Maisel St. Michaelsberg Kellerbier

Formerly brewed at Maisel Bräu Bamberg
Style: Zwickel/Keller/Landbier
Bamberg, Oberfranken/Bayern, Germany

Bottle: Pours a lightly hazy copper color with very little head and carbonation, no lacing. The nose is toasty and ripe with some fig and herbal hop notes. The flavor is balanced but with the lighter carbonation, it falls a little flat on the mouthfeel. Heavy and biscuity, raw almost, with a dry and disappointing finish.

I can only compare this to Mahr’s Ungespundert and St. Georgenbrau Keller and would say that I don’t think that this has the depth of flavor of the other two, but it does have that really nice duality of earthy and not terribly sweet malt which is dried out with a blunt bitterness. I love the style and I like this beer.

(Bottle 50 cl) Courtesy of KimJohansen. Pous a hazy golden with a small, rough white head. Clean and malty aroma. Medium body, malty with floral accents and a fairly dry and hoppy finish. 130608

In the 0.5L bottle from HyVee CB. Pours a butterscotch golden amber with nearly no head at all. Quite low in carbonation. Malty aroma and matching flavor, this tastes a bit like a medicinal concoction or even quinine. Not bad, just not what I had expected.

Pour is a bright orange with a very small white head. Aroma is toasted caramel malts and a nice dark fruit character. Flavor is very earthy English style hop with a nice dose of strong dark malts followed by a plum aftertaste. Its not often that you get a new kellerbier in the area but i think that this one hits all the right spots to make this an above par offering.

Slightly simple and one dimensional, but still very drinkable, with a solid toasty malt background, had that neutral barrel aged taste, slightly oxidized and musty, but still pretty clean overall, just tastes kind of tired.

(bottle thanks for sharing badgerben!) Pours light amber with no head whatsoever. Sweet and grainy aroma with a light bit of hops. Taste is initially sweet but rounds out to a grainy finish. Nothing too complex, but not offensive in any way.

Copper color with no head. Light aroma of Noble hops and caramel malt. Malt taste is quite dry. Some floral hop. Very clean finish. A solid session lager that actually has some flavor.