Schwelmer Bernstein

Brewed by Brauerei Schwelm
Style: Vienna
Schwelm, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany

(German) Light Orange/Brown color, with sm-White Head. Average style Beer with sweet finish. Not Bad!!!

Aroma is malty, bread, yeast, some mild spice, ruce and corn flakes. Taste is the same. Like a suped up Bud Reserve. Not my style.

The bottle looks good, but not spectacular. The beer is very dark, fine foam. The flavor is dry, somehow "hard", not really balanced, metallically. Not a good beer.

Poured from bottle (1 ltr Grolsch style). Malty, cider smell. Dark gold color, minimal head. Slightly toasted malt flavor with an interesting mellow hop in back taste. Very good feel and finish. A good beer. Retried a couple weeks later - aroma not an issue this time.

explosive pop to the flip top was impressive and it poured a frothy 4 finger head with fierce carbonation holding it up. hazy gold and saaz hop aroma with orange notes. clean sweet malt lingers gracefully with minimal hop balance. pleasantly unexpected

Bottle. Moderate yeasty, a hint of vinegar. Red / amber clear body, average foamy white head, fully disappearing. Light bitter, short duration. Rather light body, dry & watery texture, flat carbonation. Nothing special...

This is part of a beer club tasting. Only had one bottle but it was a decent taste for the price. Would like to try again after it poured great and left a nice after taste.

16.9 oz. bottle. Nice, almost dunkel-like aroma features milk chocolate, raisin, and plum scents. Softer and less sharp aroma than I usually experience in the Vienna style. Strong smell for a lager. Pours a clear, sparkling, effervescent deep gold to light amber color. Small to moderate amount of light beige head. Produces a modicum of lacing. Cool look from the large quantity of long-lasting bubbling. The beer tastes more like a classic Vienna and less like a dunkel than the aroma suggests. Still, there is a light chocolate element to the flavor. Surprisingly dry and bitterly hoppy, especially since this isn’t exactly the most freshly brewed beer that I’ve tasted. This low-alcohol lager has been sitting in my wine fridge for months, after months of sitting in the cooler at Blue Max Liquors. Finish features an unexpected but not bad Italian spices-like taste. Overall, not very complex flavors, but what do you expect from the Vienna style? Long, bitter aftertaste. Light to medium body. Very lively and sharp on the tongue and in the throat, an extreme version of classic lager palate sensations. Schwelmer Bernstein is an interesting beer and much better than the fairly low score here at RateBeer indicates. A strong entry in the style.