3-stars Great Taste Awards
We are thrilled to announce that Schwarz & Weiss has won 3-stars: Exquisite at the Great Taste Awards 2021. Only 2% of entries are awarded 3-stars and Schwarz & Weiss was the only beer to achieve this. This year, as few as 218 products were awarded 3-stars from a total of over 14,000 entries.
Schwarz & Weiss is a traditional Bavarian Dunkelweizen (dark wheat beer). First, you smell the flavours of roasted and oak-smoked barley malts. Then you savour the moderate spicy, fruity, malty, refreshing wheat-based ale. This premium beer reflects the best yeast and wheat character of a Hefeweizen with the malty richness of a Munich Dunkel. The hop bitterness is low.
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Great Taste Award judging comments:
A beautifully complex nose, with cherries and smokiness, coffee and light florals. Perfectly balanced, with a delicious texture. The flavour keeps evolving on the palate bringing forward raisins and cinnamon. The finish is light and very pleasant.
We love the mousse and slightly cloudy appearance, and the nose is enthralling with its medley of smoke, banana, caramel, bread notes. Everything on the nose comes through on the palate and those flavours ebb away nicely to leave an excellent finish. Banana loaf in a glass.
We found that the beer had a very traditional, attractive nose. We thought that the beer reflected the style really well – notes of warm banana bread and spice. The palate was deep and complex with plenty of flavour and warmth.
Pours, darkly and with a spiced nose with lots of softness and a bready body. A well-crafted beer with a smooth malty finish with heaps of fruitcake and cloves. Refreshing.
This is a rich brown coloured beer with a good retained head and a slight haze. Aromas of fig, raisin, and spiced fruit on the nose. Great conditioning. It presents flavours of baked apple and raisin pudding with a strong fruity finish with notes of banana sweetness.
An apt colour, good head and bright effervescence convey notes of sauerkraut and toffee on the nose, toffeed banana on the palate, and a bright, lifted lactic acidity on the finish. Entirely uncloying, despite its rounded sweetness and richness – quite brilliant!
We got the end of the bottle with this on a re-judge so it was quite murky, but we did not mark it down for this. Indeed, despite being the dregs it displayed beautiful aromas of banana, toffee, dried fruits and spices, which carried on into the flavour to join plentiful notes of fruit, spice, chocolate and caramel over a smoky background. We want to be sitting next to a roaring fire in Bavaria when we drink this.
Our founder Uli comments, “Starting a new business and making it profitable is like running a marathon. This fantastic reward gives us the boost we need after a difficult year. We are proud to be producing a quality beer using the finest Suffolk malts. I hope more people will get to taste the delights of our German inspired beers. A big Thank You to our whole team, all the hard work paid off! 3-stars from the Great Taste Awards makes me really proud! Amazing!”