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Not in the book but hey I have not done a blog update for some months

Appearance:

 

Cloudy chestnut with a small off white head that kinda stays in the glass

Aroma:

Roasted malt with chocolate and a fig sweetness with a background of flowery hopiness

Taste:

Vinous fruits with a large mount of sweetness and carbonation, hint of flowery hops in the background and more sweatness. The finish is sweetness with some chocolate, coca powder but sweatness with a hint of coffee. 

 

 

Overall:

 

Big mouth strikes again, this beer is so sweet, sweater than and oud bruin or a melk stout. I have another bottle but I will give it away!! 

5.0/10

Ayinger Celebrator

Finally a new beer a German double bock. Beers are getting harder to track down now.

Appearance:

 

Rich ruby red with a midsize off white head that stays in the glass

Aroma:

Roasted malt with coffee and a fig sweetness with a hint of hopiness

Taste:

 

Vinous fruits with a touch of malt and big spicy hops. The finish is long with the coffee and figs of the aroma and the vinous fruits being balanced by a good chunk of dry bitter hops

 

Overall:

 

A well balanced beer more bitter than my usual dutch style bocks very easy drinking and perfect carbonation. A nice autumn beer but not something I would hunt out

7.5/10

Rogue Double Chocolate Stout

Today's offering is a substation as I could not get any of the stouts listed in the book so this one will have to do

 

 

 

 

 

Appearance:

Black with the darkest head I have seen which is long and stays

Aroma:

Chocolate chocolate with a small hint malt

Taste:

Bitter hit of high quality chocolate, followed by a little aciditiy of the carbonation and then a touch of roast malt comes through and then a hint of warmth from the alcohol. The finish is long dry and bitter chocolate.


Overall:

This beer does what it says on the tin and despite my thinking it would be sweet it is not, may be a touch of carbonated but a quality product. This said I would buy it again, it is very expensive and still leaves me wanting a beer..........

7.5/10

Carnegie Stark Porter

Today's offering is a Swedish Porter and is the 5.5% offering

 

 

 

 

 

Appearance:

Dark dark chestnut brown almost black with small off-white head that really lasts

Aroma:

Roasted grain mixed with milky coffee and a hint of spicy hops.

Taste:

The dark roast grain comes across first followed by a cake like sweetness balanced by spicy hops. The finish is slightly smokey liquorice and slight vinous fruitness


Overall:

Odd this beer misses a middle in the taste nice start, nice finish but thin in the middle.

6.0/10

Bierra Morettti La Rossa

Today's offering one brought back for me from a friends holidays and better still a beer I had never heard of before

 

 

 

 

 

Appearance:

Dark red chestnut  with very slightly white head that really lasts

Aroma:

Sweet Roasted malt at first that is replaced by a very mild coffee

Taste:

The dark roast grain comes across first and as it fades sweetness follows, and finally some chemical bitterness at the very end of the finish


Overall:

Not one for me, not enough going on, surprisingly low alcohol kick given the 7.2% but I think this is due to the over carbonisation

5.0/10

Konig Ludwig Dunkel

Today's offering is a big two fingers to Munich Oktoberfest (Munich breweries did ban this brewer from the party as he is a little unorthodox; dry hopping and turns 80% of the malt sugar into alcohol). It almost impossible to find the dunkel in the Netherlands I had to cross the boarder for this one.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Appearance:

Mid chestnut  with very slightly off white head that really lasts

Aroma:

Roasted malt at first that is replaced by a very mild coffee a touch of figs and a spicy hop note.

Taste:

Dark roasted grain at first which get increasingly fig and vinously fruity as time goes on. The finish is long a slightly coffee like bitterness and slightly sour balanced by the vinous fruits


Overall:

Ok this beer is hard to get out side Germany as it is so good, I really like this beer it has sweetness, sourness and bitterness a classic beer that I wish was more available.

9.0/10

Kostitzer Schwarzbier

Today's offering is a Germany black larger

 

 

 

 

 

 

Appearance:

Very very dark chestnut almost black with slightly off white head that lasts

Aroma:

Smells grassy at first followed by some bitter plain chocolate which has a touch of roasted malt in the background and at the end the book says figs and I see what they mean but I would add earthy figs.

Taste:

A first a burnt grain but is chased out by malt loaf flavour which gets creamier as the taste goes on. The finish is bitter roasted grain with plain chocolate and a touch of spicy hops. Oddly enough the flavours are slightly muted I think it could do with being stronger by 1-2% abv.


Overall:

Close but lacks a really depth to the flavours to make it really nice beer for me, carbonation is excellent however.

7.0/10