7/10
Bottle online from Hop Burns & Black. Pours a slightly hazy golden colour with a medium sized throthy off white head. Aromas of grains, hay, doughy white bread, toffee and caramel. Taste is malty with more sweet grains, hay, bread, toffee and caramel, with some added peppery spice and just a light grassy hop on the finish. Medium to full body, fairly low carbonation and slightly oily mouthfeel. Very decent above average Marzen.
Tried
from Bottle
on 25 Dec 2023
at 19:24
7.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 8
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 6.5
Trüb bernsteinfarben mit weißer Schaumkrone. Malziger, fruchtiger Geruch. Geschmacklich malzig, fruchtig mit reifer Banane, Karamell und Anklängen an Pflaumen, relativ wenig Hefe. Hohe Süße mit leichter Bitterkeit, voller Körper mit spürbarer Kohlensäure.
Tried
on 23 Dec 2023
at 18:11
5.4/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 6
Overall 5.5
33cl Bottle @ Franken. Pours amber copper with a small White head. Medium bodied. Grains and toffee. Slight flabby all around. Dry finish.
Tried
from Bottle
on 23 Dec 2023
at 06:27
7.4/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 6.5
Klar bernsteinfarben mit weißer Schaumkrone. Malziger, brotiger Geruch. Geschmacklich malzig, brotig, leicht hopfig mit Honig. Mittlere Süße mit leichter Bitterkeit, mittlerer Körper mit spürbarer Kohlensäure.
Tried
on 22 Dec 2023
at 09:58
5.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 5
Flavor 5
Texture 8
Overall 5.5
Deep amber with a frothy, white head. Aroma is banana bread, caramel and trash bin. Taste is moderate sweet, lightly tart, full of fruity esters. Faintly acidic at the finish, which stays lightly sweet, but with a helping of spice. Full, chewy body with moderate carbonation. Odd, and unusual for the style, but has some off-notes. Not working for me.
Tried
on 19 Dec 2023
at 17:55
8/10
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Tried
from Bottle
on 17 Dec 2023
at 18:35
7.8/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 8
Flavor 7.5
Texture 8
Overall 7.5
Pours a clean mid to dark amber with a nice, quite fluffy white head; good retention and nice lacing. Quite good intensity in a nicely clean aroma: caramel malts with the slightest hint of nuttiness, average intense smoked notes (reminding mostly of speck/bacon). On the back, some floral hop notes and some kind of refreshing fruitiness where i can't pick anything specific. Taste shows relative intensity (relative per both style and franconian beers) in both sweetness and bitterness, with caramel malts and nuttiness and a not so timid floral hoppiness that also brings a semi-dry finish/aftertaste. Everything is overall well balanced, with average smoked malts intensity. Light to medium bodied, light to medium carbonation. Smooth and slightly silky, goes down super easy and feels somehow more refreshing than most rauchbiers. Very good.
Tried
from Bottle
on 12 Dec 2023
at 21:28
7.5/10
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Appearance 8
Aroma 7
Flavor 8
Texture 8
Overall 7
Reddish copper with a frothy, white head. Aroma of toast, caramel, spice. Taste is mildly caramel sweet up front, bread-like, drifting into a herbal bitterness and finishing with a peppery spice that rounds it out nicely. Medium-bodied, moderate carbonation. Pleasant.
Tried
on 08 Dec 2023
at 18:01
6.6/10
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Appearance 6
Aroma 7
Flavor 6.5
Texture 7
Overall 6.5
Pours a clear, slightly pale golden. Average sized white head, decent retention and lacing. Quite good intensity in a simple, clean aroma: slight crackery malts frangrance underneath a quite vivid grassy, slightly floral and citric (mostly lemonish) hoppiness. Taste notes more or less follow the aroma with more prominence on the flowery, quite dry hoppy component. Light in sweetness with low to medium bitterness, a balanced mouth and a slight bittering edge in a quite dry finish. Light to medium bodied with light to medium carbonation. Very clean and kind of minimalistic; does it's job at being a classic german pilsner but failed to catch me, maybe a bit too standard.
Tried
on 06 Dec 2023
at 20:10
8/10
This is the stuff
Tried
from Bottle
on 06 Dec 2023
at 17:06