Monchshof Kellerbeir

This week's beer is the Monchshof Kellerbier.  A kellerbier is an unfiltered lager normally brewed for local consumption from casks only. They are also known as Zwick'l beirs.  Read more about them here.

You can see two things from the picture.  1. This kellerbeir didn't come from a keg, it came from a bottle. and 2.  There isn't much head to the beer.  If you clicked on the read more link you would have read that is a charactistic of a kellerbeir.  The color is a deep caramel that is slightly cloudy.  The beer was crisp with a taste of roasted malt, not too overwhelming though.  A very drinkable beer and one that I liked much better than the related Veldensteiner Zwick'l from a few weeks back.  I'll probably add this one to the repeat beer list.

Veldensteiner Zwick'l

Another Beer from Kaiser Brau's Veldensteiner line.  This one didn't make me say wow like a couple of the others I've tried.  The head was soft, foamy, and dissipated quickly.  The body was a cloudy murky caramel color lots of bubbles. My sense of smell is not my strong suit and this one just smells like beer.  It tastes like well roasted almost burnt caramel, slightly sweet.  It finishes with just a hint of bitterness.  Not a bad beer but not my favorite Veldensteiner.

Veldensteiner describes the Zwick'l as amber, unfiltered, and naturally cloudy!  A light and sweet, straight from the bottom fermenting cellar directly from the storage tank and especially valuable with all the extra ingredients still.