Neuzeller Original Badebier (Bathbeer)

Brewed by Klosterbrauerei Neuzelle
Style: Schwarzbier
Neuzelle, Brandenburg, Germany

"Monastery Fun" - Nice labeling. "A nature-left product with the active components: natural carbonic acid, beer yeast, hop and alcohol." Doesn’t this part of the commercial description make you want to dive right in to this one? Actually, it’s pretty good. It pours a dark brown with ruby highlights and a slight tan head. The aroma is mainly roasted malts with some caramel and coffee added on. The flavor is all roasty with coffee, chocolate, caramel, and some smoke. There’s a small hit of the hops in the finish right before the final caramel sweetness kicks in one last time. Good schwartz.

(bottle) Dark brown to opaque colour with a medium foamy almost brown head with nice lace. Roastmalty aroma and a clear nose of caramel. Soft moderately sweet start with a malty taste and a note of coffee with a well-balanced malty hoppy dry finish with only light bitterness. A enjoyable Schwarzbier which could have a little more body.

bottle. Bath beer eh? people in Germany pour this into their bath water...ok but this bottle cost me about $3.80...I mean wow, better be really good for your skin or something! Anyways, I drank mine...poured a dark dark amber black with a foamy tan head that diminished, very very sweet malt taste, definite chocolate taste to it, some roasted flavor, so sweet though...I was almost put off by the sweetness, but i did enjoy it.

Pours a jet black with no head at all. Aroma is of a roasted cream. Very sweet smelling. Flavor is very smooth and creamy. A very earthy and peat flavor mixed with some sweet vanilla is how i would describe this one. Very sweet and thick and a differnt kind of a nice style.

Dark blackish hue, with an elusive foam, burnt toast, roasted malt, dark bitter chocolate, coffee, burnt grains aromas follow through a medium-bodied palate, with dark coffee, roasted coffee grains, hint of cacao saying hello!, within a discreet bitterness finish, coming from his roasted malt. only my nose had the chance to take a bath in this beer.

Pours black with tan head. Nose is smoky and reminds me of peat moss. Flavor is strange. Roasted chocolate malt. Thin body with little mouthfeel. Not a favorite.

One bottle from ’Beers of the world’ as a Christmas present. I do not enjoy beers with notes of coffee or a smokey malt taste.

Pours with a one-finger tan head that fades to nothing leaving no lace. Almost black. Medium carbonation and medium bodied. Nose is roasted coffee. Starts like a mild porter with some roasted coffee at the finish. $3.04 for a 500ml bottle from Oliver’s Beverages Albany, NY.