The tasting time has officially started, and I thought to keep things more clean, we should start a thread for this instead of have all the discussion going on in the “let’s make online tasting” thread.
Heading to the Weisses Brauhaus later tonight, I am psyched!
No Aventinus before trying the Eisbock, so this one is quite the intense start. Over the last year or so, it grew on me, so I’m psyched to write a thorough rating.
Bottled September 6, 2017. At the brewpub.
Hazy brown color with creamy off-white head. Aroma is figs, raisins, chocolate, sweet overripe banana, cloves, vanilla, estery, a touch strawberry. Taste is raisins, sweet bananas, cloves, vanilla, phenolic, a bit nutty, wood. Silky mouthfeel with soft but high carbonation. Seems a bit oxidized, already at this young age.
8-5-8-4-17
0.1 better than my previous rating, which was 8-5-8-4-16, but I think a better bottle could score even higher. I’m pretty sure I’ve had better bottles of this beer this year, but I never rerated.
At Weisses Brauhaus with @SinH4 Not totally enamoured today: Seems a bit harsh wooden and oxidized and less rounded to me, boozy plum notes, agressive cloves, mineral yeast.
6-4-8-3-16
In all seriousness I wish Ratebeer would write dates like that for beer added and date we rated etc. it would make things so much clearer and and easier for everyone, at the moment it only caters to Americans which makes it feel very BeerAdvocatey
I really should have gotten another glass. Don’t crucify me, you guys.
8/3/8/4/16. Small, pearly tan-brown head on a cloudy, dark brown body. Leather, plum, artificial strawberry aroma, some wheat, licorice, light nail polish remover, pear, faint banana, some fermentation aroma. Medium to high sweetness, without being too sticky, a bit tart. Creamy mouthfeel, medium bodied, pearly but soft carbonation. Although it’s rather sweet, it almost feels light and drinks like juice.
Bro, that NEIPA is totally dank, like…ripe banana. Dude.