Tap 6: Mein Aventinus
Schneider Weisse G. Schneider & Sohn

Served in a 0.5 L weizen glass. A glass of cold water on the side to sip from periodically. This beer was bottled in 2003 and so has about 6 years of bottle age. Normally I'd have sampled a fresher one first, but this one was too tempting to pass up.

Appearance: As poured the beer is a medium golden brownish color, slightly hazy with a few small floaties in the bottom of the glass. The 1" light tan head is fed by steady persistent carbonation. Initially, sipping leaves rings and legs of foam but by about half way through there is a minimal ring of foam and sipping leaves no lacing at all. By the end of the beer there was no carbonation left but that didn't surprise since it took about 45 minutes to drink this one.

Smell: The aroma is soft and gentle but also complex, lightly sweet and yeasty. There is some light presence of brown sugar here, some clove and ripe dark fruit, mostly plum. There also seems to be hints of chocolate and vanilla.

Taste: The flavor here is very mellow and complex with some sweet dark brown sugar flavor, some dark fruits, mostly raisin and plum with no real trace of hops or alcohol. Not surprisingly as the beer warms the flavor opens up more, hints of some faint banana and chocolate and vanilla appear late in the beer

Mouthfeel: The mouth feel is medium-bodied with a soft, silky feel, persistent fine prickly carbonation that eventually becomes just the faintest feeling on tongue and in the mouth. Finish is long and eventually goes dry but has a slight yeasty character as well, both of which prevent the beer from cloying

Drinkability: At this ABV this is definitely a sipping beer that goes down quite easily. The rich complex flavor also dictates that this is a one a night beer for slow sipping. While, at the moment I suspect that 6 years of bottle age may have just put this one a bit past its peak, I'll know better after I try the 2005 and a newer one.

30 September 09, Comments on the 2005 Aventinus

The 03 definitely has a more subtle and complex flavor and aroma. The 05 has a banana, clove aroma and character that has receded a bit more by the 03, making for a more integrated flavor profile with the chocolate and vanilla coming out earlier. If rating this one first I think the overall score would have been slightly lower than it was for the 03.

14 Oct 09, Further comments on the 2003 Aventinus

I've now had at least 3 of these and wonder how I could have thought this one might be past its peak. Each of them has seemed more complex with more well integrated flavors than the one before it. The fresh is good, the 2005 is nice, but the 2003 is truely wonderful.

7 Mar 12, Revisiting the 2003 Aventinus

This tastes both as subtle and as complex as I remembered it to be. The additional months in the cooler have been kind to the beer and the flavors are still holding well.

 

Drinking out of a small goblet.
Pours a moderately clear copper color with a thin medium head.
Smells of caramel.
Fine mouth feel.
Malt forward. Nice sweet taste of caramel.

Copenhagen 29/7 2016. 50 cl bottle from Meny, Østerfælled Torv, Kbh. Ø. A lot going on the label with a Founder surrounded by gold medals, the brewery and something that looks like a lump of gold hemorrhaging blood.

Pours hazy dark reddish brown with a white head. Stable. Settles as a patchy thin layer of foam. Moderate lacing.

Intense aroma of banana, oak barrel and alcohol. Hints of citrus.

Strong carbonation and thick creamy palate. Soft, smooth, almost flat texture.

Flavor is medium sweet followed by a light bitterness. A little bit of dark alcohol in the aftertaste - without being boozy.

Very nice, well-balanced and pretty muscular wheat beer.

 

 

 

500mL can pours a cloudy deep ruby reddish-brown with a thin cap of off-white head . Smells of candied fruits, dark malts, fruitcake, molasses, booze, spice, and sweet fruity yeast. Tastes richly of dark and red fruits, juice, spice, slightly funky-fruity yeast, fruitcake, molasses, caramel, and toffee, with an appreciable but not overpowering alcohol flavor. Full-bodied, moderate sweetness, restrained bitterness, smooth, slightly sudsy mouthfeel, mild alcohol heat and flavor, and a long, fruity-boozy-yeasty-sour finish.

This was a very good beer, and I really liked how strong the fruit notes got without bringing an overpowering sweetness. I would definitely consider buying again. Very rich and complex, but I would have to say I still prefer the Vitus weizenbock offering from Weihenstephaner.

S - Dates, chocolate, melon and wheat "twang"
T - Follows nose, rather malty sweet and boozy. Cereal, barley tea and tangy wheat on the finish.

Somehow has less going for it than the smaller version(Mein Original)? Too much tangy wheat and chocolate and not enough grain and ester flavors for my liking. Clove is missing altogether which is odd.

 

 

The 16.9 fluid ounce brown bottle was opened and the entire contents were transferred into a clear glass liter mug. The pour produced plenty of just-off-white foam, but it's not as excessive as many wheat beers. Enduring, the foam rests on top of a solidly dark brown liquid that's not dull, nor bright. At least, when the foam recedes, it does so evenly. This smells much more like a yeasty wheat beer than a typical Doppelbock. It's weird to smell a brown brew that has the astringency and almost metallic character of a wheat beer, instead of the rich sweetness of something with roasted barley malt. This tastes much more like a Belgian beer than a true German Doppelbock. The esters are pronounced to the degree that they dominate the flavor. Unfortunately, there's no counterbalance of sweet malts, nor biting hops to give this some pleasant complexity. Although the body runs thinly, no surprise from a wheat beer, the significant ABV is nicely delivered. There's even some nice glass lacing to enforce the notion that this is a well-crafted brew. But, to truly appreciate this one, loving wheat beers is prerequisite. Do not expect a remarkable hybrid of typical German Doppelbock and Weizen styles, or disappointment will ensure. Overall, it's not bad for a wheat beer, as long as you can tolerate those banana-like esters.

 

 

 

 

Pours a dark, hazy red-brown, with an exceptionally tight and creamy buff head. An immediate hit of molasses and malt on the nose, with a yeasty warmth that brings some wintergreen and mace - also slight tobacco, and apple and blackberry. On the tongue there's a flood of coppery yeast, with orange and cinnamon and a long syrupy finish. The mouthfeel is exquisitely silky, without being overly sticky.

RB transfer

 

Top tier bier.