Beer: The cause of, and solution to, all of life’s problems.

Landbier – beer of the…. land.

This Austrian “session” beer (sort of like the beer equivalent of a house wine) is supposed to be low in hops, malty, low to moderately alcoholic and very drinkable.  Kapsreiter Landbier was a veritable malt monster.

Here’s what I thought:

- Aroma – very strong, smelled like barley tea, or grain being mashed

- Tasted like it should have been sweet like unfermented beer, but it was actually quite dry

- Slightly bitter, with little to no discernible hop character

- Pretty substantial amount of body.  Light in color, but heavy with malt character

This was a strange beer indeed, I’m not sure I would buy it again, but it’s definitely worth a shot if you want to know what malt tastes like!

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