Penn Penndemonium

Brewed by Pennsylvania Brewing Company
Style: Heller Bock
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania USA

Pours a clear amber color with a thick, creamy, off-white head that leaves a little lacing. Aroma of sweet malty grain with some apples and a dash of hops. The flavor is almost overpoweringly sweet. Raisins and a grainy bitterness with some very noticeable alcohol notes. Some apricot and a little bit of vanilla in the finish. A medium to heavy body that leaves a bittersweet taste in the mouth.

Tampa. Fl. - Total Wines - 22 oz bottle oz bomber. Bright medium golden pour with a thin white head that dissipates quickly. Brief aroma of hard candy and fresh lake water. Flavor has some brief maple syrup, hint of cotton candy and perhaps some toffee. Nothing in here sets your taste buds on fire, but a pleasant diversion. Clean. even mouthfeel.

Deep golden in color with a fluffy off-white head of medium-sized bottles. The nose gives off sweet aromas of caramel, malt, candied oranges and bananas foster. In the mouth this was medium-bodied with nice richness in the midpalate as well as an oiliness. Simple but well-balanced.

You know the biggest problem with this beer? That it came in a 22oz bottle. It would’ve been a perfectly nice sipper with dinner, not to obrusive but nicely flavorful (a little citrus, a little pine, nice malt base), but a bomber size, I was ready to move on after half a bottle, and actually kinda resented it by the end of the bottle.

50cl bottle from Total Wine (Tampa). Pours a clear amber with a one finger, frothy white head that laces the glass. Aroma is bread, yeast, straw, grass. Flavor is also a bit bready with notes of hops, malt and some faint sweetness (like caramel or honey). Light to medium mouthfeel with a quick finish.

Amberish gold with a medium creamy head. Aroma is slightly sulfuric but mostly a heavy breadiness with a touch of alcohol. There’s perhaps some toffee in that. Flavor is strongly bready toffee malts, almost cloying, with a thickish, vaguely tannic/grainy wring to the cheeks. Tangy. Creamy palate, clean fermentation (having said that, there might be just a hint of DMS) and hidden alcohol distinguish this from malt liquor.

Pours clear gold with a quick fizzling head akin to ginger ale. Zero head, retention, or lacework. Aromatics filled with sweet malt, honey, bread dough, and a hint of butter. The mouthfeel is thinnish with some slick residuals. Slightly tacky. Honey-drizzled malt lead off the pallet, with some underlying orangy notes following through. Bitterness is balancing, and hopping in general is minimal, except for the tangerine-like citrus. Alcohol is warming, but quite subdued and this is one quite drinkable. Finishes with some lingering honey residuals and clean malt. Pretty tasty and easily pegged as a big Maibock. What happened to the carbonation and head? Perhaps its way past prime..No dating on the bottle, so no way too tell.

Bottle; poured a dull, dark gold. Big white head. Some visible carbonation streams. Aroma of biscuit, bread, yeast and grass/earth/flowers. Palate was ok. Flavor was straightforward; alcohol, yeast, biscuit. Not much hop presence. Lacked in great flavor, but it was ok.