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2020 vintage. Lovely.

7.4

Appearance - 7 | Aroma - 7.5 | Flavor - 7.5 | Texture - 7 | Overall - 7.5

Bottle from Brecht at home. Hazy brown with a light tan head. Aroma of caramel, malt, herbal notes, yeast, banana and light chocolate. Flavour is above moderate sweet and moderate bitter. Medium bodied with soft carbonation.

7.8

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8

500ml bottle. Slightly cloudy, copper-ish, chestnut colour with huge, thick, creamy, moderately to mostly lasting, moderately lacing, off-white head. Sweet-ish, wheaty, minimally nutty and toasty, malty and yeasty spicy as well as yeasty fruity aroma, notes of baked banana, clove, nutmeg, cinnamon, dark honey, a touch of hazelnut. Taste is sweet-ish, wheaty, minimally toasty and nutty malty, slightly yeasty fruity and yeasty spicy, notes of baked banana, hints of dark honey, hazelnut, some clove, cinnamon, a touch of nutmeg. Creamy-watery texture, slightly cloying palate, medium, prickly to lively carbonation. Well balanced, rich, manifold, integrated, maybe minimally overcarbonated - very good.

7.9

Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

0.5 l bottle from 'Homberg's große Bierwelt', 2021 vintage at 7% abv, best before July 2021. Hazy, dark ruby with a large, quite dense, stable, beige head. Sweetish-malty, quite yeasty-spicy and slightly fruity aroma of caramel, overripe banana, clove, raisins and light marzipan. Quite sweet, malty, rather yeasty-spicy and a bit fruity taste of caramel, toasted nuts, light chocolate, raisins, plums, overripe banana and clove, followed by a medium long, gently bitter, minimally roasty, quite yeasty-spicy finish. Medium to full body, smooth and gently effervescent mouthfeel, average carbonation. Moreish, saturating Dunkelweizenbock. Maybe not as great as their legendary pale Weizenbock but among the best dark ones I've tried so far.

6.9

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

Bottle ordered from A Hoppy Place, Windsor. Aroma of caramelized banana and cloves. Opaque dark brown. Thick foamy white head. Medium sour citrusness abetted by a clove tang. Underlying sweet banana puree and nougat. Medium bodied. Creamy. Average carbonation. Long slightly astringent finish. Easy drinking if unexciting.

7

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6

Bottle 0.5l at home, Nivala. Thanks rauchbierlover! Color is slightly cloudy brown with small white head. Aromas and flavors: Bread, grain, wheat and malts. Simple but clean.

5.6

Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 2 | Overall - 5.5

Dunkler Weizenbock, mit 17 % Stammwürze und 7,2 % Alk. Viel cremiger Schaum, schöne dunkle Farbe, enorme Menge Hefe die durchs Glas wabert. Vergleichsweise viel, extrem feinperlige Kohlensäure. Trotzdem noch recht süffig. Malzige und hefige Noten fallen auf, auch etwas Frucht (insbesondere Traube). Alles bestimmend ist allerdings eine sehr stark alkoholige Note. Die bittere Alkoholnote, zusammen mit der Kohlensäure überdeckt ziemlich alles, was man noch rausschmecken könnte. Kann so nicht mit dem Weltklasse hellen und dunklen Weizen aus gleichem Haus mithalten - vom Weißbierspezialisten Gutmann erwartet man einfach mehr. Diese hohe Erwartungen werden allerdings vom hellen Gutmann Weizenbock zu 100 % erfüllt. Der dunkle Bock kommt da leider nicht mal ansatzweise ran.

6.5

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6

Gutmann Dunkler Weizenbock, Flasche von GeFeKo, Berlin. - Tiefdunkles Rotbraun, hefetrüb, sahniger Schaum. - In der Nase tiefgründige, schwere Aromen von Banane und Bitterschokolade in fettem dunklen Weizenmalz mit eleganter herbaler Herbe. - Antrunk weich weizenmalzig mit leicht unreif-herber Banane, Rhabarber, Orangenschale, Kakao, Gewürznelke und Kräuterlikör. Mäßig süß; feine Noten. Weich im Mund. Im Abgang arg milde aber elegante, kühl zitrusfruchtige Herbe mit mediterranen Kräutern, Gewürzen und Bitterorange. - Eigentlich ein schöner, eleganter Weizenbock, nur irgendwie springt der Funke nicht über. (18.5.2020.)

7.9

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

500 ml bottle, 6.9% abv. Pours cloudy allmost hazy chocolate brown with a big fluffy head. Caramel, citrus, overripe banana, chocolate, bitter almond, yeasty estery notes. Malty sweetness, dry bitterness. Full bodied, oily texture, soft to lively carbonated, dry finish. A very nice complex and drinkable Dunkler Weizenbock! Surprisingly smooth.

7.4

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5

Thanks to Erzengel for that one! Bottle looks simple but good. Beer in the glass brownish, nice small head. Starts fine malty-roasty, modest roasty. Light sweetish notes, also some hints of caramel. Well balanced finish. Quite drinkable. Nice!