Clean, lightly oxidized, but it adds to complexity of palate. Some dark raisiny fruity flavors, heavily malty with toasted malts and hints of deep caramel character that adds to the raisiny flavor. Hints of alcohol, but clean otherwise. Finish is malty and caramelized raisins, aftertaste has hints of roast. Full bodied, medium carbonation, and smooth. Alcohol is barely, and I mean barely evident. Wow!! If this stuff is over theh hill, sign me up for old age!!!!! Very nicely complex brew. 10.99/Six, I’m going to get the other 6 tomorrow!!!!

Pours ruddy and dark with a fine tan head that evaporates rather quickly. Smells oaky and sweet. Deep burn oak flavor that eases off the tongue to finish with a woody bitterness.

Bought at New World Distributors up in Manhattan 04.

This is a big black smoky grizzly bear of a Eisbock.. must have rolled in molasses dates and raisins… also must have found and stuck his head in the 30 year bourbon barrel… this beer is F-ing Rad!
Sticky, sweet, fruity and smoky... ahhh!

33 cL bottle, snifter. Caramel, dark chocolate, coffee, molasses malt (H); prune, port, brown sugar, soy sauce aromas. Mostly black body with hints of a deep brown holds a creamy but small and diminishing head. Heavily sweet, very lightly acidic flavor becomes a moderately sweet, lightly bitter finish. Full body, creamy/oily texture, lively carbonation. The bottom line is: great malt flavors, huge nose, excellent mouthfeel. This, my friends, is a barnburner!

On tap at the Huber Haus for the 2006 Bockfest. Outrageously smooth for a beer with this level of ethanol! Fruity in a raisin/plum maltiness way. Rich tan head atop a dark brown bier. This seems to have a little harsher palate in the bottle. I just can’t believe this is so strong in the draft version. Super sweet, but so strong that it does not seem out of whack. Yum.