Us Heit Buorren Bier
30cl brown bottle, filtered. BB 06/06. Served cool in a slim goblet. A: pours a dark caramely and dark reddish colour--beautiful~~ the off-white beer head dissipates quite fast, on top of a constant and gently bubbly body. S: intriguing nose... strawberry-jam, vanilla, richly toffeeish, caramel malts+malt syrup, sour-sweet licorice-smoked prunes (a Taiwanese delicacy)... Slightly too sweet for me, but the overall nose truly is distinctive. T: very interesting flavour mixing corn-syrup, ripe fig/fig jam, root-vegetable flavour like boiled potatos, and an underlying aftertaste of the afore-mentioned prunes... weak hoppyness behind with a touch of bitterness, but a licorice and mixed herbal bitter-sweetness lingers in the finish. This beer really reminds me a lot of Taiwanese high-mountain tea infused with a licorice-smoked prune--lovely faintly sour+bitter-sweet and herbal-ish lingering aftertaste rounds off the palate smoothly~~ M&D: creamy smooth texture and very balanced body; the drinkability is good due to its unusual taste, but I really struggle to categorise this beer. Maybe somebody who will have tried it could shed some lights on this?