Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6.5
Willebecher cask at Green Room Burgers & Beer in Kansas City, Missouri. The pour is a slight haze golden copper with a minimal off white head. The aroma is big spice rye, sweet fruity, almost bubble gum malt sweetness. The taste is a big blast of rye, followed by toast malt and the fruit sweetness in the finish. The palate is medium bodied with a flat cask mouthfeel.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Sample at Parkville fest. This is their latest seasonal, we were told. Hazy pale yellow color, white head. Aroma of white pepper and straw. Taste is lightly bready and peppery. Nice easy drinking summer beer.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
~14 oz Willebecher cask at Green Room Burgers & Beer in Kansas City, Missouri. I was served the first pour off of the cask. The pour is a cloudy orange golden with a well formed 1/2 inch white head. The aroma is fresh citrus hop, bit of dry herbal, and general bitterness towards the back. The taste is bright bitter citrus, some of the citrus peel, herbal and balanced against toast caramel malt. The finish is clean and bitter. The palate is low cask carbonation with a mouth feel which is dry and the clean bitter end. Easy drinking, solid beer.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Willebecher draft at Green Room Burgers & Beer in Kansas City. The pour is a hazed golden copper with a nice one inch white head. The aroma is clove, wheat and general Belgian yeast. The taste is bright citrus, lemon, grass and the Saison yeast. Clean, with an earth soft mineral finish. The palate is light to medium bodied with active carbonation and the mineral finish. Solid Saison.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6.5
Cask Willi Becher at the brewpub in Kansas City, Missouri. The pour is a hazed brown with a one inch off white head. The aroma is nutty earthy brown along with fresh raspberry sweet fruit. The taste is a nice blend of the softly sweet caramel nut malt and raspberry fruit. The palate is light to medium bodied, soft cask carbonation and a clean fruit sweet finish. Nice one.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Willi Becher draft at the brewpub in Kansas City, Missouri. Right off the bat - that’s a generous pour of a 10.8% beer. The pour is a murky copper brown with a well formed 1 inch off white head. The aroma is citrus resin, floral notes, grass, a bit of a peanut shell and softly malt sweet. The taste is big upfront in the resin citrus, pine, floral, the grass and mineral of the nose, along with an almost smoky element that is sort of toasty. The palate is medium bodied with soft carbonation and the dry mineral slight alcohol finish. Managed the booze really well. These big booze hop bombs aren’t really my thing anymore, but this was a nice one.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
I had a couple of ~2 oz samples at the Boulevardia Taps & Tastes in Kansas City, Missouri. The pour is lightly hazed golden with a small white head. The aroma is corn, earthy dirt and a light herbal character. The taste is grain corn, the earth herbal, and finishes with more grain corn. The palate is medium bodied, light to almost no carbonation and a dry earth finish. Fun beer.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
This was available on draft, as well as on two different casks with differing dry hop treatments (Amarillo and Belma). The pour (into a frozen Shaker pint glass) is black with a small khaki head. The aroma is faint with a bit of roast and bright floral and citrus hop. The taste is the roasted malt, along with floral fruit citrus hops and a soft caramel sweetness. Flavors works pretty well together. The palate is medium bodied, unfiltered mouth feel and low cask carbonation and the sweet hoppy roast finish. Fun beer.