Spezial Ungespundet

Brewed by Brauerei Spezial
Style: Zwickel/Keller/Landbier
Bamberg, Oberfranken/Bayern, Germany

Draught @ Spezial. Citrus aroma, light yeasty. Hazy yellow color with a white foamy head. Fruity, light yeasty flavor. Citrus and grapefruite notes. Fresh, thirst quentching. Dry end. Fruity, tasty beer.

(6/31/08) Draught at the brewpub in Bamberg. Cloudy appearance (it actually looks like there are clouds there!) with a big white head. Aroma of some malt and nice fresh hoppiness. A rather dry hoppy flavor with some grass and some citrus notes. Medium-bodied. Very nice.

At the brewery tap Creamy, off-white head. Almost no lace. Sligtly hazy, golden body. A fresh aroma of flowers, orange, lemonade, ... There’s a medicine, called lycomucil, that smells like. Very well balanced fruity flavour. Lightly sweet, moderately bitter.

Draft - Darker golden body, very slight hazy body, white head; Very fresh nose that is hard to take apart; Malt bitter body with some sparkle, very balanced to the almost boring; Long malt bitter finish with a very little malt aroma. The hop is strangely enough very apparent the the finishing burb.

amazing complex spicy hoppy smell, like westmalle tripel or something. main flavour here is the really full hops - really spicy, peppery, herbal, salty, bitter and dry finishing. texture is beautifully creamy but light. i don't know if this is supposed to be smokey like the others - i couldn't taste much smokiness. but who cares, it's a beautiful beer.

Vom fass @ Spezial, Bamberg, Germany.
One of the last beers I got to taste before heading out of this wonderfully picturesque, almost unspoilt town, before continuing south to the states beer capital - München.
Into a stein glass. Hazy, straw-gold in body. Very finely, intermittently carbonated, rising to a half inch of sticky, condensed white foam that held out and laced wildly down the glass. Aroma, like all Kellerbiers, was complex but this one was more definable than others. Damp, mown grass pierced the ol-factories first before waning to reveal some fresh chopped herbs, ripe fresh squeezed lemon and limes, and a waft of gritty, dusty pale malts underneath. In the mouth it is soft but full of life, inkling and entering every corner of the mouth like it owns the palate. A wonderfully gripping base of summer malts settles in first, before some ripe, tart and tight fruits and the sweeter edges of mango and grapefruit make themself comfortable. Body is light but firm and it is rather smooth, even creamy as it heads for the tonsils and then south. A little sour malt shines across the sides of the tongue. In the back it has a depth of spicy, grassy and herbal hop tones that give it a nice bitter, biting edge before it drops off with a long malt and hop swallow that has just a little more fruit. Very quenching stuff. It remains good for the length and seems to get more complex as it warms showing some pine-nuts, pale honey and peat on the tongue that linger well as it goes. Lovely stuff, one to surely bring pale lagers up a notch. A superb Kellerbier.

Enjoyed many a half liter at the brewery pub in Bamburg, Germany. This beer is an unfiltered pils, and similar to St. Georgen Brau Kellerbier. This beer pours to a opaque, pale golden color with a white head that fades, and a soft carbonation. The nose on this beer is very inviting with herbal/grassy hop aromas, and hints of crisp pilsner malt. The palate is soft and round with good pale malt flavors, on a smooth and drinkable body. Spezial Ungespundet finishes with good pilsner malt flavor up front, then ends with a nice grassy hop bitterness that lingers. This beer is outstanding, very fresh, and very flavorful tasted on draught at source. It was a great beer to enjoy with a lunch of sauerkraut and bratwurst.

(draught at the Spezial Gaststätte, Bamberg) pours a hazy golden colour with a frothy white head. aroma of lightly grainy pale malts, honey, floral and herbal hops and light yeast. flavour is the same, with lovely flowery hops. medium body and carbonation.