Schell FireBrick

Brewed by August Schell Brewing Company
Style: Vienna
New Ulm, Minnesota USA

Pours a clear, highly carbonated, amber color with a reddish brown color with a thin white head. Aroma is a sweet malt with some apple notes, light citrus notes and nice vienna and caramel malt notes. Flavor has a nice biting malt note, light dryness to it, a light citrus and spicy hops note and ends with a smooth sweet caramel taste. Pretty light in body and it goes down pretty easy. Overall a pretty good brew, a bit on the light side for the styling but would definitely buy again.

Tap at Majors. Deep copper color and a faint malty aroma. Medium mouthfeel, with the malt again coming through as the main flavor for me. Decent beer, I’ll drink it again.

Pours a orangish color with a small, quickly diminishing head. sugary apple and weak hop aroma. Flavor is like rhubarb and dirt. Kinda nasty really. Molasses and oat mouthfeel. dirty floor aftertaste. Really all dirty malt, for you malt heads out there.

I’ve never rated firebrick?!? Pours a nice reddish copper color with a fluffy head. Aroma is fresh malt, very similar to that smell the lingers around breweries, with a mild hop presence. The flavor is a bright maltiness slightly spicy, rosy, with a zing of noble and citrus hops. There is a nice caramel thing happening all over this beer with just a faint smokiness, everything is kept fairly dry with that caramel malt just shining through keeping it al balanced. This is an old favorite that I had lost some love for over the years, but this bottle tastes great to me.

Have had from the bottle and on tap. Not a bad beer, but from from impressing by any means.

12oz bottle. Filtered brown-orange color. Thin, but respectable head. Sweet medium-dark malt aroma, a touch of seawater. Smooth and sessionable, medium bodied. There is some faint, dry, sandy hop bitterness that helps to balance out the deep, sweet malt tones. Pretty well done, though certainly not world class. Lacks some depth, certainly.

This beer ihas a medium copper color with a light head and little lacing. It has aromas of malt, a bit of grain and caramel with a hint of sweetness that I can’t place. It tastes slightly malty, sweet and a hint of bitterness. It hit’s the back of the tongue with a bit of bitterness then vanishes. Good carbination and goes down easy with no long lingering aftertaste. This is definitely a good session beer. This is one of the better examples of this style. Not the best but still worth the price.

At brewery. A nice rich amber with good head. Aroma of caramel and malt. Flavor a bit of caramel overpowering the hops. Not as refreshing as some in this style. A little weak on the finish, without a totally clean finish. OK.