Neuzeller Original Badebier (Bathbeer)

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

A black beer with a disappearing brown head. The aroma is sweet with light notes of roasted malt and chocolate. The flavor is somewhat weird, roasted and with slight notes of chocolate. The body is thin.

(Bottle 50 cl) Pitch black - almost opaque - with a weak, reddish glow. Handsome, light brown head. Very soft and pleasant, without the sharp, ashy edge that sometimes haunt Schwarzbiers. Has added alcohol! Neuzeller never really cared too much about the Reinheitsgebot.... 100203

50 cL bottle. Pours visible brown with a golden redish glare and a creamy and tan head. Roasted malt aroma and with dried fruit accents. Flavour is dry breadish malt - towards roasted. Quite clean and pleasing. Mild dried fruity note following. Goes into a nice finish with notes of fruit and more of the smooth roasted breadish malt flavours.

Bottle, 5.2%. Brown sugar aroma. Almost black colour, seems cloudy. Small tan head. The flavour is sweet and bready, a bit one-dimensional.

Draft. Clear brown coloured with a small off white head. Roasted aroma of malts with notes of grain. Roasted flavour of malts with hoppy notes.

Name: Original Bathbeer
Date: 01/20/2002
Mode: Bottle
Source: Whole Foods Market

Black, frothy tan head, sweet malt aroma, hints of roasted malt, thin body, roasted malt flavor, a touch of roasted malt bitterness, just a little essence of chocolate after it warms

Aroma: 5/10; Appearance: 5/10; Flavor: 5/10; Palate: 5/10; Overall: 10/20
Rating: 2.6/5.0
Score: *4
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Almost black; Toasty aroma - slight coffee; palate has dry, husky dark malts....then the problems start showing up. There is too much carbonation, and the body gets thin. As it warms, cardboardy flavours come out. Clearly, this sample has spent too much time in the distribution chain. The flavours are pretty good (like a cappucino & a peanut doughnut), though, so a fresh bottle would be worth drinking. I have ignored the flaws as best as I could in my rating.

Near black body with gray-brown head. Aroma is coffee, moderately sweet. Taste is sugared coffee, with cream even -- not as oversweetened as the Black Abbot (thank goodness), but still too sweet for my taste.