Stiftsgartenbier
Graser in Bamberg, Bavaria, Germany 🇩🇪
Brewed at/by: Heller-Bräu TrumLager - Keller / Zwickel / Landbier Regular
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Score
7.42
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Brewed using a historical recipe from Bamberg's first documented brewery, "Brauerei Michaelsberg", for the "Bamberger Stiftsgarten" (a part of the same monastery that the Michaelsberg brewery originally belonged to). The brewery was active from around 1122 to 1969. This beer was brewed using hops from Spalt and the "Hopfengarten Bamberg", which has reintroduced hop cultivation in Bamberg. Schlenkerla used their official name "Hellerbräu" for this historical beer, since Konrad Graser who was a brewer at the Michaelsberg Brewery, later took over Hellerbräu (Schlenkerla) in 1866!
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7.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 6
Overall 8
Fläschla (Danke, Jonas!): Copper coloured, a bit unclear, creamy off-white head, moderate sweet-bitter malty nose with honeyish touch and traces of “fishy” smoke, mild but distinctive herbal hops underneath; robust sweet-bitter flavour, medium bodied; lingering and drier herbal and sweet-malty finish with some hops - sticking to the palate - in the aftertaste. Yes! Another well balanced and moreish franconian masterpiece…
Tried
on 20 May 2022
at 17:23
7.6/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Clear amber. Aroma is slight smoke black bread grainy stuff pleasant caramel. Taste is slight smoke again with quite sweet caramel malt base and a somewhat rustic earthy base. Something fresh as well. Traces of copper. Again that slight smoke in the finish. Taking it slow enough on the smoke so that I can enjoy it as well :D
Tried
from Can
on 03 May 2022
at 20:01
8.1/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8.5
Bottle. Slightly unclear amber color with slightly off-white head. Aroma is very mild smoke, some malt sweetness, bready, mild but beautiful hopspice, the Spalt hops really doing their work here, a bit fruitiness and berries too. Taste is rustic-earthy, bready, again mild smoke and a really well-integrated but properly noticeable hoppiness in there. Soft oily mouthfeel, natural carbonation. Wow, this is just what was missing in Schlenkerla's lineup, a bit of a more rustic beer, but with incredibly nice subtle hop character in there - very complex and balanced at the same time. Hats off, this is pretty amazing!
Tried
from Bottle
on 29 Apr 2022
at 21:12
8.2/10
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Appearance 10
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 8
Bottle. Deep amber, golden lacing foam. Bready honeyish malt with a hint farty smoke and flowery grassy hops. Medium full chewy body, light herb candy, honey bread - fat malt with crisp grainy notes, light salt, broad herbal and grassy counterpoint. Quite moreish.
Tried
from Bottle
on 23 Apr 2022
at 19:34