[1] Review by Phil B from Gatineau, Canada who has tried this beer once. (5/8/2007 2:27:33 PM)
"Bottle courtesy of CBA: Poured a deep slightly cloudy amber color vienna with a good size head with great retention. Aroma of malt with a weird hint of peat/smoke and some light hops. Taste is a mix between some peat malt and some lightly sweet malt. Overall taste was drier then expected and that smoke/peat taste was going from gods knows where since I am sure there is no smoke malt in there. Overall, this was a weird experience but still rewarding and definitely not what I was expecting."
Aroma:
7/10
Appearance:
7/10
Mouthfeel:
7/10
Flavor:
7/10
Overall:
7/10
Final Rating, by Style:
(3.5)
Sampled: Bottle
Value of this beer for its style: Not Sure
[2] Review by pootz from between Calgary and Waterloo, Canada who has tried this beer a couple times. (4/17/2007 9:12:16 PM)
"I can’t believe I never sampled this before.
This is probably one of 2 ( and the best) examples of this elusive lager style in Canada.
If Buswakker was down the street from me I’d rent out a back room there, move a cot in and stay there until the supply of this Austrian elixer was gone.
Bottle:
Pours a deep copper lager in the glass with a decent 3 finger cap that stays and laces.
Aromas right to BJCP style guidlines...toasty malts, light sweetness herbal Hersbrucker hopping. sits in the background....excellent!!
Up front you get a long chew on toasty real Vienna malts, the proper noble hopping rides just beneath radar in the background as a good Vienna should ( this is a showcase for the malter’s art)...mid palate the malt complexities mount; bundt cake, cinnamon toast, muffin dough...all with a wonderful woody-earthy-herbal tingle from the Hersbrucker-Tettnang-Hallertau hop infusion that riudes just out of radar range....Finish is soft, decadent and malt accented with the hops offering a subtle drying.
Wunderbar!
A perfect Vienna ; malt accented, soft, elegant maltiness that dries out in the finish to avoid becoming sweet.
"
Aroma:
9/10
Appearance:
8/10
Mouthfeel:
7/10
Flavor:
10/10
Overall:
9/10
Final Rating, by Style:
(4.3)
Sampled: Bottle Sample Size: 650ml @ $3.97 Unit Cost: $2.89 per Pint
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(3.5)
