Aventinus: 22

Taste: 8 Finish: 8 Visual: 4 Aroma: 2
Total: 22

Aventinus is a bottle fermented, wheat doppelbock from Germany. It has a very faint aroma, bordering on none. The color is a dark and cloudy brown. It has a thin head.

The initial taste is of toasted malt and some chocolate. It tingles on the tongue from carbonation and some spice. It finishes with a mild bitterness and leaves an oily coating on the tongue. A mild "wheat" exhale follows. This is not a creamy beer at all. I'm really surprised that it is relatively mild in flavor. It has a very nice balance between sweetness, chocolate, and bitterness. It's also 8.2% alcohol but you would never know it.

I almost want to say this beer isn't very good because there isn't any boldness to it. For a dark beer, it is very subtle. So, I switch my thoughts and think it is near perfection in execution. I wish it had more aroma to it. You could easily drink 2 of these in an hour and then fall off your chair. Great!