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It
was no
surprise then
to
find the supermarkets selling a new weizenbock
from AB-InBev, namely Franziskaner Royal Jahrgangsweissbier, or
Annual Vintage Weissbier. Just to confuse things, it was
labelled “Edition 2” - they also brewed a Royal
Jahrgangsweissbier in 2011, but that one was a 5% blond hefeweizen and carried no edition number.
Presumably the marketing guys failed to imagine that the brewers
might want to do – shock, horror! - something different for next
year.
A
bit of fun ensued
on
Untappd, as
I and a couple of others tried
to unravel the strands in
the support forum.
Somehow the site had acquired three separate listings for Royal
Jahrgangsweissbier – 2011, 2012 and Edition 2 – and to make it
worse, each of them also had at least one rating for the 'other'
version, put in by confused (or careless) drinkers.
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So
what are they like? To be honest, the first edition is fairly
run-of-the-mill. Yes, it's a good Kristalweiss, but there is not a
lot to mark it out from other good Kristals – and there's certainly
nothing Royal about it.
The
second edition is a different kettle of fish. Gone is the megabrewer
mundanity and in is a spicy and tangy dark Weizenbock, somewhere
between an amber and a dunkel. It certainly has a bit more character
than the average Dunkelweiss – worth a try, I'd say.
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