Eaglebrau Weizenbier Dunkel

Review Date 4/9/2016 12/7/2018 Last Updated  By John Staradumsky

  Style: Dunkelweizen   Brewery: Egerer   Country: Germany   State: N/A   $ Per OZ: $.15 (B)   ABV: 5%

For Christmas of 2015, my wife bought me a really cool present: BeerAdvent Calendar 2015 from Kalea. In truth, my wife got me a lot of nice presents (she’s the best wife ever), but the nice thing about the Beer Advent Calendar is you get it early. You have to, since it’s comprised of 24 different imported German beers in a box with little doors that you open, one per day from December 1^st through December 24^th. All of the beers are listed on the side of the carton, however, so be careful not to look and spoil the daily surprises!

I love German beer more than beer from any other country on Earth, so this was definitely right up my alley. My one criticism of the calendar is there are no bocks or doppelbocks (not fair!), but otherwise it’s just an amazing way to sample 24 German beers I’ve never seen before. I got mine a Costco here in Georgia and paid $59.95 for the box. That might sound steep, but when you distribute that price over 24 different half liter cans, it only works out to $2.50 per can. Not a bad deal at all looked at that way.

Day 11  of the German Beer Advent Calendar has arrived and brings with our most mysterious beer to date. I'm talking about Eaglebrau Weizenbier Dunkel, a dark wheat beer brewwed for the Beer Advent Calendar by Privatbrauerei Egerer of Grosskolnbach but lizenziert to them by Die Agentur S.L.

Now, I know I've tasted Egerer beers before but never catalogued them; the beers of Die Agentur are entirely new to me. In fact, I can't find any details of Die Agentur anywhere on the web. Also curious to me is the fact that in German, an Eagle is an Adler; there is an Adler Brau in Schwabia but its not the same brewery. Would one find this beer on the shelve sin Germany under this name? I suspect not.

Be that as it may, Eaglebrau Weizenbier Dunkel has an alcohol content of 5% by volume.

Eagelbrau Weizenbier Dunkel pours to a murky brown color with the roused yeast making it murky and a tall, spritzy but short lived head with a robust banana and clove nose. Taking a sip, the beer has tart crackery wheat followed by nutty cookie malty notes, light cloves and banana and a tart cracker wheat finish. All in all, a solid dunkelweizen with everything I'm looking for in the style. Whorver the beer belongs too.

I’m greatly enjoying my Beer Advent Calendar with the day 11 beer. Here’s looking forward to the remaining 13, and another assortment of 24 in 2016. We’ll be on the lookout next year at Costco, and following the beers on their Facebook page.

The beers of the 2015 Beer Advent Calendar: