Hermannator Ice Bock
Vancouver Island Brewing in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada 🇨🇦
Bock - Eisbock Regular|
Score
7.09
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Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7.5
473ml can. Pours a clear dark brown with red hue and a small, creamy, long lasting, tan head that laces nicely. Sweet aroma of bready caramel malt, plum, raisin, prune and dark chocolate. Sweet flavour of bready caramel malt, raisin, prune, date and brown sugar in a dry, mild bitter, warming booze finish. Full body with a sticky, oily texture and soft carbonation. More like an Imperial Porter, but still pretty tasty.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Malty with some barrel notes. Deep dark brown with a small beige head. Dark sweet malty notes and a reasonable finish.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
Bottle at bow bar.. thanks to Clare and her husband... Dark black... Thin tan lacing.. Soft sweet caramel woody toffee fruit malt nose..
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7.5
Draft - Nice dark cocoa notes. Dark murky brown with a small white head. Dark toffee malts, cocoa and a light roasty smooth finish. Not sure the barrel adds much more.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Okay dark beige head and black body (ooh, baby!). Creamy coffee, bailey’s latte, chcolate cake with a subtle and sophisticated touch on the aroma. Flavour is this heavy oily licorice and chocolate syrup, bold and rough, great for sipping. Bit of a wine chocolate liqueur finish. Well done and memorable.
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 7
Bottle. Thanks to Ferris and vertbaconstrips. Pours copper brown with off white head. Nose and taste of chocolate, caramel, toasted bread, nuts, coffee and roast. Medium body.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 8 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 8
Bottle - Vintage 2006 - Intense raisin, dark sugars and booze. Jet mahogany with a minimal white head ring. Molasses, raisin and booze with a chocolate and dark fruit finish. Surprising that the booze although present doesn’t burn at all. This is a great beer. Vintage 2008 - Much sweeter than 2006, more candied sugar and an almost cherry like nose. Same look with a brown fuller head that dissipates but does retain much longer. Starts almost sour cherry and the booze follows. This bottle has either gone bad or this batch couldn’t stand up to the age.
Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7
Bouteille 341ml, courtoisie d’un contact de Victoria, BC. De couleur brune-rouge et claire. Nez fruité (prune, léger de raisins et de cerises noires), malté de caramel toffee aux notes rôties avec des effluves d’alcool, de chocolat et de réglisse noire. Moyennement ronde en bouche avec un pétillement léger ainsi qu’une texture aux notes sirupeuses. Goût fruité (raisins, notes de prunes) avec des notes de réglisse noire lors de l’entrée en bouche suivi d’un goût de caramel toffee sucré, légèrement rôti et aux notes brûlées avec des traces de mélasse terreuses puis en finale l’on retrouve une chaleur d’alcool qui dégage des notes vineuses avec de faibles traces de chocolat noir. Post-goût moyen-long, légèrement amer de rôti très doux et d’alcool avec des notes fruitées(prunes et raisins).
Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 8 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 8
Yellow-brown head, alive for 30 secs, over deeper-intensity-of-cola beer. Dark, bitter chocolate almighty in a nose with some serious aromatic hop & alcohol-backing. Later fuselalcohols come streaming from the glass, sweet and powerful. Impressive nose, but warming up, it gets a slightly lesser molasses streak. Sweet, alcohol, fusels, dark chocolate with a rather outspoken liquorice finish. Some vanilla-wood. Definitely some brandy- or rumlike characteristics, but it just isn’t viscous enough for being called brandy-like. Absolutely surprisingly "light" MF for such a beer, in the sense that it is neither oily, viscous or syrupy, but still carbonated-beery. If the idea was making an easy-drinking Eisbock (isn’t that a contradictio-in-terminis?), this deserves 19/20 at least. If not, it’s difficultly assessable, but it’s certainly remarkable. Thanks, joss, again I don’t know how you managed this one, but all the better!