Eisenbahn Lust

Aroma: 9 | Appearance: 6 | Mouthfeel: 9 | Flavor: 8 | Overall: 8

drank 13th September 2008 at 6:45pm , thanks to Hurricane IKE drank in a hot motel room listening to a crap radio clock ... pours with a huge white head, dark yellow-orange colour ... yeasty and syrup champagne like aromas ... complex and spritzy flavours .. abv sop well hidden.. i wish i had many more.. Wishlist cross-off: put on originally 7/21/2007

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

Perfectly, excitedly, well carbonated. The beer pours with a cresting, yet not overflowing, easily seven-finger thick, light tan colored head that is frothy with a medium froth size. The beer has tons of streams of mad bubbles streaming up from the bottom of my tulip glass and is a brilliantly clear, reddish tinged, full copper color. As the head slowly recedes it produces a variegated, crag mired surface and nice lacing patterns on the sides of my glass. The aroma is fairly fruity with notes of caramelized apples, raisins, sweet plums and fresh figs. Purely malt driven notes contribute to a lesser degree, but I definitely smell notes of fresh crushed soda crackers, bread crust and a solid biscuit-like maltiness. Touches of spiciness also add to the aromatic components; I notice flavors of white pepper, a touch of young ginger notes, some clove-like phenolics and notes of allspice. Overall the aroma is quite sweet and fruity smelling; sweet like fresh, ripe fruit and not like a dessert though.

Quite sweet tasting, even more so than I was expecting from the aroma. This definitely accentuates the fruit notes; notes of caramelized apples, raisins and prunes are most noticeable. The carbonation is fairly substantial feeling, but the sweetness and medium full body really softens its effect. Said another way, the substantial carbonation helps to keep this beer quite a bit lighter than it otherwise would be. While this is sweet, it really leans more to the heft that a sweeter wine would have, it is not nearly as thick as a typical all malt beer of this strength would be. The beer finishes with a spicy, almost astringent note, a touch of warming alcohol and a very light bitterness.

As the beer warms up from its initial 50°F (10°C) it picks up some subtle touches of woodiness or even plasticized (though not in a bad way) leather character in the finish. The malt character picks up a bit and the sweetness gets a bit more tempered as the beer warms too. A lot of this tempering manifests itself in the form of a salty, peat-like smokiness that is just barely perceptible at times, but definitely present (though I am not implying that any peat malt was used, though you never know). This could definitely be a bit drier and a bit spicier / funky; this would evoke the champagne-like character quite a bit more. Still it is quite tasty and certainly a beer worth trying. While this does have a touch of warming alcohol character, it manages to hide the 11.5% alcohol quite well. This is definitely best enjoyed on the warmer side of things, the suggested serving temperatures would definitely have ruined this beer for me. In the end this is quite enjoyable, but it really could be so much more complex and interesting.

Purchased via mail order: Liquid Solutions

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

Pour a hazy yellow color with small head, but lots of carbonation. Aroma was of malts and grass. Flavor was of sweet light fruits malts some spice. Mouthfeel was very carbonated.

Aroma: 6 | Appearance: 5 | Mouthfeel: 6 | Flavor: 4 | Overall: 5

Golden yellow, smallish head. Strong aroma of sweet candy and malts. Overwhelming sweetness that made it hard to finish even my small portion (thanks to eaglefan538 for sharing nonetheless). Highly carbonated, slightly grassy or else this would have been totally undrinkable for me. Ugh...not again.

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

Pours a hazy orangey color, significant bubbley head (but not as much as Deus or Malhuer blonde weak in that sense relative to its peers), weak retention, though (all champagne carbonation). The aroma was candied pils malts and slight grass. The flavor was candied light fruits, strong pils malts (light sulfur), light grass, a touch of honey, some yeast, and some finishing spices. The mouthfeel was carbonated, moderately bodied, a little sticky (but kept honest by the dry yeastiness and carbonation).