Advent Special - Munich Wine
Moersleutel Craft Brewery in Alkmaar, Noord-Holland, Netherlands 🇳🇱
Barley Wine - Barley Special Out of Production|
Score
7.03
|
|
This beer is made with 100% munich-style malts. What is Munich Malt? Unlike other aromatic malts—such as caramel, chocolate, and roasted—Munich malts are kilned gently at perhaps 60°C to 70°C until the moisture content has dropped to 10% to 20% to preserve much of their starch-reducing diastatic enzymes. Any remaining moisture is then quickly driven off during a quick final curing at approximately 110°C. This initiates the melanoidin-producing Maillard reaction. Melanoidins give beer malty-sweet aromas and deep color. Nutty, toasty, deep. The retention of enzymatic power is important, because this allows Munich malt to be used as a base malt, where it can lend deep malt flavors to beers. We used Munich Malts from 5 different maltsters. The beer is triple mashed.
Sign up to add a tick or review
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
4/I/25 - 44cl can @ ElManana+1’s place, BB: 19/IX/27, canned: 19/IX/24, batch #813 (2025-20) Thanks to ElManana+1 for sharing the can!
Clear dark brown to black beer, creamy dense beige, stable, bit adhesive. Aroma: nice, lots and lots of caramel, cookie dough. MF: soft carbon, full body. Taste: bitter start, pretty roasted, caramel, hoppy, coffee, some alcohol, malty. Aftertaste: bitter, roasted, lots of alcohol, grains, sweet caramel, sugary, hoppy, more alcohol, bitter, ok, not great, was hoping for a nice barley wine.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
Can shared by my bro from the advent calendar. It pours clear darkest brown with a medium fluffy beige head. The aroma is toasty, earthy roast, malt loaf, some umami, brown bread, dried fruits, raisin, sultana, prune, date, fruit cake and fug roll. The taste is dry, earthy, woody, leather, bitter - sweet character, hearty malts, warming booze, tannin, some spice, malt loaf, brown bread, dried fruits, raisin, sultana, date, fig, toasted fruit cake, charred oak, spice, burnt toast and some herbal accents in the back end. Finish is super dry and toasty char. Fulsome body and average carbonation. A rich malt beast. A fun sipper, but quite heavy duty.