Portage WeizenBock
King Street Brewing Company in Anchorage, Alaska, United States 🇺🇸
Weizen - Weizenbock Regular|
Score
7.35
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Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Bottle thanks to SHIG! Pours a near clear slightly deep amber with a tan head that dissipates slowly to the edges. Aroma has a good amount of wine barrel supported by sweet grains and a bit of toffee. Flavor has an interesting combination of sweet wheat, toffee and a wine barrel note in the finish.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8.5
Bottle from the tasting room. Pours dark brown with a tan smear. Aroma of dark fruit and dark malt/toffee. Med body. Flavor is a bit like prune with some oak and dark malt. It’s really fairly tasty. A bit of chocolate plays with the fruit. Liking it.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Bottle from the source. Opaque dark brown color with some purple hues, creamy beige head with good retention and solid lacing. Aroma has chocolate covered prunes, plums, port wine. Taste is rich, malty, vinous dark fruit, dark chocolate, coffee, vanilla. Delicious.
CLW (16859) reviewed Portage WeizenBock from King Street Brewing Company 10 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
375 ml bottle courtesy of SHIG, thanks for the opportunity. 2014 printed on the label. Deep ruby/ brown color. Aroma is light yeast with mild tones of oak and grapes.
The body is medium and has a soft carbonation level. The flavor shows sugar, and lots of vinous hints with a oak finish. Secondary flavors of light yeast and dried fruits. I Have never had a weizenbock in a barrel, pretty cool to try.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
From my Anchorage haul.
This was poured into a weizen glass.
The appearance was a nice looking dark brown color with a thin film of a white head. It dissipated within a light half minute leaving barely any lacing.
The smell had a strong boozy sweet wheatiness with a light brown sugar to it. Light caramel malts make a slight showing but maintains a nice background as well.
The taste was sweet and had a nice wheat backup. There’s a nice sweet caramel strong boozy aftertaste leading into a semi-dry finish.
On the palate, this one sat about a medium to heavy on the body leaning towards a decent sipping quality, is it the barrel-aged quality that does this...possibly.
Overall, weizenbock - yes, barrel-aged - yes. Would I have this again, YES!
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
Bottle at Anchorage Dec ’14 Tasting: Poured a caramel brown color with bubble head. Aroma is very malt with a vinous wine hints. Taste was similar with a strong malt base and winey hints through.