Weihenstephaner Korbinian - Bayerische Staatsbrauerei Weihenstephan

PapaEugene

Netherlands

3.58/5  rDev -15%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.5

The only german bock beer of the beer tasting evening with rvdoorn. It was in the MITRA shop amongst a huge selection of Dutch bock beers.

A: Dark-brown/ruby color with a bubbly light brown head.

S: Roasted malts, caramel, yeast and... cabbage and a hint of soy sauce.

T: Roasted malts, caramel and dark fruits. Again that soy sauce association. Slightly bitter and herbal.

M: Medium body, Low carbonation and creamy mouthfeel.

D: A good beer that would have been much better without the soy sauce flavor.

Serving type: bottle

10-15-2009 20:09:43 | More by PapaEugene

DCH

New York

4.25/5  rDev +1%

06-19-2013 00:41:59 | More by DCH

nmatch

4.5/5  rDev +6.9%

06-18-2013 15:17:39 | More by nmatch

adityashekhar

India

4.5/5  rDev +6.9%

06-16-2013 14:38:40 | More by adityashekhar

IchLiebeBier

Virginia

3.5/5  rDev -16.9%

06-15-2013 15:18:57 | More by IchLiebeBier

moistnugget

Florida

4.13/5  rDev -1.9%
look: 3.75 | smell: 4 | taste: 4.25 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4

Food Pairings: Lay's Dill Pickle Potato Chips

When to drink: When watching Wil Wheaton levitate a sofa in the worst episode of STTNG

---APPEARANCE---
Severus Snape is dressed up like the Pope and throwing a peace sign on the label. Also, there is a pack bear. That's fucking awesome. Let's pour this bitch.

Holy shit, is Tasha Yar gonna lez out with Troi? Also, Wil Wheaton just showed his mom his widened and strengthened beam. Cool. Korbinian pours a caramel/ ruby color with a small, milky head and minimal lacing. Transmits little light. Looks pretty nice, time to drink!

---SMELL---
Forgot about smell. Looks like Data is getting busy. This episode is fucked up. Sweet plum nose. Something else there, I can't really identify it. Like sub-roastiness.

---TASTE---
Deanna is feeling the horniness (spelling?) of dozens of people, Geordi is still blind, and Wil Wheaton is still a bitch. And, oddly enough, dill pickle chips and this particular beer don't blend at all, but I'm getting a caramel/ toffee note up front, dark fruit, sweetness, not sugary sweet but not brown sugary, either.

---MOUTHFEEL---
Full bodied. Like Dr. Crusher. What's up with Picard's weird laugh?

Anyway, full and creamy, stout-like.

---OVERALL---
Overall, I would say that this episode was really fucking stupid. Like, really stupid. Just awful. And Tasha was a bitch at the end. I'm glad I never saw this before. The dopplebock however, was quite good, as I would expect from Weihenstephaner. The price on these things continues to amaze me, so this beer will continue to be in my rotation.

Serving type: bottle

06-15-2013 04:51:51 | More by moistnugget

TheBeerAlmanac

Kentucky

4/5  rDev -5%

06-14-2013 00:08:08 | More by TheBeerAlmanac

LooseMoose1978

North Carolina

4.5/5  rDev +6.9%

06-12-2013 22:44:50 | More by LooseMoose1978

JSchock7

Kansas

4.25/5  rDev +1%

06-12-2013 06:47:41 | More by JSchock7

Paccamacca

California

4.25/5  rDev +1%

06-12-2013 01:05:49 | More by Paccamacca

kbrown

Ohio

4.25/5  rDev +1%

06-12-2013 00:42:49 | More by kbrown

JamesStreet

Louisiana

4.25/5  rDev +1%

06-11-2013 16:45:00 | More by JamesStreet

tectactoe

Michigan

3.83/5  rDev -9%
look: 4.25 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 3.75 | overall: 3.75

Time to see how Weihenstephaner handles doppelbocks. If it's anything like the rest of their beers, it'll end up being a benchmark for the style. Korbinian looks brown as it pours from the bottle, but appears pitch black sitting in my glass. The light-tan colored head slowly fades to a swampy and bubbly skin that barely covers the black-hole brew. Even holding it a few feet from a light bulb only produces a faint ruby color that shimmers through.

Really malty and sweet up front in the aroma, and even from the first sniff, I can tell that this is going to be a complex and layered brew. Cocoa powder, light caramel, sticky molasses, with hints of some darker, brown-sugar coated fruits like dates, plums, and bruised raisins. A kiss of smoke in the finale tops off a perplexing and interesting aromatic profile; definitely robust and full-bodied.

As eyebrow-raising as the aroma was, you'll be glad to know that the flavor follows it along quite nicely. And also like the aroma, the taste is strong, pungent, and robust. Sweet out of the gate, some caramel, toffee, and brown sugar with some deeper hints of burnt molasses. Some more sweetness piles on in the form of anise and black licorice - something I don't exactly love, but it works well enough in small amounts among the myriad of flavors happening right now.

Plums, dates, and sugar-coated raisins hit mid-to-end with dark, "just-shy-of-roasted" malts, hefty cocoa powder, and a bit of complex nuttiness and woodsy flavors in the finish. Matching the flavor profile, the body is a touch sticky and oily, medium in size with decent carbonation and a mouth feel that falls just short of creamy.

Korbinian is certainly an interestingly complex brew with aroma and flavor profiles that are both "all over the place" and "perfectly content" all at once. Doppelbocks aren't my forte and I certainly haven't had enough to speak eloquently on them, but Korbinian is a pretty taste brew, although maybe not the best doppelbock I've had. Still worth a shot, though, and at the price, you can't really lose.

Serving type: bottle

06-10-2013 11:32:29 | More by tectactoe

timontheroad

Colorado

4/5  rDev -5%

06-10-2013 02:02:14 | More by timontheroad

SpongeRuiner

Michigan

3.5/5  rDev -16.9%

06-10-2013 01:40:03 | More by SpongeRuiner

MacStinson

Michigan

5/5  rDev +18.8%

06-09-2013 05:07:45 | More by MacStinson

Liquoric3

Germany

4.25/5  rDev +1%

06-09-2013 00:47:55 | More by Liquoric3

JohnnyHopps

Indiana

3.86/5  rDev -8.3%
look: 4 | smell: 3.75 | taste: 3.75 | feel: 4.25 | overall: 4

Having become a big fan of doppelbocks, I found myself a little let down by this one. Weihenstephaner makes some fabulous beers, but this does not reach the heights of the others.

The beer was poured from the bottle into a mini-snifter glass, producing a color that was a brownish tinted black color. The aroma was malty with some grapey wine characteristics about the aroma. My initial impression of the taste was that it was too mild. It was malty, but too mild. The carbonation was modest enough to allow that taste to linger, but there was little to linger. The sides of the tongue are made away of a slight tart hop taste, but it is well masked. The texture of a doppelbock is pretty spot on, but the flavor is lacking. While this may be more true to the original version of the style, it does not stack up well against the modern version.

Serving type: bottle

06-08-2013 02:10:58 | More by JohnnyHopps

coolandy007

Nevada

4.5/5  rDev +6.9%

06-06-2013 10:54:56 | More by coolandy007

swimnadd

California

4/5  rDev -5%

06-06-2013 06:32:59 | More by swimnadd

TKEbeerman

Florida

4.25/5  rDev +1%

06-04-2013 00:08:04 | More by TKEbeerman

Isotope

Texas

4.75/5  rDev +12.8%

06-03-2013 01:44:45 | More by Isotope

haknort

Illinois

4.5/5  rDev +6.9%

06-02-2013 02:02:24 | More by haknort

Danobold

Texas

4.25/5  rDev +1%

06-02-2013 02:00:03 | More by Danobold

J_Dub

Texas

4/5  rDev -5%

06-02-2013 01:41:29 | More by J_Dub