Rosengarten Maisgold Spezial Bier

http://www.einsiedlerbier.ch

Brewed by Rosengarten AG
Style: Sweet Corn Beer/Specialty Beer
Einsiedeln, Switzerland

Rosengarten (Rose Garden) is a family run brewery in the small town of Einsiedeln in central Switzerland. The Brewery is going for over a 100 years now and is well known in Switzerland for its specialty beers, most notably its corn beer, its “Maisgold” (corn gold).

The Obermühle Steinen mill wanted a beer to celebrate its anniversary, so they approached Wäfler, a Lucerne based brewery, with the idea of producing a beer made from corn, as a gift to its customers. Unfortunately, over time, the brewery went bankrupt and so was the end of the special beer. But there was a clamour from the public who had got found of this unique beer. So a new brewery was needed to continue this production. Not least the beer was a financial hit for the mill too! In 1978, the Rosengarten brewery was asked if they would be prepared to produce a specialty beer with the maize from the Obermühle Steinen, and they agreed, and so in 1980 , the brewery launched the Maisgold.

It is by no means their only type of beer that they produce, as they also make lagers, wheat beers, and bocks, but it is their Maisgold that is their number one seller and what they are widely known for.

Review: 33cl bottle of Rosengarten Maisgold Spezial Biere: 5% vol.

The beer is brewed with a share of about 30% corn from the Bruhin mill and from the Linthebene, barley malt and hops. The corn causes it to be tasty, light and rather sweetish.

Intriguing beer, never seen a sweetcorn beer on offer before so just had to buy it. Nice logo of a sweetcorn, making no doubt to whats the major ingredient here.

On pour we get a golden colour with a very disappointing white head. No head at all really, very slight, overall a very flat look. Doesn’t look great at all.

Get a good whiff of barley malts in the smell, also it is quite wheaty and with corn on the nose. Smells like a regular lager. Not a bad aroma.

Initial taste is that its a very light beer, with a lot of malt.

Can taste the sweet corn for sure, it is there! It is very sweet and inoffensive, nothing to get too excited about either way. A strong taste of cereal and grains too, which wasn’t pleasant.

The hops came to prominence after a while, and I found them a little too intense and not particularly nice to drink. Bit of an “urgh” aftertaste.

Overall I thought this beer was rather bland and nothing special, with or without the corn, big deal. Boring.