Kloster Urstoff
Rother Bräu

RB transfer

Pours a somewhat hazy golden amber color with a thin foamy head. Head retention is decent as is the lacing. Has a farmyard, crackery aroma with hints of caramel. The taste is the same with a peppery hint. Light bodied with moderate carbonation.

Appearance:
Pours into the glass with a rich and fairly thick head that quickly dissipates, leaving behind delicate lacing. The beer exhibits remarkable clarity, allowing for almost effortless reading through its dark, deep gold color. In terms of aroma, the scent is dominated by wet grain, with subtle notes of toffee lingering in the background.
Taste:
Delightful combination of toffee, breadiness, and a hint of nuttiness, accompanied by a noticeable but not lingering sweetness.
Smell:
Rather bland but sweet hops with a slightly creamy texture, while smooth malts provide a rather pleasant experience.

 

 

 

 

 

This is a momentous review for me, #2000. I had been thinking about hitting the number since the summer. Will I save something interesting to review? Something old but un-reviewed? Well, with the pandemic and all, I am quite observant of only going out in a necessity (shopping remotely, etc.). So we end up with this beer, because all I have are what's in the aging box downstairs and what's left of the Costco advent calendar (I opened them under the unothodox atheist calendar).

Everything about this beer is much more subtle than in American beers of this style. The color is paler, the aroma weaker, the taste less malty (but exquisitely balanced), the finish cleaner. The other Bavarian marzen I've tried lately were similar - light versions of what we see here. This is the best of them, I think.

Recommended. I'm glad that for my 2000th review I didn't follow my formulaic review (Blah blah, look, aroma, taste, finish, blah blah). It was formulaic as far as blah blah, one paragraph about the beer, blah, blah.

Appearance: Golden orange, with a touch of haze, and a large, moderately coarse off-white head with very good retention. Belgian-style lacing adorns the glass wall. Profuse streams of minute, slow-rising bubbles are visible before a strong light.

Aroma; Sticky caramel dominates the aroma, there is also a notable rustic white bread, crackers, over-ripe apples, and a balancing presence of earthy, grassy and herbal hops.

Taste: Opens with abundant caramel and bread malts, a little toasted character of Munich malt appears soon after. Overripe fruit present, as in the aroma, with flavors of overripe apples and pears. Late in the taste, there is a little toasted bread crust and a bit of nuttiness. Finishes with a mild flourish of metallic hops against the backdrop of sweet caramel.

Mouth feel: Full and soft, pleasant.

Drinkability/notes: Pleasant and drinkable, it seems a bit sweet for the style, but certainly, not at all bad.

Presentation: Packaged in a 500 ml, 16.9 ounce steel can, served in a Duvel chalice.

 

$ 2.50 (Including tax)/500 mL can ($0.148/oz) from Costco, Schertz, TX. Part of the Costco 2019 Advent Calendar. Reviewed 11/21/19.
Can dated “EXP 05/2021”. Stored on the shelf at the store, stored at home at 42 degrees and served at 50 degrees in a hand washed and dried 0.5L glass stein.
Appearance – 3.
First pour – Gold, clear.
Body – Gold, slight haze.
Head – Large (Maximum 12 cm, stabilizing at five cm, aggressive center pour), off white, average retention, diminishing to a three mm crown and a complete cap.
Lacing – None
Aroma – 3 – Very weak toasted malt, no hops.
Flavor – 3 – Begins and ends with lightly toasted, slightly bitter, malt. No hops. A bit of toffee on the belch. No alcohol (5.4 % ABV as marked on the can) flavor or aroma, no diacetyl.
Palate – 2.75 – Medium, almost syrupy, soft carbonation.
Final impression and summation: 3. A very average marzen, definitely not one to seek out. Number 22 consumed of the 24 in the box and the first NOT to say “Privatbrauerei H. Egerer” anywhere on the can.

CAN: 500ml. From Costco's 2019 Beer Advent Calendar pack.

Too sweet, but at least it has some notes of toasted malt. Heavy residual sugars are present throughout along with caramelized malt sweetness, bready malts, fruitcake-redolent notes, and Munich malts.

Poorly attenuated. Imbalanced/too sweet for the style.

A bit of a chore to drink, which isn't what you want in a Marzen. Not a great expression of the intended style by any stretch, but it's okay.

Low C- / BELOW AVERAGE

 

 

 

Served in a pint glass from the can.

Appearance: Medium gold color which is quite transparent with medium to heavy bubbles on the body.

Smell: bland hops with not much complexity but then again it's a marzen.

Taste: Sweet hops, slightly creamy. Malts are smooth but nothing that will blow your mind. Nice thirst quencher.

Mouth: medium to heavy bubbles. Not so sticky but I don't expect much from marzens.

Overall: descent beer but feel like I have had it before, taste a lot like some of the other sister beers that originally came in this advent calendar sampler pack. Worth having not worth hunting. Salud!