Weltenburger Klosterbrauerei Anno 1050

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

330ml bottle from International Advent Calendar. Best before 17 June 2015; drank it on 15 November 2015, so I'm a little late. Nice looking pour of dark gold, some haze, and a larger fluffy white head. Bready aroma, and floral as well. Mouth quite okay for the style. Flavour was agreeable, following the aroma. A decent beer.

Aroma: 8 | Appearance: 5 | Mouthfeel: 6 | Flavor: 6 | Overall: 6

Clear darker yellow with decent white lacing foam head. Bit weak aroma, regular pilsener. Tastes quite strong barley, bit bitter, nice fresh. Nice fresh aftertaste. Bit carbonated. (Velp 201402)

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

500 ml bottle. Poured in an original Weltenburger glass a rich golden amber colored beer with a one finger white creamy foamy head that had a long retention. Active carbonation. Good lacing. The aroma is sweet grainy malts, juicy fruits, orange, apples, floral hops. The flavour is slight caramelized malts, weak grassy hops, a touch of honey. The mouthfeel is a bit crispy then very smooth. A well balanced beer. This medium bodied beer has a long fruity and bitter finish. A pleasant beer.

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

This is a very refreshing beer and I could easily drink it all night. The flavor is clean grain with an excellent bite in the finish. The beer is a nice looking - clear golden amber liquid with a healthy white head of foam. There are sweet caramel and sour lemon notes. All around very nice for the style.

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

Bottled (from beerangel.de). Deep golden colour (almost coppery) with big off-white creamy/foamy head. Aroma is bready malts, some fruity and metallic notes as well as quite earthy and herbal notes. At first the metallicness was strong, but vanishes, as the beer gets to stand for itself for a while. Flavour is bready malts along with caramel malts, some slight wooden bitterness and also nuttyness and both some floral and fruity hops. Not really that viennaish for anything but the flavour, but then again, very hard to place in any category. As it warms up it gets some slight burnt wet wooden notes. Probably one of the most interesting beers I’ve had from Germany.

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

500 ml bottle, courtesy of Cardinal pub, Stavanger. ABV is 5.5. Deep golden colour, large head. Nice aroma for a golden lager: fruity and floral hops with moderate malts. The flavour is fairly malty and well rounded, some sweetness, balanced by moderate hops. Soft mouthfeel. A decent lager, well above average.

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

This was the best tasting oktoberfest style beer I have ever had. A red orange colored body that was medium bodied and delicious tasting. I noticed a good balance of hops and caramel flavors when I initially smelled the beer and when I drank it. The hops also imparted some spicy notes which I found to be very appealing.

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

Dark golden, small white head. Malty aroma of caramel, bread and grass. A bit thin palate with a slightly sweet flavour of caramelmalt, bread and biscuit. Medium bitter finish.

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

Medium copper color. Large head. Aroma is malty and fruity. A medium bodied Vienna lager. Malts are nutty and slightly sweet. There is also a touch of fruit. Hops are a little spicy. Smooth taste. Well balanced. Nice drinkable Vienna. Mouthfeel is full and round Finish is clean and smooth. Aftertaste is slightly sweet.

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

Industry-standard 500mL long-tall brown glass bottle, with some sort of Germanic village scene pictured on the front label, as seen through a blue filter. Makes a big to-do about the fact that this brewery has been around since 1050 (thus the name, I suppose).

Interestingly enough (well, interesting to me, at least!) is the fact that I actually have the appropriate glass for this -- well, at least the right brewery. Where I got a dimpled Klosterbrauerei Weltenburg mug escapes me, but oh well, it'll work for a weizen!

Pours a bit on the dull side. Little head, no lacing. Odd aroma, too. Kind of a cross between the banana/cloviness of a hefweizen, with the cheap adjunct-ness of a malt liquor. Not neccesarily in a negative manner, mind you, but still a bit different.

More of the same with the flavor profile. Seems to straddle the kline between decently made weizen-bier, and swillish-tasting knuckle-dragging beer. A bit on the sugary-sweet cloying side in the finish. I guess it's lucky that this is a Reinheitsgebot beer -- who knows what sort of monster this would be if adjuncts were freely allowed to be introduced.

Despite it's tetter-tottering towards cheap mind-numbing swill, I can't say that I disliked this beer. Wouldn't buy it again, but can't mark it down too heavilily, either....
//TB