Local Option Blood ov the Kings
At the peak of summer 1631 King Gustavus Adolphus led thousands of Swedish troops into Northern Germany. Following the destruction and subsequent plundering of Brandenburg Adolphus’ army marched through the endless wheat fields en route to Bavaria. Brewed with copious amounts of red wheat, Blood ov the Kings is aromatically driven by bread, biscuit and notes of exotic fruit. Hazy and medium bodied the beer has a rich and creamy mouth feel with a dry, bitter, and slightly sweet finish. Unbound by the Reinheitsgebot Blood ov the Kings would certainly have been the vital fluid of victory for the Swedish monarch as he spilled blood across the wheat fields of Northern Europe.
3.3
167 reviews
Chicago, United States
Community reviews
Pours amber, quite dark, tan head with sticky lacing. Aroma is doughy bread, a little hoppy citrus, wheat, cracker malt. Taste is floral hops, solidly bitter, some caramel notes and citrus. This is a pretty good Indian Pale Wheat. I like it.
Brownish red. Nose of deep toasted malt and sweet fruit with herbal hops. Flavor is more toasted biscuity malt with herbal woody hops. Hints of dark fruit. A little muddy, but good.
500 ml bottle.
Deep amber, clear body.
Flavor: moderately strong for style; good balance; malt forward. Hops come out in the finish and aftertaste. Fine bitter sweet balance.
Amber color with a relatively thick white head. Aroma is slightly sweet malt with some toasted caramel. Flavor is very malty with a little bitterness in the finish. A touch astringent, but fairly solid.
Luminous honeyed amber red with an ok head. Fruit punch and wheat aroma with a touch grains mixed in. The body is rather harsh on the palate--rotten fruit, and spoilt tasting. Pretty foul.
Clear amber with an uncomfortable amount of sizable black floaties, under a sticky foamy off white head. Aroma has some wheat, Amber malts, and something vaguely fruity. The flavor is quite earthy with a touch of smokiness, rich Amber malts, balancing earthy bitterness, and a whisper of a copperish twang. Doesn’t really come together all that well until the amber-caramelly earthy finish.
Eh.
This bottled brew from a bottle shop poured a very large sized head of foamy finely sized off-white colored bubbles that were very long lasting and left behind a softly carbonated light red brown colored body and a thick foamy lacing. The mild aroma was malty. The bubbly crisp mouth feel was weakly tingly at the start mediumly tingly at the finish with a lingering Irish red malt aftertaste. The nice flavor contained notes of mild rye mild hops and Irish red malt. A decent one that I would consider drinking again.
Cool beer. Dark orange brown color...strange for a wheat beer. Floral and fruity nose almost IPA like. Taste is more caramel, dark fruit, and spice. Very dry finish with a sweet touch. Pretty good stuff
Ruddy brown pour, off-white head. Aroma of citrus, caramel and tangerine. Flavor is floral, citrus, caramel and wheat. A bit thin.
Bouteille de 500 ml achetée chez Hunger Mountain Coop (Montpelier, VT) au coût de 5,60$. Arôme: Légère odeur d’agrumes avec une pointe de levure. Apparence: La couleur est ambrée voilée. Présence d’un mince col mousseux et d’une fine dentelle sur le verre. Saveur: Goût d’agrumes avec une pointe de caramel et de poivre. Durée moyenne de l’arrière goût. Palette: Le corps est moyen avec une texture légèrement onctueuse. Moyenne effervescence en bouche. Légère présence de blé en arrière goût. (Rating #6325)
Bottle pours a hazy amber/brown with a large light khaki head. Sweet caramel aroma with scotch tape hops. Taste has a pleasent hope spice and bitterness with dry caramel malt and a slight wheat presence. Ok.
On tap at City Beer.
Hazy amber with a white head. Aroma and taste of light orange, yeast, citrus, malt and some caramel. Also some weak notes of wheat. Drinkable but nothing special.
Pours unclear orange, small white head . Smell is full , dry , bitter . Bit yeasty , some fruity tones . Taste is coockiedough , bitter , dry , very full on the coockie side ( malts ) . Aftertaste is like a bitter coockie as well. Lovely beer
500ml bottle @El Lúpulo Feroz, Oviedo. 14-09-2014.
Shared with Zita and Hansen.
Pours hazy golden with some white head. Some berries and fruity aromas. Medium body, high carbonation, crispy texture. Taste is slightly bitter, fruity, light, refreshing. Ends dry. Some weird sweet notes.
bottle. hazy dark gold with a medium sized, creamy white head. dusty aroma. foamy mouthfeel and medium bodied. effervescent. bitter. weird flavors of cocoa, dust, grass. desert dry. almost like some wild yeast got in here.
As someone who grew up at Gustavus Adolphus college, I saw this cool label on a 500 ml bottle and just had to try it. Pours a hazy dark orange with a medium, lasting off-white head that leaves good lacing. Aroma has tropical fruit, citrus, and biscuits. Taste is slightly bitter and spicy, with both fruity and malty sweetness in the middle, and some wheat in the dry finish. Body is medium with lively carbonation. This is a complex and big beer, which satisfies more as it goes on and warms up.
(draft @ Local Option - Chicago, IL) Hazy orange with a fizzy white head. Dry wheat and light fruit aroma with a hint of spice and yeast. Flavor start off with a dry wheat note, almost like a milder version of Gumballhead, with a spicy and very dry finish.
(Local Option Blood ov the Kings) Bottle 500 ml at home, served into an english pint glass, ABV 6%
Dark orange colour on the body ans slightly hazy, with two fingers of thick, off-white head on top. Very good retention.
Aroma is very fruity, very hoppy too. Some wheat on the back but mostly covered by the fruity aromas. Cookie dough too, light grains, citrus.
Great taste! Again lots of fruits, biscuits, light grains and faint nuts, light chocolate even, marzipan, cocoa, something that brings red peppers to mind without being spicy.
Medium body, good carbonation, nice dryness on the palate.
Very good, at first seems like an average one but it ends up great,one of the few that I notice so much difference between aroma and flavours.
500 ml bottle from BOTW (Rochester), served at cellar temperature in a tulip glass.
App.: Deep copper with large yeast flecks and a full orange-light tan head.
Aroma: Rich caramel maltiness, a bit grainy and mashy/brothy, a little berry-like fruitiness, a bit of resinous/pine hops, gets peppery later on.
Palate: Medium+ body and full carbonation.
Flav.: Quite dank and peppery with a very rich malty backbone, drier than expected for this much malt, phenolic; dry with decent bitterness and a long, fairly peppery/dank finish.
A helluva “Wheat Ale”. Also, pretty big for a 6% beer.
500 ml bottle. Pours a dark amber color with a small medium white head. A nice super sweet caramel and fruit nose. rich earthy dry grains, caramel, toffee, fruity, dusty, strawberries. Solid.
Bottle to LO glass. Beautiful copper red pour with a creamy light tan head. Bready biscuity with a dry bitter finish.
light blood aroma,golden, white foam, light sweetness, lightly bitter, medium body, hoppy, bitter finish.
Great beer. Golden coloured and hazy. White head, mostly lasting. Heavy hoppy, malty, crispy and harmonic. Cremy and dry.
Poured from bottle. Dark red pour. Half inch head. Good lacing. Toasted aroma. Full bodied. A little heavy but enjoyable. More of a winter beer
pours hazy bright golden reddish with a tall light beige orange head, very good retention and strong lacing. spicy toasted if not torrefied wheat, husky cereals, grilled habaneros and smokey chipotle, dark chocolate, lagering fruitiness - oranges, spicy and peppery apricots - cascadian-like, herbal tea, hint of wheat acidity, hint of maple sweetness, dusty yeast. average carboantion, light to medium body - oily, drying herbal-citrusy-grassy--peppery-astringent finish. spicy cocoa wheat ale. unique. quite enjoyed!
Blood of Kings has a hugely dank resinous sticky hop bouquet. The taste is surprising with licorice and other dark malt flavors added to the hops though the beer is a deep copper. A mindfuck kind of genre bending beer - try it at least once.
Half liter bottle courtesy of a friend. Thanks Mika! Pours a hazy rust color with a large foamy tan head. Good head retention. Aroma of wheat, bread, rye, toast, dark fruit. The taste is bread crusts, rye, caramel, spice, faint dried fruits. Medium bodied, dry, moderate carbonation, slight lingering bitterness. Solid.
Tap. Clear dark orange pour with a white pillowy head. Grain and bready. Some malty sweetness. Hint of fruit. Creamy palate. Okay.
Pours a murky reddish amber, thin beige head. Aroma is fresh earth, biscuit, caramel, sweet potato, faint stale bland hop. Flavor is malt city, bready, caramel, medium sweet with some murky earthy hop slipping through at the end. Med body. OK
Bottle from Binny’s in Chicago.
Pours a dark and murky reddish-brown with a small white ring of head.
Predominately bread in the aroma along with some raisin or plums. The taste is generally wheaty and breadlike. Moderate carbonation. Finishes with a touch of sweetness. It’s okay.
2014-08-09