Tonight I had the opportunity to try a Reutberg Aegidus-Trunk Kellerbier. It's a seasonal beer from one of my absolute favourite breweries. It's not one of the top-modern experimental craft-brews that has turned increasingly popular during the last decades. This is rather the ultra traditional type of brewery, upholding the 350 year old traditions of the bavarian monestrary-brewcraft. That's half of the charm, but when it comes down to the liquid in the glass it's also downright top quality!
Aegidus-Trunk Kellerbier is a non filtered beer with 5,3 % abv. The colour is medium intense amber and slightly cloudy, with a nice off white head. The nose is malty and full with dried fruits, but not as intense as stronger beers usually possessing the same characteristics. The taste is at first intensely malty and medium sweet with a very low bitterness. Short after there is a full taste of, burned sugar, dried apricots, fudge and sweet rye-bread. In the after taste there is a little bitterness far back in the mouth and the bitter sensation has some similarities with that in coffee.
Over all it's a very good beer offering a little less alcoholic alternative to many of those beers that suit well with the autumn inspired stews. I could also see a potential good match with forest mushrooms! I rate this old-style october-fest beer 7,5/10.
The beer is named after the festivities in honour of the greek Saint Giles (originally Aegidius) who was made saint of the crippled. The story says that he was living as a hermit deep in the forest only in the company of a hind that actually fed him with her milk. He was eventually mistakenly shot by an arrow aimed at the deer.
Reutberg is situated just outside Bad-Tölz in Bavaria and the beer-garden is a must when visiting the area!
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Lucas Spinnars
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