Käte (Red Wine BA)

Bottle, last Hurrah. Darkest brown, low creamy brown head. Fruity, Aventinus-like, funk and Sachertorte nose. Medium full body, low carbonation. Chocolate cake, cherry, tobacco, Brett, smoke, Wood vanilla dark chocolate finish. Sublime, you will be missed Flügge!

0.33 l bottle from 'AleHub', bottled in March 2022. Pitch black with a medium large, frothy, slowly diminishing, beige head. Sweetish-malty, quite roasty, gently vinous-fruity and slightly funky aroma of dark chocolate, coffee, red wine, oak, toasted hazelnut, leather and mould. Quite sweet, malty, fairly roasty, gently vinous-fruity and a bit funky taste of dark chocolate, coffee, licorice, toasted hazelnut, red wine, oak and some brett funk, followed by a medium long, quite roasty-bitter, gently woody-dry finish. Medium to full body, very smooth, slightly creamy and minimally astringent mouthfeel, soft carbonation. Lovely Stout, fairly complex, fortunately not too dry but rather smooth and creamy. Like it a lot more than the first batch of Käte, probably benefits a lot from barrel-aging but it seems that the brett flavours are better integrated as well.