Egerer Winterfestbier

Pours a clear, medium copper amber color, with three fingers of puffy, loosely foamy, and sudsy ecru head, which leaves some decent layered tabletop cloud lace around the glass as it slowly and evenly recedes. It smells of grainy, lightly doughy caramel malt, a further toffee sweetness, white crackers, and some soft earthy, leafy, and mildly grassy hop bitterness. The taste is semi-sweet, grainy and bready caramel malt, honeyed crackers, a faint red apple fruitiness, and tamer leafy, weedy, and hay-like noble hop bitters. The carbonation is quite low and hard to really round up an example of its wan frothiness, the body on the light side of an average middleweight, and generally smooth, all that malt just gliding by as if on rails. It finishes well off-dry, that toasted bready and biscuity character showing a hint of true staying power.