UPDATED: NOV 30, 2023 Bottle. Aroma and flavor are the same. Toasted grain, mild toffee, with a soft, earthy hint in the finish. Lighter side of medium body. Pretty much exactly as you would expect.

UPDATED: SEP 21, 2023 Keg at stadsbrouwhuis. Pours clear golden, nose is toffee, caramel, floral, taste is sweet toffee, grassy.

UPDATED: SEP 21, 2023 keg at stadbrouwhuis...... deep amber... soft sweet caramel toffee fruit nose... soft sweet caramel toffee fruit light sweet grain

UPDATED: SEP 21, 2023 Tap. Clear amber color with white head. Aroma is caramel, papery malts, grains, decent grassiness. Taste is the same. Foamy carbonation, grainy finish. Alright.

UPDATED: JUL 9, 2023 On tap pours out copper topped with a small sand head. Nose is light caramel malts some pitfruit and a little spice. Taste is more of the nice sweet malts pitfruit and some spice.

UPDATED: JUN 8, 2023 Botella 330ml Color ambar, transparente, espuma blanca, fina, alta, resistente. Aroma malta, malta tostada, bizcocho, herbal, frutal. Sabor parecido, dulzor domina, ligero amargor, clásica!

UPDATED: MAY 27, 2023 Bottle from Gabriel - Cheers! 🍻🍻 Thin beige head on a slowly carbonating clear amber coloured body. Pine, outdoors & herbal aroma. Medium bodied, smooth with a lively back cloying back. Caramel, malt, berries & herbal tastes with a dry finish. Solid.

UPDATED: MAY 14, 2023 Clear amber pour with a thin white head and small spots of lacing …. Aroma of grains, sweet malts, honey, light floral hops, grass and lemon … taste of sweet malts, grains, grass, biscuits, honey, caramel malts and spices …. Fruity esters and dry grassy hops on the back end ….. finish is of fruity esters, spices, grassy hops and some bitter lemon …. Nice springy Bock

UPDATED: APR 14, 2023 April is in full swing and after a few rainy weeks, spring weather is forecasted in Belgium next week - so it is about time for an old German Maibock, and what brewery to better address for this than Einbecker, located in the very town where the Bock family in general was invented in the 16th century, even though the pale spring variant seems to have been invented in Munich in 1614 (still top-fermented at that time). Thick and frothy, egg-white, very moussy, regularly shaped and small-bubbled, plastery lacing, stable head on a crystal clear peach blonde robe with 'old golden' glow and disparate, fine sparkling; remains clear till the end so obviously filtered. Aroma of dry crackers, young linden leaves, hawkbits, unripe apricot, artisanal honey, white bread crust, a vague whiff of stale urine, mugwort shoots in spring, hard green pear (Conference), something vaguely sulfuric or 'burnt' in the background, grass. Clean, crisp onset, refreshing with underlying minerality but not just from the carbonation (which is lively but fine-bubbled), some 'green' and unripe fruitiness but in a non-estery, malty kind of way (green pear, unripe apricot); smooth, slick but relatively 'full' and rounded body, cereally and lightly cracker-like, 'pure' malt sweetishness with a touch of linden honey to it (but this could be my spring-inspired imagination). The sweetness remains thin and feeble, though, and gradually makes room for a floral and grassy, bit leafy hop bitter element, adding a gentle dryness to the finish but remaining well in balance with the malts. A touch of gin-like alcohol seems noticeable and something 'cooked' remains (pasteurization!) - two aspects I was not expecting, because the first should not be noticeable at all at this strength and the second lends the whole beer an industrial 'macro' feel I was hoping to avoid. Points off for that - this Maibock clearly is not the most solid beer in their otherwise decent portfolio, but my craving for a refreshing German 'spring Lager' is satisfied still. Delicate features here and there, but the pasteurization is a big 'argument contra' for me - so weighing all the elements here, let us conclude with an average rating. Expected just a bit more, to be entirely honest.

UPDATED: APR 2, 2023 Instabile kleinporige Krone. Dunkelbraun bis rot bronzene Farbe. Süß malziger Geruch. Leicht Weizen ähnlicher Geschmack, dezente Röstaromen. Hinterlässt ziemlich diesen Nachgeschmack. Hoher Alkoholgehalt kaum zu merken