Bohemian's Cherny Bock Schwarzbier In Draft

Draft Magazine's December 2011 issue features our very own Bohemian Brewery's Cherny Bock.

"A dark malt bouquet permeates the fluffy head on this swarthy schwarzbier. Caramel and chocolate sweetly counter a dash of roasted malt sents, while a subtle lactic twang intensifies the aroma. This light-bodied brew spans the tongue with faint roasted malts threaded with caramel sweetness. Quiet, earthy hop bitterness rises before the swallow, and merges with a touch of ash and a lactic bite for an assertively dry finish. Although Cherny Bock could benefit from heftier malts, it's a quaffable beer with the style's classic clean lager swallow."

Rating

82

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New York Loves our Cherny Bock Schwarzbier!

Yeah I know, I got a lot of big-name brewery beers while I was in NYC, so why I am reviewing a lesser-known brewery from Utah? Well, it's Sunday afternoon and I want something to just chill out with that would be a quick and easy to review. Plus I've never had a beer from Utah before, so that sounded like fun to me. I do have something special planned for all of next week, though!

B / 3.68 rDev -7.1%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 4

I poured a 12oz can into a tulip class (because the can actually recommends a tulip for this beer)

Appearance: jet black with hazy ruby red glow on the underside. Forms a two-finger, off-white, soapy head. Retention is decent with minor lacing.

Smell: Lager yeast and slight toasted malts. Fairly sweet-smelling, but for the most part it's unaromatic.

Taste: For such a statistically "small" beer Cherny Bock has a lot of flavor, especially for a lager. Despite the name, this beer is more in the style of a schwarzbier than a bock with light malty sweetness up front and distinct roasted malt on the backend. Seems a bit like a light cola with an almost artificial sweetener taste at the beginning and end, but the can indicates this beer is brewed under the conditions of the Germany Purity Law of 1516.

While not the most robust beer in the world, the roasted malt flavor remains quite strong throughout and finishes mostly clean with a slight biscuity aftertaste.

Mouthfeel: Thin, cold and wet, but not watery per se. Seems noticeably fizzy at first, but carbonation seems to die down quickly. Not quite a light-bodied beer, but on the lower end of medium-bodied.

Drinkability: With a mild, but genuinely flavorful palate combined with easy mouthfeel, Cherny Bock is indeed a sessionable beer at only 4% ABV. It's refreshing while it's in the mouth and goes down extremely smooth. Might be too mild to stand up to a meal, but could be used as a beverage for chips and finger foods or just to session a six-pack while watching the game.

Overall, an impressive beer for what it's able to accomplish. Nothing spectacular in the big scheme of things, though, but will satisfy most beer drinkers.

Oaky & The Bandit Review

That’s because we’ve never done it! Today, I take that 28 hours and boil it down to four or so minutes with my friend Seth from Beer Nation

I apologize for there being no shots of the pour. I only received one bottle of beer, so I couldn’t do the beer porn I usually do. Luckily, the bottle has a lot going on, so I got a bunch of shots of it.

Bohemian brewery does things the old-fashioned way. When I received the beer, I didn’t expect it to be aged in bourbon barrels or whiskey barrels, it’s aged in oak barrels. Oak barrels that were designed to age beer. They’ve never had anything in them before. Just beer. I’m not saying I don’t appreciate beer aged in bourbon barrels (because I totally do), I’m saying that there’s something to be said for tradition.

I don’t know if I talked about the Reinheitsgebot before, but it’s a beer purity law established in 1516 that proclaimed beer must be made from water, barley, and hops. I wonder if anyone openly flaunted the Reinheitsgebot and just called their beer something different. This is probably where naming conventions surrounding malt liquor came from. Conversation probably went something like this:

I’ll hayve thine Olde English eigght hunndred bier, maiden.

Tis not a bier kind sir, tis a malte likker.

Wot wench? Bring me the bier and begone with the silly naymes!

Yes, so if you can imagine what it was like to be alive then, you can imagine having an Oaky and the Bandit. You can only get it in UT, so if you’re friends with someone there, have them send you one!

Just The Facts

Appearance: BLACK
Smell: Coffee, smoke, light malty
Taste: Straight cold, black coffee
Mouthfeel: Medium bodied, mildly carbonated
Drinkability: Seth said “If I closed my eyes, I wouldn’t know it was dark – sessionable.”

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Oaky & The Bandit

Today we bottle, yes, bottle our oak aged black lager. We have been aging this small batch beer for a year sampling it here and there waiting for just the right moment when we felt this beer had the character we were looking for. What makes this beer unique is that it is an aged lager. Typically you don't see this sort of things with lagers. We were trying to recreate what a dark Munich style or Schwarzbier lager aged and cellared in oak would have tasted like a couple hundred years ago. The body remains light since lager yeast was used. The carbonation is fine producing a wonderful head. The oaky notes compliment the coffee malt flavor profiles. Get a bottle while you can. We've limited the production run to 400 22oz bottles sealed in wax and individually numbered. These bottles are available for purchase at our brewery and possibly at a few select locations around town as soon as January 13.

Bohemian Takes Gold for Cherny Bock - Schwarzbier

The North American Brewers Association announced the medal winners of the 2004 North American Beer Awards during the Mountain Brewers Beer Fest in Idaho Falls, Idaho on June 5, 2004.

Hundreds of entries representing breweries from Florida to Alaska, Canada and Mexico, were judged. When the results were decoded and tabulated, Gold, Silver, and Bronze medals were awarded, and for some categories, Honorable Mention.

Category: Munich Style Lagers-- Munich Dark & Schwartzbier