{"id":47563,"date":"2020-12-24T21:30:05","date_gmt":"2020-12-25T02:30:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=47563"},"modified":"2020-12-24T21:30:05","modified_gmt":"2020-12-25T02:30:05","slug":"advent-beer-24-weizenbock-hell-by-ladenburger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=47563","title":{"rendered":"Advent Beer #24: Weizenbock Hell by Ladenburger"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"And here we are, hours before the clock strikes midnight, bringing on Christmas of the vaunted year of 2020, and I am sipping on the final and 24th<\/sup> beer of the Costco advent calendar.<\/span><\/p>\n

When I pulled this can out of the fridge, my first thought was, WTF another Hell beer?\u00a0 Obviously by now, I can recall that \u201chell\u201d in Deutsch means \u201cbright\u201d and not the devils and pitchforks hell-hell, I\u2019ve had so many hells over the last 24 days.\u00a0 But at the same time, I\u2019m thinking, if this is the last beer in the entire collection, surely it must be good to warrant it being the finale to a beer drinker\u2019s journey, right?<\/span><\/p>\n

Regardless of my general disdain for the seeming lack of originality in putting forth yet another hell bier, and not like another dunkel, I remained hopeful that this would be good, in spite of the fact that all the other hell biers sit uncomfortably at the bottom third of the rankings, due to their general boredom and lack of interesting characteristics.<\/span><\/p>\n

Pouring this bier into my das boot, I\u2019m greeted with both a strong aroma, and the sight of a cloudy, amber bier, both of which bode well for my hopes, as cloudy usually equals flavorful, and if you can smell it, it probably isn\u2019t going to be bland.<\/span><\/p>\n

The first sip is met with a ton of fruity notes and a pretty intense flavor.\u00a0 I\u2019m kind of reminded of a Lonerider Shotgun Betty<\/em>, which is a tremendous compliment in its own right, and it should be reminded that a former #1 in the rankings, the Bearjew Weisse (#16) got that position mostly because of its similarities to Shotgun Betty.\u00a0 So the fact that this also has similarities to the characteristics that makeup Shotgun Betty and Bearjew Weisse means that this has to rate well, right?<\/span><\/p>\n

As I drink this beer, I\u2019m feeling that the fruity notes are a little on the too intense side of things, and there\u2019s a surprising amount of kick at the end.\u00a0 Examining the can, I read that this has an ABV of 7.4%, which I believe makes it the most potent bier in the collection, which I guess kind of explains why this is the one they end on, because it\u2019s the one that\u2019s going to punch the hardest.<\/span><\/p>\n

By slotting Weizenbock Hell into #5, that solidifies the rankings as there are no more beers to go.\u00a0 I liked Weizenbock Hell a good bit, it\u2019s easily the strongest bier to have put into my das boot, but when the day is over, it\u2019s falling beneath a more balanced Shotgun Betty clone (Bearjew), two dunkels (Jubilation Suds and Kirta), and my first (supposed) exposure to a kellierbier (First Coral).\u00a0 Weizenbock is a strong finish to the entire collection, and the fact that it cracked the top-5 at the very end speaks volumes to the quality of this finale.<\/span><\/p>\n

And with that, concludes 24 days of biers from Deutschland.\u00a0 I have enjoyed it, and making it an excuse to carve out a little bit of time each night to write about something I\u2019m most definitely not an expert in, but one of the big takeaways I get from this is that a lot of \u2018Murican beer is about as mediocre in comparison to a mishmash of biers randomly collected from another country, but maybe that can be chalked up to a grass is greener logic.\u00a0 I wonder if whatever country drew \u2018Murican Beer Advent Calendar is as impressed with theirs as I am with Deutschland\u2019s?<\/span><\/p>\n

Current Rankings:<\/span><\/p>\n

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  1. Jubilation Suds (#18)<\/span><\/li>\n
  2. Bearjew Weisse (#16)<\/span><\/li>\n
  3. First Coral (#2)<\/span><\/li>\n
  4. Kirta (#5)<\/span><\/li>\n
  5. Weizenbock Hell (#24)<\/span><\/li>\n
  6. Turbo Prop (#6)<\/span><\/li>\n
  7. Schwarze Tinte (#13)<\/span><\/li>\n
  8. Perlenzauber (#9)<\/span><\/li>\n
  9. Loncium Vienna Style Lager (#12)<\/span><\/li>\n
  10. M\u00e4rzenbier (#20)<\/span><\/li>\n
  11. Jubil\u00e4umsbier 333 (#7)<\/span><\/li>\n
  12. Landgang Pils (#23)<\/span><\/li>\n
  13. Zw\u00f6nitzer Steinbier (#4)<\/span><\/li>\n
  14. Alpen Stoff (#17)<\/span><\/li>\n
  15. Kurpfalz Br\u00e4u Kellerbier (#22)<\/span><\/li>\n
  16. Erl Hell (#19)<\/span><\/li>\n
  17. Grandl (#11)<\/span><\/li>\n
  18. Altbairisch Hell (#15)<\/span><\/li>\n
  19. Hell (#1)<\/span><\/li>\n
  20. Tannen Hell (#8)<\/span><\/li>\n
  21. Perlenzauber IPA (#21)<\/span><\/li>\n
  22. Tradition (#10)<\/span><\/li>\n
  23. Hallertauer Hopfen-Cuvee (#14)<\/span><\/li>\n
  24. K\u00e4uzle (#3)<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    And here we are, hours before the clock strikes midnight, bringing on Christmas of the vaunted year of 2020, and I am sipping on the final and 24th beer of the Costco advent calendar. When I pulled this can out of the fridge, my first thought was, WTF another Hell beer?\u00a0 Obviously by now, I … Continue reading Advent Beer #24: Weizenbock Hell by Ladenburger<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[176,97,100,197],"class_list":["post-47563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brog","tag-murica","tag-booze","tag-comparison","tag-holiday"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47563","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=47563"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47563\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47565,"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47563\/revisions\/47565"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}