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Brewery: Kulmbacher Braueri
Name: Kulmbacher Eisbock
Style: German Eisbock
Origin: Germany
Bottle: 12 oz.
ABV: 9.2%
Appearance: A deep burgundy-maroon that is very close to black.
Pours: Without much more than typical fanfare found in any other beer; A beige head frothing up an inch or so. Almost a classic goth feel to it like Poe or Brönte.
Smell: Toffee and mixed fruit or minced pie.
Taste: A strong slam of alcohol is noticeable right away. Wait a bit and you get nice bit of Bourbon; and Turbonado/brown sugar along with a sticky bun or Pecan pie. Those sugars really accelerate that alcohol flavor. Not a surprise once you know that Eisbocks are made by freezing then removing the ice leaving behind concentrated levels of sugar and alcohol. As it warms up that mince pie taste comes through a bit more but is still greatly overshadowed. Wait too long however and the brown sugar is overpowering.
At its peak this needs some Romanticist era classical full of pathos and reflection or stream some old episodes of Masterpiece Theatre.
Mouthfeel: A sticky honey-and-alcohol like Barenjaeger in a subtly carbonated shell.
Rating: 6.0 After awhile its an 8.27. Not bad once you let it get up to room temperature and drink it sparingly and periodically. Had I not waited I would’ve rated this around a 6.3 or so. But after awhile it just tastes like a cloying glass of raw sugar. A regret inducing 3.6. So, averaged out to 6.0.
Still, that alcohol cuts in like someone railroading a story someone’s telling with rude or base assumptions and expectations. As if MLK said
“I had a dream! A drea-“
“Yeah yeah you were naked in class and forgot your homework big whoop. Oh! did you hear about my dream?! You see there was this totally hot bitch and...” ~eyeroll~
I’d love to experience the myriad nuances and flavors this beer has to offer that, I can taste, but I feel I’m missing too much as that sugar-fueled alcohol just blares out too harshly for my preference and muffles the other aspects. This is taking me the better part of two hours to get through.
Interesting little history note on the bottle: Eisbock was inadvertently invented in Kulmbach one bitter winter day when an apprentice brewer accidentally left wooden barrels of bockbier in the brewery yard, causing them to burst. When the ice was chipped away, a richer, more concentrated dark lager remained inside the barrels.
Name: Kulmbacher Eisbock
Style: German Eisbock
Origin: Germany
Bottle: 12 oz.
ABV: 9.2%
Appearance: A deep burgundy-maroon that is very close to black.
Pours: Without much more than typical fanfare found in any other beer; A beige head frothing up an inch or so. Almost a classic goth feel to it like Poe or Brönte.
Smell: Toffee and mixed fruit or minced pie.
Taste: A strong slam of alcohol is noticeable right away. Wait a bit and you get nice bit of Bourbon; and Turbonado/brown sugar along with a sticky bun or Pecan pie. Those sugars really accelerate that alcohol flavor. Not a surprise once you know that Eisbocks are made by freezing then removing the ice leaving behind concentrated levels of sugar and alcohol. As it warms up that mince pie taste comes through a bit more but is still greatly overshadowed. Wait too long however and the brown sugar is overpowering.
At its peak this needs some Romanticist era classical full of pathos and reflection or stream some old episodes of Masterpiece Theatre.
Mouthfeel: A sticky honey-and-alcohol like Barenjaeger in a subtly carbonated shell.
Rating: 6.0 After awhile its an 8.27. Not bad once you let it get up to room temperature and drink it sparingly and periodically. Had I not waited I would’ve rated this around a 6.3 or so. But after awhile it just tastes like a cloying glass of raw sugar. A regret inducing 3.6. So, averaged out to 6.0.
Still, that alcohol cuts in like someone railroading a story someone’s telling with rude or base assumptions and expectations. As if MLK said
“I had a dream! A drea-“
“Yeah yeah you were naked in class and forgot your homework big whoop. Oh! did you hear about my dream?! You see there was this totally hot bitch and...” ~eyeroll~
I’d love to experience the myriad nuances and flavors this beer has to offer that, I can taste, but I feel I’m missing too much as that sugar-fueled alcohol just blares out too harshly for my preference and muffles the other aspects. This is taking me the better part of two hours to get through.
Interesting little history note on the bottle: Eisbock was inadvertently invented in Kulmbach one bitter winter day when an apprentice brewer accidentally left wooden barrels of bockbier in the brewery yard, causing them to burst. When the ice was chipped away, a richer, more concentrated dark lager remained inside the barrels.
Category Photography / Miscellaneous
Species Unspecified / Any
Size 894 x 1280px
File Size 180.7 kB
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