Veldensteiner Landbier

Bottle. Huge head with good duration. Color is brown. Aroma and taste are caramel, malt, bread, nuts and hops.

Bottle @ Home. Pours deep brown with a fluffy offwhite head. Aroma of malt, caramel, bread, nuts, sweet oranges. Taste is malt, bread, caramel, light sweet fruit, some floral hops. Medium body, low carbonation. 260611

500 ml swing top bottle purchased at Palmers Beverage Center in Columbus, Ohio. Mindestens haltbar bis: L2498054. Pour is a dark copper brown wit a frothy two inch tan head. A bit hazy. Aroma is toasty hazelnut malt, and an interesting spiced earthy yeastiness. Interesting and engaging nose. Taste is the hazenut toasted malt, lightly sweet and grassy. The yeast is present as well, nicely integrated with the toastiness up front. The aftertaste is a mineral gypsum, then the cracker malt. Palate is medium bodied, unfiltered mouth fell, fine natural carbonation and the dry clean mineral finish. Very drinkable beer, nice.

Bottle. dark reddish amber with an off-white head. Aroma is sweet soft fruit. Flavour starts with sweet notes with caramel and some bready hops, but has a pleasant roasted malt finish.

Finom kis serecske. Kicsit ugyanaz "minthakövetnyaldosnék" ízvilág érződik benne mint a Leikeim Steinbier-ben, de nem annyira tolakodóan. épp elviselhető, és még így kicsit különleges is. na látják, nem kell semmit túlzásba vinni.

Swingtop from Half Time. Pours ruddy amber with a foamy 3 finger beige head. Light roasted caramel flavor. Slightly brown sugar. Medium body; foamy carbonation. Not much bitter, but it is detectable as the sugar drains away. It’s not overly sweet either, just more malty than bitter. Very drinkable.

Clear dark amber with a large beige head. Aroma had rye bread, roasted malt, caramel and hints of smoke. The flavour was sweet and had notes of roasted malt, caramel, smoke and grassy hops. The hops gave the otherwise sweet beer a nice balance.

swing top bottle (500ml). -Bought on gas station somewhere in Germany (Frankfurt I guess). Red/amber coloured, medium sized off-white head, malty bready nose. Sweet malty, roasted bready and sugary with notes of caramel and herbs. Dry nutty finish. Rather average beer.

0.5l bottle, like in the picture, courtesy of ogivlado who shared it with me. Poured a clear darker brown/red body with a thick woff white head that settled down quite slowly. Whee a dark landbier, how cute. Sweet, slightly woody malty nose with notes of cocoaa, kinda nice actually. The taste doesn’t live up to the nose though. A light acidic hopiness that goes into bitterness goes in front of a grainy maltiness, relatively nutty, with notes of chocolate turning into dog food somewhere along the way, which doesn’t help the beer much. A bit on the light site, but I didn’t mind it as much as ogi did. Aah, ok, a fine nutty dunkel? ruined slightly by something that someone other might not perceive as a flaw.

Location: 500 ml swing-top bottle from Whole Foods - Bowery, 10/23/09

Aroma: The nose is a lot of sweet malts and bread, some roasted characteristics, some caramel
Appearance: Pours a clear dark reddish-brown color with a thick off-white head and quite a bit of lace
Flavor: A nice grainy malt flavor, pretty bready, a bit toasty, a bit nutty, with some pretty subdued herbal hops
Palate: Medium body, slightly watery, but not to the detriment of the beer
Overall Impression: This Landbeir is my first Zwickel/Keller/Landbier rating! It's always exciting to see that one of the few styles I am yet to rate is no longer empty. And now, on to the beer...
This one is pretty nice. It's a fairly flavorful beer. It has some good characteristics, and a nice malty flavor. I like it. I'm not sure whether it is a good representation of the style or not, but what I do know is that it is a pretty darn good beer.