Schwaben Bräu Zwickl Kellerbier

Schwaben Bräu Zwickl Naturtrübes Kellerbier

https://www.schwabenbraeu.de/

Brewed by Dinkelacker-Schwaben Bräu Stuttgart
Style: Zwickelbier/Kellerbier
Stuttgart, Baden-Württemberg, Germany

In 1996, two well established breweries from the city of Stuttgart in South West Germany, came together. Dinkelacker and Schwaben Braeu merged to become The Dinkelacker-Schwaben Brau GmbH & Co. KG, a super brewery ready to take on the world…………..Then Brewing giants InBev came along in 2004 and bought the whole operation!

But before you despair, in 2007, Wolfgang Dinkelacker, the great-grandson of company founder Carl Dinkelacker, buys Dinkelacker-Schwaben Bräu back from Inbev making the company return into family hands and be an independent brewery once again.

Schwaben Bräu was the first beer in Germany to be delivered motorized, with a truck from Gottlieb Daimler, the pioneers of internal-combustion engines and automobile development.

For the football nut (like me), Dinkelacker was from 1982 to 1986 the main sponsor of German football team VfB Stuttgart.

Review: 0,5l flip top brown bottle of Schwaben Bräu Zwickl Kellerbier: 5.6% vol.

Got from a German supermarket, a four pack, coming in a very cool looking logo of a brewer and his beer, happy with his accomplishment! An unfiltered traditional cloudy beer.

Have to say it looks absolutely fantastic on pour, a very lovely frothy white head appearing with a beer that has a gorgeous golden colour with a deep look.

A very decent head that sticks around, some good lacing, and with the deep hazy orange look, we have a great looking beer to admire.

On the nose one gets a very, very malty aroma, very clear and easy to find. An ok malty and yeasty smell, not bad at all.

On to the taste, very soft and creamy on the tongue initially, crispy and inoffensive, not much flavouring to taste and very, very smooth. Light and not really hitting the spot.

A lot of malts and some light grains, as expected, and a bit of fruit, but very light and very boring. Kind of a waste of time, with nothing really to get stuck into in terms of prominent or excitable tastes or flavours, dont think I will be buying this one again.

A pretentious beer with nice packaging that tastes like cheap supermarket fare, disappointing, was expecting much more.