Fire & Eisbock
Mammoth Brewing Company in Mammoth Lakes, California, United States 🇺🇸
Eisbock / Freeze Distilled Regular|
Score
6.76
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Brewing in the land of fire & ice (the Eastern Sierra) since 1995 has brought us to this style of beer, where we use a long intense boil to concentrate color, flavor, and natural sugars. Then, after fermentation, we freeze no more than 2% of the water content out of the beer. This concentrates the alcohol and smooths out the flavor for a true winter seasonal. Like the bliss of a “one swing stick” into ice, this beer will distill your attention down to the single focus of the bend of your elbow. Fire & Eisbock will age well, but do drink one now to compare with our barrel-aged eisbock.
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6/10
Tried
on 24 Jun 2016
at 13:54
7.5/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 9
Bottle (from beer gonzo). Pours amber with beige head. The head doesn’t stay. Aroma is malty, some sweetness, nutty notes and alcohol. Flavor is sweet and bitter, malt, caramel, nutty notes, and some booze. Overall: very good, feels like proper bock ice distilled.
Tried
from Bottle
on 07 May 2016
at 14:09
6.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Pour is a clear amber with a huge tan head. Aroma is a dark fruit with some brown sugar and alcohol. Flavor is a huge sweetness followed by a little raison but then comes another huge dose of sugar. I think the brewer added as much sugar as possible to get the gravity up as high as possible without thinking about how sickingly sweet this beer would turn out. I don’t have enough eisbocks to even compare this to another but this is a super sweet beer which will be a major hangover producer.
Tried
on 05 Mar 2016
at 18:30
6.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6
@Pauls new condo Tasting-22oz bottle shared by jtclockwork-dissipating lt tan-dk copper. A-med fruit, spice, med malt. T-earthy/herbal, med fruit, med malt.
Tried
from Bottle
on 28 Jul 2013
at 17:22
6.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 6
Flavor 6
Texture 6
Overall 6.5
Bottle from TWalls. Pours with clear deep amber hue with a medium-sized off-white head. Good retention and lace. Aromas are of light banana esters, caramelization, melanoidins, toasted malt, some raisins and dried fruit. Flavors are of: medium malt richness, somewhat dry finish, medium malt, lightly odd vegetal, medium fruity brown sugar, light melanoidins. Feels a bit thin. Nothing too off. Brown sugar, cereal and raisins with a dry finish. Fuller carbonation, a bit warming.
Tried
from Bottle
on 28 Jul 2013
at 03:23
6.8/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 7
Texture 6
Overall 7
Bottle shared at Paul’s. Pours reddish brown with white head. Nose and taste of toffee, caramel, sherry, fruit cake and cherry wood. Touch of alcohol in the finish. Medium body.
Tried
from Bottle
on 27 Jul 2013
at 23:16
7.6/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 6
Flavor 7
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Bomber from The Davis Beer Shoppe. Pours clear dark ruddy copper with a 4 finger creamy beige head that eventually does some lacing. Aroma is really brown malt - slightly bready - with something like noble hop. This could be bock meets double. But without Belgian yeast? Near full bodied. It’s quite slick. Totally missing the Belgian thing. It’s very nutty, somewhat chocolate in a mild way, and very brown bready. Smooooth! Not all that sweet, tho the malt is the main thing. It makes the rear edges of my tongue ache. It’s delicious.
Tried
on 14 Jan 2013
at 19:16