jhaase (14816) reviewed Volksfestbier from Biermanufaktur Engel 21 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6
nutty roasted and fruity malt aroma. Dark orange, not much visible carbonation, low lacing creamy head. Fat malty base, caramel and fruit, bitter finish. Sparkling mouthfeel, sticky malt aftertaste.
jhaase (14816) reviewed Kellerbier from Biermanufaktur Engel 21 years ago
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 5.5
Banana in the nose, almost to the degree that I would have guessed it to be a Weizen. Hazy pale golden, big creamy head. Sweet, rather flat estery and spicy tastenotes, some herbs. Harsch peppery yeast finish. Its really not very much Kellerbier, has more the character of a (quite boring) ale.
jhaase (14816) reviewed Europameister-Bier from Biermanufaktur Engel 21 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5
Malty, honeyish and wooden aroma. Golden chestnut, big bubbles, nice creamy head. Malty with a roasted wooden note, citrus, nuts, a tad dust, toasted finish and afterplay. Medium to light body, sparkly mouthfeel - quite refreshing. I fully agree with Joris - really not a bad one-off.
jhaase (14816) reviewed Gold from Biermanufaktur Engel 21 years ago
Appearance - 4 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6
Fat marcipan nose. Golden, no visible carbonation, low lacing blanket head. Grainy malt a hint of wild flowers peeks through, a bit dusty.Grain when exhaling - a quick bitterhop stab at the end. Solid body and a well-lagered sparkling mouthfeel.
Ungstrup (52110) reviewed Dunkel from Biermanufaktur Engel 21 years ago
Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
An amber beer with a fine white head. The aroma is very sligth - what is there is malty sweet. The flavor is sweet malty with notes of roasted bread and a hop dry end.
Sloefmans (15389) reviewed Volksfestbier from Biermanufaktur Engel 21 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Orange, faint haze; fine orange tinted white head. Cocos, caramel, and a fresh garden aroma (vegetable patch after a shower?). Peppery, spicey tinge on top of a rather flat sweet base - bit of cookie, bit of caramel. But flat; finish has some bittery notes, but not quite exitingly so. The label reads: ingredients : water, malt, hops (where’s the yeast??). Now this is the usual descending ratio in a ny beer. But in this beer it is more than usual ratio for the first. Can’t they use a decent kick of hops, dammit?
Sloefmans (15389) reviewed Dunkel from Biermanufaktur Engel 21 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Clear brown-amber, greenish shine; slim, diffuse off-white head. Caramel & a bit gassy - gRassy too. eeehh! Surprise, surprise. Couldn’t be more different from the other Engel Dunkels as possible. Blind, I’d say a very good keg British B.B. Quite delicate-hoppy, again a bit grassy. Rather light bodied. It is a bit watery, but the aftertaste yields more bitterness. As said, not at all German in character, and not any the worse for it.
Sloefmans (15389) reviewed Kellerbier Dunkel from Biermanufaktur Engel 21 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6
Red-brown, clear; slim light-brown head. Remarkable nose! Freshly ground coffee; going over into more classical bread and a touch of nuts. Again coffee in the taste - though watery one. Touch sweet, not much. Slight caramel, but it fades away, just like all the rest. Medium bodied at best. Slight adstringency. It promessed much - much more than the dreary Hell. Then it went the same way. Beuh.
Sloefmans (15389) reviewed Kellerbier from Biermanufaktur Engel 21 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5
Peach to pale gold, only end hazy; yellow-white good head, faintly irregular. Vanilla, pale malt and a hint of hops in the nose. Sweet beer, very malty taste. All in all, a bit dull. Rather dry, not riming with the sweet initial taste (opposite effect of tripel-style). Medium bodied only. End of bottle slightly creamier, bit fruitier too. Bof... Not bad - rather boring. Not what I’d expect from kellerbier - more a "Helles mit etwas Hefen", rather than "ungespundetes Zwickelbier".
Sloefmans (15389) reviewed Europameister-Bier from Biermanufaktur Engel 21 years ago
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Slightly hazy, greenish-amber; off-white head, quite carbonated. Very caramel-y and just a touch grassy nose. Caramel taste, less pronounced than the nose; some bitterness, walnutty in character, leafy. Even a bit of adstringency. Despite its character, nice and refreshing. Quite light MF, however, a bit at odds with the taste. I seem to get some madeirisation, BBD is not indicated clearly. I must confess to like it - and that’s a rarity for this popular one-offs, usually a poor excuse for some quick money.