Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
RBSG growler Average sized head of off white over a medium brown body. Heavy caramel aroma. Good balance of malt and hop bitterness that finishes sweet. Creamy textured body is medium to full with a bit of oilyness to it. A very decent sipper.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 9
A deep red-brown beer with a disappearing brown head. The aroma is malty with strong notes of chocolate and alcohol, combined with lesser roated notes - nice. The flavor is lovely alcoholic - burning the mouth, but also notes of oranges and wood with a thick mouthfeel - leaning towards a portwine. Lovely.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 10 | Flavor - 9 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
Sample at the Mondiale 2005: Poured a weird orangey/brown color ale with a weird foamy head with limited retention. Aroma is solely constituted of pancake blueberry. I’m sure I can smell the flour and the fresh blueberry. Blueberry, white flour and butter also dominate taste. Some sourness in the aftertaste was a bit odd and difficult to explain but was still enjoyable. Overall, this is a very good blueberry beer.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 9.5
Thank you, thank you, thank you Wohlfs! The enormity of recieving this beer is overwhelming! The aroma is as good coming from this as any I’ve tried. I’m still smelling it in my mind the next day. Really heady stuff here! Deep dark brown color, with a diminished head expected of an Eisbock. Almost laces. Complex flavor is perfectly balanced between the raspberry and the maltiness of the Eisbock. The raspberry strikes me for it’s naturalness. So many fruit beers taste artificial and not at all like the fruit from which they supposedly come, not this one. Buttered toast with raspberry jam! The raspberry is not too tart, not too sweet, just perfect! No medicinal notes at all as high alcohol beers utilizing fruits can have. The overall sweetness of the brew is also near perfect, playing back and forth between the malt and the fruit as it works towards an incredibly long and satisfying finish. Not cloying, not sour, just perfect! The alcohol content is completely masked in this. This easily jumps into my top ten list as one of those beers that make you say WOW! You only taste beers like this every once in a long while and it makes tasting all of those regular beers in between worth it when you get one like this! Thanks again Steve!
Silphium (4308) reviewed Devils Horn from Kuhnhenn Brewing Company 20 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
April 2004 vintage. Hazy orange-brown body, big light tan head. Strong, sweet and sour raspberry aroma, quite tart, with toasty malts. Very sour at the front of the sip, with raspberry syrup dominating the flavor, cut by the tartness and toasty, bitter finish. Nice, a raspberry beer that breaks the tired mold. This doesn’t compare to New Glarus Raspberry Tart, the latter beer displaying a touch more tartness and a thinner, smoother body. Devil’s Horn is a bit heavy and syrupy for a sour beer, but it’s still enjoyable. The balance here is still on the raspberry syrup instead of the sour yeast strain, and I prefer the reverse relationship if possible.
Ungstrup (52110) reviewed Belgian Strong from Kuhnhenn Brewing Company 20 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
[Hand bottle from growler by Clark VV on March 25th, leaked on the way to Jacob Lövenlund, sampled April 7th] An orange beer with no head. The aroma is very hoppy, but also with hints of alcohol. The flavor is slightly sour and very hoppy, and also contains alcohol, that gives the warmth and also prickles the tongue. I’d love to try this fresh. Thanks Clark for shipping this to Jacob.
Ungstrup (52110) reviewed Simcoe Silly from Kuhnhenn Brewing Company 20 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Bottled. An unclear amber beer with a lazing beige head. The aroma has strong notes of brettanomyces combined with medium notes of caramel - is this supposed to be so? The flavor is sweet and acidic with notes of brettanomyces and fruit, leading to a dry, tart, and brett’y finish.
[Hand bottle from growler by Clark VV on March 25th, leaked on the way to Jacob Lövenlund, sampled April 7th] A hazy orange beer with no head, but it gave a small pfizt when we opened it - so it wasn’t all dead. The aroma is sweet hoppy with hints of alcohol. The flavor contains notes of grass, prunes, and spices where especially ginger stands out - it is a little too spicy for me. Has it turned bad on the journey? [7/2/5/4/12=3.0]
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Deep red body, thin off-white head. Rich, sweet chocolate (or Hershey’s) syrup aroma. Fruity, surprisingly tangy body with chocolate, a touch of cherry, and roasted malts. Quite tangy and a touch sour but no off-flavors that suggest infection. Other than that peculiarity, the beer is quite thin and light on flavor.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 9 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Huge thanks to Bret (Kuhnhenn) for opening a bottle of this for everyone to sample. Only a couple bottles of this are now left after Saturday. Bottle. 3/19/05. Brewed using forbidden fruit, it dosent have a real Belgian aroma, what it does have, is a fantastic, authentic Michigan sour cherry aroma. No truckloads of sugar were used in the making of this beer. Sparkling amber/rosy-peach tinged body, with a fizzy white head that quickly recedes to bubbles. Tart and dry aroma is even more pronounced in the tart and dry, yet real cherry flavor. A bit of yeast interaction with the sour cherries, very light malting and a crisp, tart finish with a nip of alcohol and spice. I wish I had a lot more of this stuff. Medium body, highly attenuated, moderate carbonation that quickly dies off as it breathes.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 5
On draught, 3/19/05 at the brewery. Lovely light-pink/opal body, full white head, good retention. Aroma smells of sugary fruit syrups, touch of dry yeast and a bit of spiciness (faint). Flavor is heavily sweet with residual sugar/fruit syrup-like sugars dominating. A bit of acid and tartness, but it’s fully drowned out by the finish. Fatiguing and cloying, it’s too much for my delicate palate! Medium body, though to its credit and you hate to bash beers like this, because they are brewed for a reason and the brewers do a great job with what they are aiming for. No wateriness or alcohol. Still, I think the ladies don’t need this much sugar. . .