Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Unusual 0,33 l bottle from kappldav123. Thanks a lot! Murky dark copper in the glass, no head. Intensive plum fruity smell. Taste is also fruity, some caramel in the second row with present hop. No carbonation. Barrelwood to the end with increasing alcoholic bitterness. Very round and smooth one.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
cleanly made beer. basically the definition of the style, light-medium body, but full complexity on the flavour. dresden cbs
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Many thanks to Erzengel for sharing! A hazy amber beer with a small off-white head. Aroma of caramel, wood, toffee and riped fruits. Taste of sweet and strong caramelized malt, toffee, wood, riped fruits, resinous bitter hops, long bitter finish with lot of toffee
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Many thanks to kappldav123 for this bottle! Plum-spirit in the nose, the beer starts fruity with booze in the back. Very interesting, lots of plum-spirit over a fruity floral IPA. Floral hops there, lots of fruity hints from the spirit, very interesting combination.
mike_77 (15875) reviewed Stout from Brauerei und Gasthof Zwönitz 7 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Black with quick fading head. It's a sweet stout with chocolatey notes. Finish is bittersweet.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Small 33cl bottle in strange format from the brewery. Looks good. Unusual but interesting to barrel age an Imperial IPA. Beer in the glass copper coloured, very small head. Wheaty alcoholic aroma with notes of some dried fruits. Starts strong, but not as alcoholic as exspected, also some woody notes. Sweetish-fruity notes of apricot, also some hints of nuts. But almost no typical IPA notes left. Finish warming alcoholic, still some notes of dried fruits. Not much of an IPA left, but an interesting experience.
Mansquito (19100) reviewed Rauchbier from Brauerei und Gasthof Zwönitz 7 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Advent Calendar: pours solid brown with a tan head. Aroma is somewhat smokey and rather malty. It does not have the veritable sausage smell of Aecht Schenkerla (the marzen I sampled again yesterday again... yum good times). Solid malty and smoky taste. Low bitterness. It is not bad.
jgb9348 (11828) reviewed Rauchbier from Brauerei und Gasthof Zwönitz 7 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 6
Crisp and deep brown coloured body with a muddied glow of pure brown and a rich, super frothy, four to five centimetre tall rich brown head on top. Aroma of pure malt, nuts, earth and a touch of peat and bitterness from the alcohol. Light to Medium-bodied; Strong grainy and malty flavours at first with a big nutty and peaty astringency with a subdued alcohol and peppery kick towards the end, all with a nice dry finish. Aftertaste shows the nutty and very peaty flavours far more than anything else, but a light sweetness from some fruits, a touch of caramelised sugars and a little subdued yeastie flavour shows through, but this is sort of all-over-the-map, and also definitely not even close to what a true rauch should be like - there is nothing smoked here aside from the faintest bit of peat. Overall, not such a great beer - definitely passable had it not been included in the Advent Calendar! I sampled this 500 mL can as Day Nine [of twenty-four] of the 2018 Christmas Advent Calendar, purchased from Costco in Arlington (Pentagon City), Virginia on 30-September-2018 for US$59,99/twenty-four, sampled at my house here in Washington on 09-December-2018.
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 10 | Overall - 8.5
500 ml can from the Advent calendar. Aroma is smoked meats, campfire, caramel, dark bread. Pours hazy amber-brown with a thick beige head with excellent retention and lace. Taste starts out moderately sweet and smoky before finishing with a moderate lingering herbal bitterness and a faint acidity. Excellent rauchbier.
Clarkvv (16523) reviewed Rauchbier from Brauerei und Gasthof Zwönitz 7 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Can, best before May 2020, clearly labeled as brewed at H. Egerer - I guess that's just where the cans are brewed?
Dark maple with more drab, almost olivine-tinted hues throughout. Clear with a beige head atop that recedes steadily to a ring.
An interesting rauchbier; it smells neither meaty (bacon, salt, ham) nor terribly campfire/woodsmoke-like. More in the heavy black pepper range with ash and very minor char but yet not iodine or peat-like either. Pretty straightforward rauch malt in a more bock-like base with caramel, treacle, molasses and toffee behind it, malty, yet not sugary. I don't get any flaws here either, which is surprising because H. Egerer looks to be a terrible brewery.
In the mouth it's malty, sweet and full of caramel, molasses and maple notes with strong, peppery smokiness throughout. It doesn't seem underattenuated, though maybe given its 4.8% stature, it is. Yet the smoke and caramel character balance each other pretty well and there is some hop bitterness, though no flavor, on the finish. Carbonation is moderate, surprisingly engaging given that this is almost certainly filtered and force carbed. Nothing mind-blowing here, but it's a reasonable rauchbier.