Apple Spice
Jacob Leinenkugel Brewing Company in Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin, United States 🇺🇸
Fruit Beer Regular Out of Production|
Score
5.85
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We use over 2000 pounds of apples in every brew.
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Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 4.5
Bottle. Candied apple and malt aroma. Pale yellow color with small head. Sweet cinnamon and apple malt flavor. Tastes like spiced cider so delivers what it claims.
Appearance - 2 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7.5 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 8.5
Very nice muted hard sour candy aroma, just like granny smith apple pie. Looks like ubiquitous pale yellow american lager but with a thin creamy girdle head. Lovely initial flavor, very slight beer bitterness but plenty of apple tartness. After each sip I get this odd aftertaste of Kellogs applejacks. Could do without the cinnamon, IMHO it distracts from the quakity. There is a small amount of processed lager beer bitterness in there, however it is well controlled. This beer is more like a sour ale than a fruit beer. If this is a fruit beer, it is one of the better I’ve tastd.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 3 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 2.5
Quite a bit of fresh pressed apple juice and apple pie spice, some obvious cinnamon but then a bit of fake "apple candle" aroma as well. Straight golden color with a webby head. Light palate with a candyish sweetness and only a touch of tartness to help cut it. Lingering but light spice. Sweetish finish. A touch watery. A real let down from a brewery I like.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5
Clear light straw body, thick off-white head. Aroma of a tart apple jolly rancher, suggesting beer is not the priority here. Strong apple flavor, with definite cinnamon notes on the finish, but preserving a solid natural fruit palate. And, what credit does a beer deserve for making ample use of fresh apples but little use of hops and malt? Tough questions for tough times.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 2 | Texture - 2 | Overall - 2.5
Pour is golden and aroma is great. Fills the room with a nice warming apple. That’s about where this ones goes down hill. Flavor is sticky and way to sweet, Its just a frigging mess. Very artificial apple flavor is about all you can detect. Craptastic!
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5
Clear golden color with a medium thin and fizzy white head. Thin, spotty lacing. Great apple archard smell really goes with the season. Dry, crisp body with a cinnamon applesauce flavor that unfortunately does not live up to the smell. Tastes pretty much like an apple soda. The finish is dry, short and apple-y. If this were a candle I’d burn it, but I won’t drink it again for awhile.
Appearance - 2 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 8
I am very impressed with this beer. It has an outstanding aroma. It smells very much like apple cider and cinnamon. Nothing interesting about the appearance; just a little bit cloudy with no head. Very good flavor. Ripe apples, cinnamon, pumpkin, and other spices, and wheat in the finish. By far the most interesting and daring of anything made by Leinenkugels. My girlfriend likes it, her friend who doesn’t like beer likes it. Well done.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Bottled, rated along with a Unibroue Éphémère for the sake of science. Okay, the Leinies is apple & cinammon, the Éphémère is apple, coriander, curacao... not a fair competition, but we may be surprised. Leinie’s has a nice, light apple cider smell, a little yeasty, not too sour. Surprise, Éphémère also has a screw-top! Smells more like fresh apple juice. Leinie’s pours a pale beer body, slightly tinged with apple juice, with a thicker head than most Miller beers. The Éphi is darker, more like apple juice, with a thicker head. Taste is, well, rather nice. Quite tart, perhaps a Rome apple. Cinnamon puts it somewhere between mulled cider and apple pie. The Éphémère is much more delicate. Also, malts are very pale, but much more noticable. Neither has much of a hop taste to it. Both are a tad gassy. I’d say yes, the Leinie’s is a little overbearing, like a macro fruit beer, there’s more fruit than beer taste to it. But there are so few macro apple beers, it ends up scoring points for putting something different on the market. It’s also pretty successful as an autumn beer, for after a Thanksgiving dinner. The Éphémère is a geat summer beer with a delicacy that rates it higher, but I gotta say the Leinie’s is pretty strong and hearty.