New Glarus Symposium Eisbock

Formerly brewed at New Glarus Brewing Company
Style: Eisbock
New Glarus, Wisconsin USA

Date: 12/05/2003
Mode: Bottle
Source: Tasting

dark amber, rich sweet malt aroma and flavor, rich like a barleywine, nice balancing bitter finish, hot alcohol essence,
-------- /> Date: 05/10/2006
Words: Bottle
Words: Tasting

clear dark brown, whispy beige head, touch of drippy lace, huge rich sweet malt aroma with hints of dark fruit, big body at first but ends up very thin, sticky sweet malt flavor, well balanced with an earthy hop quality, good ripe fruit quality, long light bitterness in the finish, touch of oxidation shows after a while

Aroma: 8/10; Appearance: 8/10; Flavor: 8/10; Palate: 6/10; Overall: 17/20
Rating: 4/5.0
Drinkability: 6/10
Score: **4

Bottle shared by goldtwins: Pours a transparent dark copper mahogany with a thin, lightly-lacing light tan head. Rich, sweet complex caramel malty aroma has a very nice authentic bock character and mild dark fruits. Body starts with a good viscous caramel maltiness, subtle dark fruit and chocolate character. Finishes drier, slightly earthy with some lingering bittersweet dark chocolate. Very nicely balanced and complex. Seems to have aged quite well.

Brewed for the 2000 National Craft Brewer’s Conference and Brew Expo America. Clear garnet mohagany with a small bubbled tan head. Sweet dark fruit and malt aroma. Suprisingly light in body, but a nice smooth glide across the tongue. Malt dominated as style appropriate. Sweetness hits hard at first but rapidly fades to a dry warming mild spicy alcohol finish. Lingering pieces of dark caramel, chocolate and mild coffee in the finish. Very nice - even after 2-1/2 years.

<!-- b -->Rating 1400:<!-- /b --> Big thanks to Degarth for this rare treat. Disclaimer:This beer is 6 years old and I am rating it based on what it tastes like now. Not if it was an Eisbock in 2000. Poured a clear dark brown color with copper edges and a thin beige head. Thick and sweet aroma of finely aged malt. Not papery oxidized malt but just aged malt. Notes of prunes, wood and molasses. It smells great. Sweet aged malt makes up the flavor. A good amount of dark fruits. Light to medium body. This could be the only place that age could have been negative to the beer. It was fantastic. Somebody seems to have taken very good care of this beer. It lends the answer to "Can beers be aged?"

Props go to MrFacto for procuring this rare and exceptional treat! Poured a deep ruddy brown with a fairly-retained cap of beige head. Hazy, with some visible carbonation and sediment in the pour. Deep, rich dark fruity malts, mild oak, oxidization, and Port wine in the complex and excellent nose. Flavor was much like the aroma, with a rich, dark fruity base, toffee, and woodiness... alcohol emerged with warmth, but only as complementary to the other goodness. Creamy and rich on the palate... other than mild oxidization, age has treated this very well! Fantastic!

Thanks Matt! The beer pours to a caramel chestnut body with a thin beige head. The aroma is very good. Woodsy old ale aromas. Very good, delicate, balanced malts and sugars. I thought it held up well. The flavor is also woodsy old ale-ish. Perhaps that’s oxidation? Either way, I didn’t think it matters because it was still quite good. The palate is carbonated with a medium body and good texture. Bring this beer back Dan!

12 oz bottle from 2000 <P> Huge malty, brown sugar, molasses, fresh pumpernickel and dark fruit aroma. Body is a deep brown color with a quickly fading wispy white head. Fore is very bready..pumpernickel notes galore. Quite malty, some caramel notes, slight oxidation gives it an almost barley wine finish. Finish also holds mild dark fruit notes, but the pumpernickel flavors are what linger in the far aftertaste. Alcohol is more felt (via flushed cheeks and a hot throat) than tasted. <P> It has held up pretty dang well and having recently had many NG beers for the first time I am quite impressed with this brewery. It is definitely at the top of my "favorite" breweries list now.

Thanks to Matt dark brown pour thick tan head w/ some nice lacing. Giant malty aroma huge brown sugar & molasses plums mmm. Palate is full and well coated, lightly creamy. Flavor reminds me of an old ale hugly malty brown sugar touches of carmel touches of plum and molasses. Very very sweet. Quite good.