Beer of the Week: Andechs Weissbier Dunkel

Beer score: 7.1

Company: Andechs
ABV: 5.0
IBU: 14.5

Straight from a monastery in Germany, this beer has as strong, complex smell to it as it pours, reminding my nose of chocolate, roasted nuts, bananas, and further slightly fruity accents.

It pours a heavy brown color with hints of red here and there.

While tasting, the flavors are just as strong as they were in the smelling, with roasted malts and dark chocolate taking up the majority of the taste. There are also hints of bread, spice, and clove.

This beer has a strong, fizzy sweetness that's too complex for the lesser experienced beer drinkers, and it has a slight tea-like texture that's quite unusual for a beer.

Oddly, this beer does a lot of things I normally wouldn't care for, but here it's all combined to work quite well.