Neuzeller Closter Zell (Golden Abbot)

Brewed by Klosterbrauerei Neuzelle
Style: Premium Lager
Neuzelle, Brandenburg, Germany

Pours a yellow orange with a slight lasting white head. This beer is a school in malt, all wrapped up in one glass (or bottle). Huge malty/bready aroma. Big malty smooth bread flavor. Lingers. I don't think there are any hops in this that I can talk about, so hopheads beware and avoid. I love the malt character of this brew and wish I could use this as a base for an IPA for it would win every homebrew competition in the world.

Marcipan and potato malt aroma. Orange amber, low carbonation, lowish creamy head. Fruity sweet malt flavors, bitterhop afterplay. A bit too sweet but otherwise solid.

Medium dark amber color,small fast fading head.Malty sweet aroma with a very faint hop presence slightly heavy feel.The taste is malty sweet and slightly caramel.the after taste was malty and caramely and fairly sweet.nothing special but IMO a fairly decent brew.

A Lot of Dortmunder/Helles influence in this. Deep golden, medium head and great lacing. Bready malts and lots of fresh mown grass - strange coincidence that I drank one right after mowing my lawn, so I had something to compare it to. Refreshing and nice.

Classy looking tall-thin necked 16oz. brown bottle, classy label and even the cap is classy. Color is a direct reason for the name, at least thats my take, its a solid haze of gold color a little more clear at the bottom of the glass. Thinly topped of loose glue-like white bubbles which faded in a snap, leaves a thin ring and tiny spotty lace. Smell is all sweet malts, hints of caramel and honey, a hard candy-like sense lingers in the the nose. Taste is also all malts, sweet, in a easy fruity sense, creamy, smooth, rich, like a liquid Jolly Rancher of malt, a bit of caramel like smoothness and taste as well. Full body feel, rich, and creamy smooth with a thinning fruitish presense in the finish. Pretty good pleasing malt crazy lager.

Amber color with a thin quickly dissipating head. A very sweet soy sauce aroma, ah this smells just like J.W. Lees Harvest Ale, nasty. Very sweet, for a lager, malt taste with a slightly dry finish. The aroma is just too off to recommend this beer.

Slightly hazy, light amber body with medium off-white froth. Aroma is mildly sweet and grassy. Taste is pretty sweet, honey and caramel, malty, very bock-ish. Ever so slight bitterness in the aftertaste. Definitely an improvement over the Black Abbot, but still nothing you'd want to seek out.

Golden colored liquid. Good head. Nice aroma with some nice malt. Good sweetness. Nice beer.