Imported from Germany this is a traditional dark beer, it even says on the label "Brewed Naturally According to the German Purity Law!". I question what they mean by brewed naturally, I don't think this is a lambic beer with wild yeasts, but I don't think Warsteiner used any fancy light yeasts. The German Purity Law from April 23rd1516 states that beer can only contain water, hops and barley. It was later changed to mention yeast once it was discovered, but the old brewerys maintained yeast by adding current beer to the next batch.
This beer has a good dark malt smell, it has a earthy note but I don't mean for that to take away from the beer. The color is a dark brown, but filtered so it can still be seem through. There is very little foams and the head goes away right after the pour. The beer is as dark as the bottle is came in.
The beer has a crisp malt taste but no malt sweetness. The dark malts only has a little coffee flavor unlike a stout. There is some hops bitterness and a little hops flavor, but no hop grassyness. The mouth feel is full with some thickness and maybe some hops notes in the tingling tongue taste. This is a good tasty beer, nice and traditional. Not too much complexity but still really tasty.
2 comments:
It's Warsteiner man!
Thank you for the correction. I was thrown by the fancy s and didn't bother to check it. I'll be more careful in the future.
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