Bergquell Brauerei Löbau

Regional Brewery in Löbau, Saxony, Germany 🇩🇪

Established in 1846

Contact
Weststraße 7, Löbau, 02708, Germany
Description
Although Bergquell beer has been brewed since 1846, the company has been a purely regional brewery for a long time. For the 150th anniversary - 1996 - the new building in the industrial area Löbau-West was inaugurated. In 1999, the annual output was 7,000 hectoliters of beer. But within a few years, the company developed into one of the most modern breweries in Europe with a current annual production of around 200,000 hectoliters and a nation-wide reputation in Germany.

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5.6
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5

Bottle: Dark amber coloured, thin off white head; fruity (raisins) nose, some traces of alcohol and roasted malts; starts sweet and fruity, sweetish flavour, leading to a longer bitter-sweet aftertaste; all in all quaffable, but lacks complexity.

Tried from Bottle on 14 Jun 2005 at 00:47


3.1
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 3 | Texture - 2 | Overall - 2.5

(bottle) Dark reddish brown colour with a short frothy and diminishing off-white head. Sweetish and sugary malty aroma and flavour. It tastes like a German Malzbier with alcohol. I dont like it.

Tried from Bottle on 20 Mar 2005 at 16:14


3.9
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 3.5

(Bottle 50 cl) 95% porter and 5% cherry syrup which must contain some very strong aromas, as this beer tastes excessively from cherries. Almost mahogany in colour with a defined reddish tint. Apparently you can have this warm as well, I had mine straight from the fridge though. Light bitterness from the porter, but the sticky, sickening sweet cherry-flavour dominates all over. Tough one to drink. And who the f... dragged the above commercial description through Babel Fish?? "The sagenhaft sueffige taste of "Lausitzer Porter", supplemented by the aromatically winter Punschnote, Porter+Punsch makes the ideal winter drunkenness." That sounds like something out of the Nurenberg trials - or Monty Python... 060205

Tried from Bottle on 18 Mar 2005 at 09:25


6.8
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

[At Jyske Øldage 2004, Kolding] A red-brown beer with a disappearing head. The aroma is sweet with notes of caramel. The flavor is very sweet with notes of caramel and licorice - much like a Danish hvidtøl. A nice beer, but light for a porter.

Tried on 08 Jan 2005 at 17:10


4.9
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 4.5

Sampled draught at Berliner Bierfest 2003. Very dark brown, clear. Clean and lightly roasty. Rather fizzy. Some salt in the finish, otherwise very neutral.

Tried on 08 Dec 2004 at 14:22


5.8
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6

Bottle.Very brown colour, no head. Quite sweet, slightly roasted flavour....

Tried from Bottle on 26 Oct 2004 at 19:35


4.8
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 5

The aroma sour hoppyness. The color is brown and it has a fast disappearing head. The flavor is sweet malty with strong notes of caramel. The body is thin especially taking the 7.5% ABV into account.

Tried on 13 Sep 2004 at 00:57


6
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 5

Broken white head, reduced in secs to white rim; dark, chestnut-brown beer. Lactic nose, sweet milk, faint nutty, very aromatic. Sweet, much like sweet worts, with both a tinge of acidity and bitterness. This last builds up a bit, but "Traubenzucker"-sweetness keeps firmly on top. Bready, woody palate, hint at bitter-adstringency that sits extemely uneasy on the main sweet components. Bit fizzy mouthfeel, soft-drink like. Given this blind, I would never think 4.4% ABV; but guess a German Malztrunk - alcoholfree wortsbeverage. The sweetness is too omnipresent, and makes in difficultly drinkable.

Tried on 10 Apr 2004 at 08:17


3.4
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 1 | Flavor - 4 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 3.5

Dark amber color. Sweet, rotten aroma. Sweet, plastic note; just some caramel and a slightly metallic finish. Drinkable because of the sweetness, but a big mistake!

Tried on 24 Jan 2004 at 07:58


4.3
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 4 | Overall - 4

Sampled draught Berliner Bier-Festival.
Dark mahogany colour, no head. Vey sweet and honeyish. A tad roasty but the honey dominates. Soft, rounded mouthfeel and clean, sugary finish. A weak variety of Baltic, most likely bottom fermented porter.

Tried on 05 Aug 2003 at 13:50