The Last Aurochs Weizenbock
Driftwood Brewery

Clear and darker then I was expecting with a reddish brown color to it, pours with a double finger worth of tan colored sudsy looking head that has a moderate retention to it an leaves a light film of lacing on the glass.

Malty nose, sweet with a nice caramel aroma, notes of banana bread and grainy wheat with a faint hint of a floral hops to the back end.

Malt forward, sweet and slightly fruity malt flavor to it with hint of something like a grape or plum notes to it with maybe something like dried currants.

Very solidly malty body with a dark malt syrup flavor, faintly grainy with some light banana foster notes to it as well.

Finish is slightly bittersweet, faintly sappy tasting hop hints with a trace of ginger, cloves and cinnamon on the back end along with the lingering dark fruit aftertaste, slight stickiness on the lips and boozy alcohol warmth to it, gives a bit of a fruit cake impression to me.

Medium/ heavy bodied with a smooth, creamy mouthfeel and an off-dry finish with just a slightly above average amount of carbonation to it.

 

 

 

 

On as guest tap at Swans Brewpub , pour is dark brown with a tan head
banana on the nose , caramel malt start , dark fruits follow
mild carbonation , medium body , interesting beer
prost LampertLand

 

650ml bottle (@ 8% ABV) - very Game of Thrones-esque florid text in the label blurb here, as is the norm of late.

This beer pours a clear, dark mahogany brown colour, with three fingers of puffy, loosely foamy, and bubbly tan head, which leaves some melting back car window ice lace around the glass as things slowly sink away.

It smells of banana cream, grainy and doughy wheaten malt, some earthy old-school yeastiness, subtle black pepper and clove spice, and a sense of alcohol love as yet unrequited. The taste is bready and doughy caramel malt, a lesser grainy wheatiness, strong damp banana chips, still moderated yeasty notes, a bit of bruised dark stone fruitiness, muddled musty spices, and more mostly (mostly) restrained wowee sauce esters.

The carbonation is quite tame in its low-profile frothiness, the body a decent medium weight, and generally smooth, with perhaps a minor booze edginess making a dent in the otherwise pristine paint job here. It finishes off-dry, but not by all that much - the lingering sweetness seeming to not be long for this world.

Overall, this is an enjoyable enough version of the style, with the sauced-up wheat beer essence almost lost amidst the banana bread miasma - not a bad thing, really, but not exceedingly good, either. Interesting, to a point, and not that far out of scope, but I shall indeed have a bit of trouble attempting to polish off this particular serving.

Pours a bit of head, but only a thin ring of retention. Brightly filtered, no yeast in the bottle.

Sweet banana bread aroma, which comes through it the flavour as well. Not overly bready though, with some sweet caramel malts and warming alcohol. Definitely domestic in flavour.

Light residual sweetness with a slightly drying finish.