Ramstein Winter Wheat

Brewed by High Point Brewing Company
Style: Weizen Bock
Butler, New Jersey USA

Pours black, tan head. One smell and you know that it is a wheat beer! Smooth flavor with a nice follow though. Must be the New Jersey water!

12 oz bottle purchased at the Oak. Pours a deep dark brownish/black with a thin coating of carboantion on my glass and an initial huge light tan frothy head that quickly and totally dispates. Aroma of chocolate, vinous notes and slight wheat in the back ground. Thin watery mouthfeel with slight stingy carbonation that dances around on the back of my throat. Flavor starts off with lots of vinegar and vinous qualities but moves onto a slight bitersweet chocolate that turns into total chocolate on the aftertaste. This beer has the best aftertaste that I have ever had and hides the alcohol very nicely. Interresting beer that is definitely worth trying.

Warm, glowing pour of blackened burgundy with a glow of electric red underneath. Aroma of banana, clove, almond oil; some spicy funk of sun dried tomato and dry paprika with a slippery sweetness of caramel toward the end. Salty, fruity, zesty. Bursting with sharp clove flavor and given to heavy bubblegum sweetness with hints of seared purple onions, balsamic reduction, and powdery pepper. Carbonation seems a bit reckless and impossible to restrain; medium bodied and irreparably sharp in the mouth. Faint chocolate and hazelnut precede another whisk of brisk spice in the finish . The elements are definitely in place, but the final impression is lacking in some indescribeable way. Wheat may just present a bit too strongly, enough so to suffocate the depth of malt that this style needs to properly balance it. Thanks Andrew!

Draught: Aroma of fruit, roasting, spices, and a hint of smoke. Poured black in color with a small, creamy, tan head that diminished but lasted. Opaque. No lacing. Medium sweet flavor. Flavor of spices, cloves, nutmeg, bubblegum, malts, and chocolate. Light to medium body. Thin, chalky texture. Soft carbonation. Sweet, spiced finish.

12-oz. Thanks, Kim! Black with clear orange and toffee highlights. Headless, laceless. Huge toffee and caramel nose. Medium body, light carb. Light sour wheat on the mid-palate. Roast and chocolate notes appear as well. Cookieish finish.

NorCal December ’07 tasting - In many ways, this beer reminded me of Aventinus, which is a good thing. Maybe not quite as complex and rich as it, but still an outstanding beer just the same. A big aroma of chocolate, cherries, molasses, sweet malts and bready yeasts (sort of reminds me of a scented candle you might light for Christmas). Appearance is dark brown in color with an off-white head. Flavor is quite excellent with the noted cherries, chocolate, cloves, and allspice. Supple carbonation makes this beer outstanding.

I was very impressed with this beer. Deep rich flavor, almost had a texture to it. Very nice mouthfeel and very very nice hidden alcohol content.

The first of the darker wheat beers I’ve tried. Nice rich dark brown/near black color with just a hint of bubbly foamy head. Hints of clove and and chocolate in the flavor. A quality winter offering, and definitely recommended.