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Cierzo Brewing

- From:
- Cierzo Brewing
- Spain
- Style:
- Weizenbock
- ABV:
- 9%
- Score:
- +8 ratings needed
- Avg:
- 4.13 | pDev: 0.48%
- Ratings:
- | reviews: 1
- Status:
- Inactive
- Rated:
- May 08, 2021
- Added:
- Mar 22, 2021
- Wants:
- 0
- Gots:
- 0
No description / notes.
Recent ratings and reviews.
Reviewed by JonnoWillsteed from England
4.15/5 rDev +0.5%
look: 4.5 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
4.15/5 rDev +0.5%
look: 4.5 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
#1806 - Blind-tasted except for the beer's name and brewery/country, zero reviews below read (yet!)...
First thing, have your glass ready when you pop the ring-pull. My can is well rested and chilled but I pulled the ring and foam was immediately coming out on top of the can. Not a criticism just 'Be prepared' as is the beer scouts motto.
L- Pours jet-black. Even held to a halogen bulb not a photon gets through. Instant huge eager head on pouring. I managed to pour half the can into a c400ml glass, which after 2mins is still about 50% beer and 50% dark tan foamy writhing, rising/falling/undulating head on top! It's putting on quite a show! [ps @+15mins, holds reeeally well, kudos to the beer!]; it gets a very rare 4.5/5 for Look from me, something I maybe have never given before....
S- I think it smells of coffee, probably cocoa is present and is deeply roasty-toasty...
T- BOOM! Coffee, burnt log cinders.... as in charred but not seriously smokey at all (like a rauchbier is) just mega-roasty. The ABV% comes in as a very polished almost liquor-ish note riding over the top. I realise that the coffee only suggested itself briefly initially, it's now focused on the really deep roast notes afterwards, with some dark cocoa I think... there is also a hoppy-dry facet into the finish.
F- It's overall notably full-on, but I'm relieved it hasn't gone down the 'oh too common' contemporary route of being loaded with OTT sugar/malt/dextrose/lactose etc. Despite contemporary packaging the beer itself seems more trad in it's make up, albeit a double-barrel offering of a brew.
O- ... I top up my glass and can see on this 2nd/final pour come serious sediment in the mix. If you aren't into the latter then use a bigger glass to decant in one go and handle the can/pour with care.
It's pungent, deep, enjoyable and would make a great slow-sipper, esp in cold/winter months. It's also very polished, balanced and altogether pretty darn lovely. What it's not is sweet/over-rich/unbalanced or shouty (at 9% this is an easy trap to fall into). I really like it and am surprised by it, it gets the medal for 'Best positive surprise' in the last say 50 new beers I've had.
Review/scoring all done, now the reveal, I get to read the can lables to see what I missed! ==> A Spanish take on a German Impl. Dark Weizenbock - tell me that at a blind-tasting, plus a modern labelled 440ml can a I'll be 'Yah right, here we go, is it a lactose hipster sugar-bomb?'. No way... this is really nice, and I'd happily drink it again. ps. Ingredients listed are straight down the line 'trad'... no other adjuncts etc, and it shows in a darn fine beer.... big kudos to the brewers.
440ml can '[Canned?] 04/01/2021' printed over edge of can's foot - and BB stated at +12months. c£5.10 ouch, but then again I'm not that surprised it's quite a gem of a beer. Bought from TremblingMadness, York/UK as part of a large pick-your own consignment to London.
May 08, 2021First thing, have your glass ready when you pop the ring-pull. My can is well rested and chilled but I pulled the ring and foam was immediately coming out on top of the can. Not a criticism just 'Be prepared' as is the beer scouts motto.
L- Pours jet-black. Even held to a halogen bulb not a photon gets through. Instant huge eager head on pouring. I managed to pour half the can into a c400ml glass, which after 2mins is still about 50% beer and 50% dark tan foamy writhing, rising/falling/undulating head on top! It's putting on quite a show! [ps @+15mins, holds reeeally well, kudos to the beer!]; it gets a very rare 4.5/5 for Look from me, something I maybe have never given before....
S- I think it smells of coffee, probably cocoa is present and is deeply roasty-toasty...
T- BOOM! Coffee, burnt log cinders.... as in charred but not seriously smokey at all (like a rauchbier is) just mega-roasty. The ABV% comes in as a very polished almost liquor-ish note riding over the top. I realise that the coffee only suggested itself briefly initially, it's now focused on the really deep roast notes afterwards, with some dark cocoa I think... there is also a hoppy-dry facet into the finish.
F- It's overall notably full-on, but I'm relieved it hasn't gone down the 'oh too common' contemporary route of being loaded with OTT sugar/malt/dextrose/lactose etc. Despite contemporary packaging the beer itself seems more trad in it's make up, albeit a double-barrel offering of a brew.
O- ... I top up my glass and can see on this 2nd/final pour come serious sediment in the mix. If you aren't into the latter then use a bigger glass to decant in one go and handle the can/pour with care.
It's pungent, deep, enjoyable and would make a great slow-sipper, esp in cold/winter months. It's also very polished, balanced and altogether pretty darn lovely. What it's not is sweet/over-rich/unbalanced or shouty (at 9% this is an easy trap to fall into). I really like it and am surprised by it, it gets the medal for 'Best positive surprise' in the last say 50 new beers I've had.
Review/scoring all done, now the reveal, I get to read the can lables to see what I missed! ==> A Spanish take on a German Impl. Dark Weizenbock - tell me that at a blind-tasting, plus a modern labelled 440ml can a I'll be 'Yah right, here we go, is it a lactose hipster sugar-bomb?'. No way... this is really nice, and I'd happily drink it again. ps. Ingredients listed are straight down the line 'trad'... no other adjuncts etc, and it shows in a darn fine beer.... big kudos to the brewers.
440ml can '[Canned?] 04/01/2021' printed over edge of can's foot - and BB stated at +12months. c£5.10 ouch, but then again I'm not that surprised it's quite a gem of a beer. Bought from TremblingMadness, York/UK as part of a large pick-your own consignment to London.
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