0,33 l Steinie bottle with a new more old school label art. Clear copper in the glass, huge frothy pale beige head. Smells malty. Taste starts sweet malty, hints of cherry. Grain in the second row. Getting a little bit more dry malty with low bitterness to the end.

Sampled from 0.33 l bottle from 'EDEKA Preller' (Breckerfeld), best before April 2018. Clear, dark reddish amber with a medium large, frothy, almost stable, off-white head. Sweetish, slightly malty and a bit grassy aroma of caramel, nuts, some red fruits and a touch of straw. Moderately sweet, slightly bitter, moderately malty and slightly grassy-spicy taste of caramel, nuts, some straw and a touch of red fruits, followed by a short, moderately bitter, slightly grassy-spicy and a bit metallic finish. Medium body, smooth and slightly effervescent mouthfeel, soft carbonation. Okay!

Bottle. Copper coloured with a decent head. Aroma is malty and spicy with some hops. Taste is malty, spicy (a hint of cinnamon?), caramell and sweetish bitter. Strong carbonation. The best Herforder beer there is but that’s not really saying a lot....

* Old rating, 0,33l bottle, best before 05.2003. Ingredients: Water, barley malt, hop extract. Bernsteinfarbenes, süßlich-mildes Bier. Der höhere Alkoholgehalt schlägt sich in einer malzig-süßlichen Note wieder, dazu eine leicht muffige aber moderate Herbe.

Bottle from McTapps, many thanks Sabine. Deep golden color wiith medium off-white head. malty aroma. Malty taste with caramel, spices.

Bottle from a colleague at work. Clear deep orange colour lasting thick cream head. Some spicy malty aroma. Malty in mouth. Tasty toast on the finish. I thought good. Fresh. Tasty. Decent.

Bottle. Deep golden colour with an off-white head. Aroma is alcohol, caramel, malt, hop. Flavour is caramel, alcohol, malt, hop, grain. Medium body. Ordinary beer.

Bottle. It’s a clear, amber colored beer topped by a small, off-white head. Some alcohol in the aroma, with caramel maltyness and some grassy hints. Some malty sweetness in the flavor, with caramel, grass, a faint bitterness and some fruity hints. Medium to full body, with some alcohol warmth. Sweet, caramel finish with some notes of cooked vegetables. Well, nothing impressive going on here. 130516

Bottle 330ml @ Geokkjer
Pours clear dark brown with a off-white head. Aroma has notes of malt, caramel and floral hops. Taste is light to medium sweet and light bitter. Body is medium, texture is thin to oily, carbonation is soft.

German Christmas Market in Birmingham (West Midlands): 5th Dec 2012. Draught pint into a ’Lowenbrau (Munich) glass tankard. Looked good in the sunlight on a really cold, crisp afternoon: Deep amber/mahongany in colour, clear and clean: on top a thin off-white covering that turned into a small wisp and a collar fairly quickly. Pleasant malty aroma and taste: semi-sweet with hints of winter/Christmas spices, cinnamon? Nice surprise to see this at the huge 180+ stall annual event: most places just sold ’German Lager’ and didn’t even give the brewery name or ABV: I hate that, it is worse when the staff don’t know what beer it is either! Highlight of the tasting was the stall next door with its Hams being cooked on rotating spits and the talking/singing reindeer head above the next nearest beer hut.