Weltenburger Kloster Asam Bock

Brewed by Klosterbrauerei Weltenburg
Style: Doppelbock
Kelheim, Niederbayern, Germany

This was a great beer. Very strong in flavor highly carbonated. Great head with a dark brown color. Nice and cloudy just as syle would dictate. Good strong bread aroma no esthers sweet with an awesome flavor.

Clear and dark, with reddish overtones that become more visible as the amount of beer in the glass diminishes, with a huge coffee colored head that fades and leaves lacing down the side of the glass. Great complexity, with sweet dark roast, coffee and chocolate, bitter hops, and a slightly sour undertown, with a chocolate and bitter finish. Kind of dry tannic mouthfeel and an alcohol warmth. Celebrator is a more striking doppelbock, but this is easier to drink.

Sampled from bottle. Pours a clear, very dark brown with a ruby tint. A thick tan head tops this bock and nice lace is present down the glass. Aroma is intense malt with some prune notes. Flavor is balanced with complex malt, much like molasses. No hops in the aroma or flavor. Full-bodied, smooth and warming with low to moderate carbonation.

09.01.01. Ruby with brown streaks and a thin, tan head. Sweet, malty aroma of varied nuts, caramel, brown sugar, some light chocolate, licorice and a touch of warm alcohol. The body is smooth and easy on the tongue, but not as thick or robust as I would have hoped. The flavors have melded well, almost too well, making this seem one-dimensional, as opposed to robust and complex. The sweentess and light roasted character almost completely cancel each other out. The finish is dry and warming. I wasn’t sure what the date on the label translates to (YMD? DMY? MDY?), but my guess is that this beer has been around for a while. I’d love to try a fresh example of this. Perhaps if I’d paid attention at the grocery store over the past couple of years, I might have been able to...

Bottle. Sweet aroma, dried fruit. Cloudy, reddish, dark brown colour. Thick stable head. Nice flavour. Malty, well-balanced alcohol flavour. Coffee aftertaste. Very satisfying.

Caramalized sugar, roasty malt aroma. Pours a rich dark amber. Strong roasted malt flavor, molasses flavor. Feels heavy and thick on the tongue. Not really for me. re-rate 7-17-07 Huge roasty aroma, caramalized sugars, and molasses, i was right on with this 2 years ago. Still pours brown/dark amber. Smooth malty flavor, roasty, i definitely appreciate this beer a lot more now. Very smooth, doesn’t seem to linger.

Dark and complex, with notes of chocolate, molasses, and anissette shining through heavily with notes of spice.

New beer to Florida

Pours a gloomy crimson black body and a towering tan head. The beer is nearly room temperature at this point…. The aroma and flavor are heavy with molasses, dates, raisins, and plums… dark pitted fruits rolled through molasses and peppered with spicy tobacco shavings. Suggestions of chocolate covered cherries, kilned malts, the bready smokiness of baked pumpernickel, toffee, brown sugar, coffee with sweetened cream…. A delectable treat fit for a brisk Autumn’s evening… and although the leaves are turning, it still feels like summer here in Florida...