Bushwakker Classic Vienna

Aroma: 9 | Appearance: 9 | Mouthfeel: 8 | Flavor: 9 | Overall: 9

This seems to be a forgotten beer. The last time I was at the brewwpub, this was down to 5.5% and no longer 5.7%. It's a great amber lager that seems to jump at the taste buds. The malt profile tends to be sweet and roasted, and this comes out in the flavour. It is hard to stop at just one.

Aroma: 7 | Appearance: 7 | Mouthfeel: 7 | Flavor: 7 | Overall: 7

Bottle courtesy of CBA: Poured a deep slightly cloudy amber color vienna with a good size head with great retention. Aroma of malt with a weird hint of peat/smoke and some light hops. Taste is a mix between some peat malt and some lightly sweet malt. Overall taste was drier then expected and that smoke/peat taste was going from gods knows where since I am sure there is no smoke malt in there. Overall, this was a weird experience but still rewarding and definitely not what I was expecting.

Aroma: 8 | Appearance: 9 | Mouthfeel: 7 | Flavor: 10 | Overall: 9

I can’t believe I never sampled this before. This is probably one of 2 ( and the best) examples of this elusive lager style in Canada. If Buswakker was down the street from me I’d rent out a back room there, move a cot in and stay there until the supply of this Austrian elixer was gone. Bottle: Pours a deep copper lager in the glass with a decent 3 finger cap that stays and laces. Aromas right to BJCP style guidlines...toasty malts, light sweetness herbal Hersbrucker hopping. sits in the background....excellent!! Up front you get a long chew on toasty real Vienna malts, the proper noble hopping rides just beneath radar in the background as a good Vienna should ( this is a showcase for the malter’s art)...mid palate the malt complexities mount; bundt cake, cinnamon toast, muffin dough...all with a wonderful woody-earthy-herbal tingle from the Hersbrucker-Tettnang-Hallertau hop infusion that riudes just out of radar range....Finish is soft, decadent and malt accented with the hops offering a subtle drying. Wunderbar! A perfect Vienna ; malt accented, soft, elegant maltiness that dries out in the finish to avoid becoming sweet.