Eisenbahn Weizenbock (Vigorosa)

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

Pours a deep brown with a medium off-white head, solid retention, no lace. It has a banana bread aroma with hints of plums. Cloves come to the forefront of the taste followed by some dark malt, lots of dark fruit - spiced plums, mission figs and raisins. The mouth feel is fairly boozy, prickly carbonation.

Aroma: 7 | Appearance: 7 | Mouthfeel: 6 | Flavor: 6 | Overall: 7

Okay Weizenbock that suffers from comparisons to the top beers of the style. Aventinus and the relatively new Weihenstephaner Vitus really blow this beer out of the water. It’s certainly not a bad beer. It’s just sort of simple and unsophisticated in comparison to the big German entries, which happen to be a couple of my very favorite beers. Anyway, this beer looks pretty good, red amber liquid with a dissipating beige head. There are some good wheat and fruit notes in the nose, but they’re a bit restrained. There just isn’t enough depth The flavor is too sweet and cloying for my taste. The flavors are syrupy clove, ripe banana and caramel malt. There are also some unpleasant alcohol notes. It’s not sharp, but there’s just a bit of a rubbing alcohol flavor around the edges. I sound down on this beer, but I think it’s good, just not great.

Aroma: 6 | Appearance: 8 | Mouthfeel: 7 | Flavor: 8 | Overall: 7

Looked flat with a murky brown body and a fizzy, disappearing head along with some minor lacing. Wonderfully rich aroma of caramel, black licorice and an earthy, peaty quality. Full bodied and heavily sweet, almost syrupy. Drinks smooth and doesn't indicate such a high alcohol content. Great flavors of raisins, banana and chocolate covered pastries. Dry wheat and bread back up the fruitiness. Full flavored and very nice.

Aroma: 7 | Appearance: 7 | Mouthfeel: 7 | Flavor: 6 | Overall: 6

Aroma is earthy with malty sweetness as well as some figs and slight smokiness. Appearance is a deep, reddish-burgundy in color with a full head on top that is light-tan in color and diminishes to lacing. Mouthfeel is medium-bodied with decent malty complexity as well as balance with a palate that is wet-like and bold. Flavor is sweet with maltiness with not much banana-clove overtones with an aftertaste that is robust and a finish that is clean an a bit subpar. Overall, not a bad weizenbock here from a brewer I have never experienced; it seems more of a dark lager in some respect...

Aroma: 7 | Appearance: 8 | Mouthfeel: 6 | Flavor: 9 | Overall: 9

A Brazilian made weizenbock alongside a 'german mountain cheese'. Not bad?I liked the spice taste it had... Roasty clove like taste. old bananas.... Filling, Full and round caramel malts. Mouthfeel maybe a bit thin. Toasted caramelized sesame toffee, scotchy sweet, fruits, jam and brown sugary glaze things. Livelier than a German weizenbock, (vigorous!) nice representation of the style

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

Pours a very cloudy, dark brown with a half inch fluffy head that fades slowly to a soapy cap. The lacing is thick, and leaves chucks of foam all over the inside of the glass. Smell; dark roasted caramel malts combine very nicely with a solid wheat aroma. There's also quite a bit of cloves, with some bananas and mild hints of dark fruits. A touch of alcohol is present in the background. Taste; the bananas and dark fruits are a bit more evident in the flavor, making this a touch sweet right up front. Caramel malts, wheat and a pretty nice presence of cloves fill out the middle, while a bit of spiciness helps to cover up some alcohol that's slightly noticeable, but not overpowering at all. Mouthfeel is maybe a touch thin for a Weizenbock, but still very smooth, a just short of creamy. The drinkability for me is very high, as i would have no problem putting a few of these down in a night, though with the alcohol, it might hurt a bit the next day.

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

Two for two are these Eisenbahn guys so far, although this was an interesting (smokey) take on the style, somewhat reminiscent of the Brooklyn Smoked Weizenbock I had recently. The pour was murky amber brown in color, nice off-white head, great retention, ok lacing. Aroma was fruity esters (light fruits, pears most prominent?), lightly roasted caramel, and phenolic spicing. The flavor was nutty malty with an unmistakeable smoke/rauch roasted malt backbone (if told this was a rach-weizenbock, I'd have agreed), light chocolate, a touch of bananas, and balanced phenolic spicing (cloves mostly). Mouthteel was quite smooth, far from sticky, good stuff. Very worthy of a pour into my Aventinus glass, maybe my second favorite weizenbock?