Kloster-Sud
Klosterbrauerei Weißenohe

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From:
Klosterbrauerei Weißenohe
 
Germany
Style:
Kellerbier / Zwickelbier
Ranked #84
ABV:
5.4%
Score:
85
Ranked #20,441
Avg:
3.75 | pDev: 13.07%
Reviews:
18
Ratings:
25
Status:
Active
Rated:
Aug 06, 2023
Added:
Jul 29, 2007
Wants:
  3
Gots:
  5
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Rated: 4 by SSGCujo from Wisconsin

Aug 06, 2023
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Reviewed by BillyNoonan from Ireland

4.1/5  rDev +9.3%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
Pours a really lovely dark clear amber, medium head. Immediate notes of malt, raisin and toffee. Smooth feel with note of spice and bread and follows nose. This is a lovely beer from start to finish, with plenty of character and complexity.
Aug 04, 2023
 
Rated: 3.95 by Shaneox from Ireland

Sep 04, 2022
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Reviewed by aleigator from Germany

3.89/5  rDev +3.7%
look: 4.25 | smell: 2.75 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4.25
Pours a brilliant dark amber to light brown color with a fluffy medium sized head.

Smells of dried orange peel, toffee, a light tartness and toasty nuts.

Has a light, soft mouthfeel, showcasing an intriguing balance with a nice effervescent peak.

Tastes of a soft aqueous note, joined by surprisingly toasty, rustic malts and a bakers chocolate hint. Develops a nice herbal dryness during mid palate, highlighting the toffee with a light caramel peak. Finishes light and soft, with rustic, bready malts, including only a well nuanced sweet note.

Brilliantly well made Dunkel, hitting all the right spots. Its rustic, earthy with a chocolate and toffee sweetness, balanced by a light hoppiness. Very versatile for its light mouthfeel, once started I just can't stop drinking this.
May 27, 2017
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Reviewed by biboergosum from Canada (AB)

3.71/5  rDev -1.1%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
500ml bottle - lots and lotsa German on this label, and not much English, which is not a problem, but just an observation for the newbie import agent.

This beer pours a clear, bright medium copper amber colour, with three fingers of puffy, finely foamy, and mildly bubbly tan head, which leaves a few instances of streaky isthmus lace around the glass as it quickly sinks away.

It smells of semi-sweet, bready and biscuity caramel malt, a very buttery nuttiness, ethereal wet dirt notes, some muddled dark orchard fruitiness, a hint of free-range ash, and some plain earthy, weedy, and floral noble hop bitters. The taste is bready and doughy caramel malt, a lesser toffee biscuit joint, more clammy nuts, brown sugar syrup, and some still understated leafy, musty, and musky floral verdant hoppiness.

The carbonation is quite virile in its take-charge frothiness, the body a solid middleweight, and mostly smooth, just a touch of that weird char maybe not making the best of friends right now. It finishes on the sweet side, but in a duly moderated sense.

Overall, this is an agreeable enough version of the style, in that I don't really know what to be looking for, and at the same time, find nothing particularly out of sorts to complain about. Very malty, with a bit of smoke and Old School hops, is my conclusion.
Apr 04, 2017
 
Rated: 3.89 by safaricook from Netherlands

Jun 12, 2016
 
Rated: 3.4 by BAsbill from California

Mar 30, 2016
 
Rated: 2.67 by DOCRW from Kentucky

Oct 20, 2015
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Reviewed by drmeto from Germany

3.72/5  rDev -0.8%
look: 4.25 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75
L:
-pours a rich amber with a medium,foamy,quickly dissipating,off-white head
-low-medium carbonation visible
S:
-bready,very nutty,roasty touch
T:
-nutty,toffee,chocolate,slightly roasty
F:
-light-medium body,medium carbonation
O:
Really different for a Lager.I enjoyed it.
May 29, 2015
 
Rated: 3.57 by DuncanMcBommer from Germany

Feb 10, 2015
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Reviewed by Smakawhat from Maryland

3.47/5  rDev -7.5%
look: 4 | smell: 3.25 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
Poured from the bottle into a pils glass.

Deep orange amber body color. Crystal clear, with minimal carbonation rising. Head is a bit soapy and minimal swiss cheese like retention in its creation, at a simple two fingers barely tall. Settles though to a very thick and elevated collar on the ring, soapy, ans simple white in color.

Aroma is just weird and unexpected. Mud. Dirty earth, but at least with a toasty brown bread quality. Very unexpected, the dark color seems to hint at some different malt quality and it seems to show. It improves over time, and more of the toast quality dominates, but the first whiff is actually not pleasant.

Palate comes very lightly. A slight wet and watery palate, mish mashes with a faint caramel. Very dry brown bread crusty flavors that finish nicely on the mid palate, but leave an odd astringent bitterness. Hop toast brown bread a bit, but this really seems to come off wet and like a dull Marzen.

It's an ok beer to drink, probably a bit special in it's own realm, but this has very little appeal to me personally.
Oct 13, 2014
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Reviewed by GONZALOYANNA from Spain

3.37/5  rDev -10.1%
look: 3 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3 | overall: 3.25
500ml bottle. Bavaria footed lager glass. Reddish amber color, clear appearanc. Off-white head shows shy retention. Noble hop & caramel aromas rounded by hints of toffee. Toasted & sweet malty upfront with herbal notes. Light body. Soft carbonation. Toffee & fudge chocolate flavors touched by low hoppiness lingers into a sweet –chocolate infusion-like- finish. Herbs on the aftertaste. A delightful & easy drinkable beer.
Mar 09, 2014
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Reviewed by Evil_Pidde from Sweden

3.97/5  rDev +5.9%
look: 4.5 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
A: Copper pour with lots of small bubbles under an off-white very compact and thick medium-tall head. Slow dissipation leaves rich lacings.

S: Roasted malt, somewhat sweet. Bitter hops. Some dark dried fruits, but not sweet. Some dark rye-bread, almost like pumpernickel. Very mild; smoked ham.

T: Sweet creamy full malt, bready. Some bitter hops lures in the back. Dark syrup. This one is all about the malt.

M: Aftertaste is sweet and slightly roasted, medium long. Body is very creamy and full. Carbonation is surprisingly low, considering all the bubbles.

O: Nice and well crafted. I'm having this with BBQ - works perfectly.
Jul 05, 2013
 
Rated: 3.75 by MacarthurParker from Ethiopia

Feb 12, 2013
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Reviewed by acevenom from Louisiana

4.55/5  rDev +21.3%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 5 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.5
Poured into a glass mug. Pours clear dark golden with a thick white head and plentiful tiny streaming bubbles. Some lacing is left on the side of the glass during consumption. I pick up aromas of bready and sweet malts with some grassy and floral hop aromas. The malt flavor of this beer is of biscuit, brown bread, and caramel. The floral and grassy hop flavors are there. There are also some slight spicy notes. There's also some possible yeast notes here. This is a medium bodied beer with moderate carbonation. The beer is smooth and very drinkable. This is an excellent beer.
Nov 21, 2012
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Reviewed by eduardolinhalis from Switzerland

4.13/5  rDev +10.1%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.5
500ml bottle served in a Weizen glass.

A: Pours a beautiful dark orange/copper color forming a huge bubble and fluffy light yellow head. Absolutely clear. Excellent retention and tons of lacings formed and left in the glass

S: Strong toffee and caramel malts upfront followed by brown bread, earthy Lager yeasts. Notes of oak and nuts. A bit fruity and nice flowery hops in the end

T: Slightly sweet upfront. Toffee and caramel malts, mainly. Nuts, brown bread and oak. Smooth hoppy bitter end

M: Medium and bit molasses body. Quite creamy. Good carbonation. Aftertaste is mainly made of toffee, caramel and light hops bitterness

O: Excellent drinkability. Great beer. Recommended
Nov 13, 2012
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Reviewed by jonb5 from England

2.81/5  rDev -25.1%
look: 4 | smell: 3 | taste: 2.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 2.5
Half litre bottle, ruby colour when it came out of the bottle but it faded and looked more copper at the end. Medium taned head which dissapeared fast. Smelled malty with a hint of vanila. Tasted lots of roasted malt with notes of cola. Long bitter finish, smooth texture, slightly oily. Found it hard to finish, not my thing.
Mar 01, 2012
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Reviewed by Jugs_McGhee from Colorado

3.67/5  rDev -2.1%
look: 3 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 4 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
500 ml bottle poured into a generic goblet. Reviewed from notes.

A: 1.5 finger head of good cream and thickness. Decent retention. Non-transparent amber colour.

Sm: Amber malt, standard barley. Some estery fruit hops - maybe raspberry?

T: Amber lager barley body with a hoppy estery climax and lovely finish. Esters bleed into the finish, forming the highlight of the beer. A darker note emerges in the climax, but I can't quite place it - maybe a nutty note? Complex and nicely built, though there's really no template for the altbier style. A bit buttery and on the climax, with a hint of raspberry.

Mf: Nicely coarse, though a bit too wet.

Dr: Expensive but worth a go for ye beer loving lads. 5.70 Euro is not equivalent to this beer's quality.

***
02.21.2016 2nd impression:

C+
May 20, 2011
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Reviewed by rtepiak from Poland

4.17/5  rDev +11.2%
look: 4 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4
kloster meaning monastery and sud meaning stock, barrel or storage.

a surpriseingly broad flavored keller for something that was such a clear look. this is a keller that seems to have a character all its own in the distinction. its quite fruity for a style. the nose is quite proper basement in quality. nose of apple crisp. palate of apple, pear earthy, and parsley. not a sour itch. but not a malty aged quality like an alt. something to have for the keller community. a beer with character.
Feb 26, 2011
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Reviewed by RuudJH from Netherlands

3.75/5  rDev 0%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 4
0.5 l. bottle.
In my experience, most of these beers from Germany, when bought in Germany, are excellent value for money: usually about 1 euro (1.3 dollar) per pint bottle, even from the small breweries.
Not extremely complex or great, but good and decent beer, like this one.

Colour is orange copper, thin head, decent carbonation, good lacing.

Smell is grassy and floral hops, honey. Very malty and yeasty.

Taste is similar. Mild bitterness, with some spice.
Clean finish. Light mouthfeel, refreshing.
Nov 22, 2010
Kloster-Sud from Klosterbrauerei Weißenohe
Beer rating: 85 out of 100 with 25 ratings