Weiherer India Pale Ale
Brauerei Gasthof Kundmüller

Silver medal award winner in 2019 (Meininger's). From the half liter bottle, it pours a hazy darker amber color with a nice light tan/off-white head that slowly diminishes as you watch. The nose gets citrus, as expected, with notes of pineapple and apple. The taste follows the nose, but with a nice bitterness coming through.

L:
-pours a slightly hazy copper-red with a small to medium,frothy,offwhite head
-low to medium carbonation visible
S:
-malty,spicy,strawberries,herbal,caramel
T:
-Follows the nose + bready,syrupy
F:
-medium carbonation
-light to medium body
O:
IPA with a heavy malt Base.Reminds me a lot of some old school East Coast IPAs in the early craft beer days.The Aroma Hops are getting buried by the malt Base and can't shine at all.This needs a bigger Hop kick to be balanced.

Pours a cloudy, dark red amber coloration with a large, creamy head. Smells of biscuity, caramel malt and resinous, fruity hops, with notes of honeydew melon, red berries, grapefruit and pine. Taste is an excellent balance of sweet'ish biscuity, caramel malt and quite bitter, resinous but also vibrantly fruity hops, with notes of honeydew melon, red berries, grapefruit and papaya, as well as quite a nice dose of pine. Finishes with a strong bitterness and some red berries, grapefruit and pine lingering in the aftertaste. Full mouthfeel with a medium body and carbonation.

I haven't had many good experiences with craft styles from traditional, Franconian breweries so far, to be honest, but this just blew me away. It's basically a proper West Coast IPA, with quite a bitter, resinous character and rich caramel malt backbone, but also has got some quite vibrant, fruity notes to it, with the German Huell Melon hops really coming through here with rich honeydew melon and red berry notes, as well as the more traditional citrus and lighter tropical notes from the American hops also used that you would expect from the style. A very well-balanced, expressive brew that combines German and American hops perfectly and that some of those hyped German craft breweries making nothing but New England style IPAs could learn a thing or two from. Absolutely incredible coming from this small, traditional Franconian brewery, but then again, they have collaborated with Pittsburgh's Fat Head's brewery twice before, so I guess that explains a lot.