Braumanufaktur - Werdersches

An interlude from the seasonal beer, this one a new one to me from the all organic Braumanufaktur range which I have sampled a few of. This one styled a keller bier……..

Very light aroma of malt, some toastyness and butter toffee from the pour.

Werdersches pours cloudy amber brown with a creamy white head. Quite a sweet (medium) malty intake with butterscotch or diacetyl which ever way you want to judge it along with some fruit and yeasty notes while the finish ends slightly sour with no bitterness to speak of. Short aftertaste of malt and more of the yeasty sourness. Very soft carbonation and the mouthfeel is silky smooth and creamy.

I enjoyed this one, easy to drink and not a whole lot going on to make you think too much. You could say boring but I would rather say simplistic. The constant through their range I have tried is that buttery note, or diacetyl which I don't mind most of the time while some people hate it. I would have no problems buying and sinking a few more though there are far better options of this style out there. Summing up, easy drinkable kellerbier, not the best and not the worst. Average.

This scored 4/10 on the 'the smugness on my face with 5 weeks off is unbearable to many' Beerometer.

Alc : 4.8%
Where to buy CPH : Kihoskh, Sønder Boulevard 53, Kbh V
Web : Braumanufaktur (german only apart from the dining menu)

Braumanufaktur x 2 - Hell & Potsdamer Stange

After the last two blog posts perhaps a simple and straightforward post concerning the beer in question is in order ? These are always in the beer cooler at my favourite, if you have not guessed by now, local corner shop.

Braumanufaktur brew only organic beer. I have a problem with organic beer, or raw organic food stuffs in general but I'll leave that mighty rant to a later date, today is about beer only...

Hell

Hell comes in a swing top like all their other beers and pours a slightly hazy dark yellow to gold with a white head. Mildly sweet on the intake with malt, caramel and butter. The finish is very mild bitter hops and grass. Nothing much in the aftertaste apart from a tiny bit of hop bitterness.

Middle of the road helles/pils with no great surprises and no huge complaints either. My main gripe is I have drunk this fresh and it is a lot better, well that is not a great surprise really. Another that I'd not buy again but would not say no to one if offered. If the opportunity came up to try it fresh again then 'Yes please'.

Quite an average run of the mill brew and scored 3.5/10 on the 'organic does not always equal great' Beerometer.


Alc :4.8%
Where to buy CPH : Kihoskh, Sønder Boulevard 53, Kbh V

Potsdamer Stange

Like the Hell above this is an organic, no aroma worth mentioning on the pour above though there is a very faint aroma of yeast and a light buttery malt from this.

Potsdamer Stange pour a cloudy yellow to orange with a big thick creamy white head. Malt, wheat and and that buttery taste on the moderately sweet intake while the finish is mildly bitter and dry. In the aftertaste a fruity syrup and again that faint taste of butter. Nice and smooth mouthfeel with this.

Quite an unusual tasting beer though the diacetyl is perhaps a bit too much. Neither great not bad I quite enjoyed it as it is very easy drinking. I have bought it a few times now and my main gripe with it would be the diacetyl butter taste seems to vary from batch to batch though maybe that is just my imagination. Sometimes you notice it more, sometimes less.

This scored 4/10 on the 'I can't believe that's not...'Beerometer.

Alc : 4.8%
Where to buy CPH : Kihoskh, Sønder Boulevard 53, Kbh V

Vestfyen - Premium Kellerpils

Vestfyen are most known nowadays for brewing all the cheap crap available at discount supermarkets like Aldi, Kiwi and Lidl.

I have to admit I absolutely hate Vestfyen beer, well it is not to hard to hate as most* of it is so bad you might as well buy it to clean your drains with. My last outing with them was their Støckel series, the Weissbier being so bad I thought the can was bad/off so bought another to try it again...ohhh no, it really was meant to taste like industrial drain cleaner.

*Exceptions for me being their Schwarzbier and normally the Willemoes christmas.

So while out shopping today the self-masochist in me being curious I picked up the three of their new 'Premium' range which consists of Kellerpils, Cream Ale and Chocolate Brown for the lowly discount sum of 8 DKR each. If the Kellerpils does not end up in the drain I will blog about the other two at another time, very low expectations here eh ?

If anything, it's claim to fame can be it is the first canned beer to feature on this blog.

Kellerpils pours an unfiltered cloudy straw gold with a quick diminishing white soapy bubble head.  Citrus, peach and hops on the intake with a short mildly bitter finish. In the short aftertaste there is some mild floral hops. Mouthfeel is quite good and not as watery as I thought it would turn out to be.

Quite a surprise this one and a lot better than I expected ! Perhaps it helps when starting off with really really low expectations. At this price it is hard to gripe though I do have one..the beer is totally lifeless in the glass not long after pouring. I would have no problems buying this again, cheapskate that I am.

This one scored 7/10 on my 'VFM - value for money' Beerometer.

Alc : 4.8%
Where to buy CPH : Kiwi

Bayreuther - Aktien Zwick'l Kellerbier

This one is another I picked up at last weeks trip out to Fish & Beer last week.

I have a soft spot for swing top bottles, so classy and old fashioned looking. They still bring back memories of nutter trendies using the Grolsh swing tops in their shoes copying the utter dross Bros. Probably the only reason why Grolsh became so popular.

So this beer pours cloudy amber with a small lasting white head. Sweet malt and caramel dominate on the intake leaving more caramel, a bit of lemon and a light bitterness in the aftertaste. Feels a bit watery in the mouthfeel.

All in all,  this is very average, not one I'd bother with again. It scaled 5/10 on the beerometer.

Alc : 5.3%
Where to buy : Fish & Beer

Bryggerigaarden - Kælder Bryg

After a public holiday yesterday it was back to work today, at least it is now a short working week. Big weekend coming up with the Copenhagen Beer Festival....

The last in the series is a keller bier, which once again is a style you don't see a lot of by unless by micro's or imported German.

This beer pours a pale yellow with a big lasting white head. Mildly malty, a bit of caramel and almost a sweet honey like taste then finishing lightly bitter. Nice almost creamy mouthfeel. It climbed to 5.5/10 on my internal beerometer though that might be due to the circumstances that I found it very refreshing with the sun beating down.

 Definitely one I could drink again though if blindfolded I doubt I could tell the difference between this and Braumanufaktur Potsdamer Stange, which is always available from the very good for interesting beers corner shop Kihoskh on Sønder Boulevard.

Alc : 5%
Bought in : Føtex, Vesterbrogade