The Kaiser's beer reviews

Like most other Bockbiers this one also shows a low head retention. The head was almost completely gone after 2-3 min. The aroma is the typical sweet munich malt aroma but lower than it is in most other Doppelbocks. The beer starts sweet and finishes malty. The bitterness is low and doesn't linger. The sweetness is rather strong and almost cloying. There is no hop taste present. The finish also shows some “darker” character. No roast but maybe more highly kilned munich or crystal malt.

A very slight sulphuric note is present in the aroma. It is faint, but I have not noticed that in other beers except the Oettinger Pils where it was much stronger though. The aroma is otherwise clean; no malt and no hops. A slightly sweet taste finishes with a hint of hops. The bitterness is low and lingers only slightly. The mouthfeel is above medium and there is no significant malt taste in this beer. I'd consider this one balanced towards the hops, but only because the malt taste is absent.

This is not the great beer I thought it was when I had it last 3 years at the German village in Disney's Epcot Center.

This one is a German Wheat not brewed in Bavaria. It is brewed in Frankfurt and because of that called Hefeweizen instead of Weissbier.

The aroma is slightly sweet and slightly phenolic. A sweet start is finished by some clove and a bitterness that lingers quite a bit for a Weissbier. The clove note was not as strong in the finish as the bitterness is. That bitterness is also reminiscent of (lemon) zest but w/o the fruit character. The mouthfeel is medium. The carbonation is also medium, which is low for a Weissbier.

Overall, that beer was first sweet and than bitter/spicy in the finish.

The aroma shows a very slight malt sweetness. In the taste this beer is slightly sweet with a low bitterness that lingers only very slightly. There is no hop taste present. The mouthfeel is medium. Like the Kaltenberg Hell and other Munich Helles beers, the taste of this beer is over once swallowed except for a very faint lingering bitterness. Towards the end, some hop could be detected in the aroma when the beer is sloshed around to relaease more CO2.

An extremely drinkable and refreshing Helles.

The aroma is slightly malty sweet. The taste starts sweet and is balanced by a mild bitterness that lingers only sightly. But the overall impression of this beer is still malty. Much more than the average Helles or Pilsner. The carbonation is lower than an average Pils. There is a subtle malt taste and sweetness that is other than just Pilsner malt. I guess that there is some munich malt or specialty malt in the grist. There is no hop taste and the hop presence is very slight. Some Weissbiers seem more hoppy than this beer. The mouthfeel is almost full, but because of the sweetness and the full mouthfeel, this beer doesn't seem as easy drinking as for example the Augustiner Edelstoff. But that was an Export and this beer here is a Helles.

The aroma is strongly malty sweet with a hint of alcohol. The taste starts malty sweet with an almost sugary sweet or cloying taste of Munich malt. The finish shows the Bock typical roughness, but it doesn't feel as harsh in this beer as it felt with other Bockbiers. This might be a result of the increased sweetness of the beer. The bitterness is low and doesn't linger. The mouthfeel is above medium and almost full. Despite the 8.1% Abv, the alcohol doesn't stand out in this beer. I didn't taste any, but felt its strength later. In general, this beer feels very smooth for its high alcohol content.

This was the sweetest (taste wise) Doppelbock so far and it showed me that I prefer them a little drier.

Stammwuerze: 19.3 %

Alcohol: 8.1 % abv

Residual extract: 4.2 %

Attenuation: 78%

A Festbier is generally malt dominated and brewed a little stronger than a Helles. Oktoberfest beers and Maerzens can be considered Festbiers.

This beer has a sweet malty aroma. It's taste is malt dominated without being sweet, a character of many German beers. The maltiness is not distinctly Munich though. The bitterness is low, but present and lingers only slightly. The mouthfeel is above medium but not yet full like many Doppelbocks are. There is no hop taste.

This is a great and easy drinking beer, even tough it wasn't in the right glass for the style.

The aroma shows a hint of roast but is otherwise clean. No hops or fruity character is present. The taste is dry and it finishes slightly roasty. The bitterness is assertive but only as strong as it would be in a northern German Pils. It also lingers fairly long. There is no hop taste present. The mouthfeel is below the average for a German Pils. There is no significant malt taste other than the slight roastiness but it doesn't taste like water colored with dark malt either. When sloshed strongly to release more of the aroma a faint fruit character is actually present.

The aroma is slightly hoppy that shifts to slightly malty once the head is gone. The taste is not sweet as the Muenchner Urtyp and maybe a little dry. It is accompanied by a low bitterness that doesn't linger. The malt character is slightly more than just Pilsner malt and the beer is in general very easy drinking. There is also a faint hop taste present.

The aroma is slightly phenolic with some alcohol presence. The start is sweet and malty and followed by some clove spiciness. There is also some slight alcohol roughness that lingers slightly. It has the typical rough finish of a Bock. Some aromatic higher alcohols also develop in the finish, which means some of the alcohol content can be tasted. This was not the case with most other Bocks and Doppelbocks. The mouthfeel is full. But the (Munich-) malty taste is not as strong as it is for a classic dark Bock or Doppelbock. The Weissbier character (clove and other yeast derived flavors) is on the lower end compared to many other Weissbiers.

Stamwürze: 18.5 % (or Plato)

Alcohol: 8.2 % abv

Final Extract: 3.6 % (or Plato)

Apparent Attenuation: 81%

The aroma is slightly hoppy with some malty sweet notes. A malty and slightly sweet start is balanced by some bitterness which doesn't linger. The mouthfeel is full. I cannot taste any munich malt though, which means that they may have used a different malt to color this beer. Once the head is gone the aroma shifts more towards the malt and the hop aroma almost disappears. This beer is balanced towards the malt. All flavor components that I mentioned are fairly subtle which is true for almost all German beers in general.

The aroma is distinctively roast (more than just a hint) but otherwise clean. The taste starts out dry and thin and is then followed by roast. The bitterness is low but the roast lingers quite a bit. The mouthfeel is rather thin and the beers aroma and taste is reminicent of a water extract of a roasted malt like Carafa. There is some sweetness present but it doesn't appear to be that of munich malt.

The aroma is predominantly phenolic. The taste starts moderately sweet, but not as sweet as many other Weissbiers have been. It finishes with a clove spiciness and hop bitterness that is only moderately strong (less than the Ayinger Urweisse for example). The bitterness and spiciness lingers a little. Mixed into the spicy finish seems to be some fruit character but not strong enough to tell the kind of ester. The well carbonated beer has a medium mouthfeel but no significant malt character. There is no yeasty or bready character to this beer.

The aroma is slightly phenolic with some sweetness. The taste starts sweet and is followed by a clove spiciness and relatively strong bitterness. That bitterness lingers a little. Some malt taste other than Pilsner and Wheat is present in the finish, but the clove spiciness makes it hard to tell what kind of malt (munich or crystal).

A great Weissbier with a nice balance between hops, yeast spiciness and malt, but the finish is a little to intense for my liking.

The aroma is slightly malty with some alcohol being apparent. It starts with a sweet malty taste that is finished by a munich malt character. This character is much lower than it is in a typical Dunkel or dark Bock. But it is very reminiscent of that taste. The bitterness is perceived as low, mostly because of the malty sweetness of the beer, but it lingers a little with is in indication for more hops than what would go into a typical Helles. The sweetness is not sugary and well balanced by the hops. The mouthfeel is between above average and full. It has a little bit of that "roughness" in the finish that I found in all Bock beers so far, but the alcohol cannot be tasted.

A nice Maibock, but a little bit to much on the sweet side for my taste.