Original notes 01/12/11 2008 vintage. 12 oz bottle. Big thanks go out to finewinemike for the chance to try this as part of my Secret Santa 2010 box. Pour is a dark brown, muddy affair with a huge, well retained coffee colored, ice-cream styled foam that eventually falls away to give a light foam. Nose gives a fairly predictable sherry like note, but to be honest it comes with a little oxidative, mustiness that takes the edge of a little. The tastes do something similar. A sweet, very light...
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Kuhnhenn Raspberry Eisbock
Perhaps the beer that I have sought more than any other over the course of the last few years. Delighted to have a chance to get my hands on this one at last. 2007 vintage, 6.3 oz green bottle. Dark red waxed and capped. Rustic looking, parchment type label. Deliberately poured into a wine glass rather than a beer snifter. Toffee colored body with a minimal amount of bubbly head and lace. Beer sits still in the glass. Swirling produces some fantastic alcohol legs on the glass. The nose is...
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