UPDATED: MAR 30, 2024 Pours beautiful deep mahagony, brief head. Sweet, spiced, roasted, bready aroma. Flavor follows aroma. Nice medium body. Really solid.

UPDATED: MAR 21, 2024 Bottle from Downer Ave Wine. Pours brown and hearty with a khaki head. Leaves trace lacing in the glass. Robust caramel and malt on the nose and tongue. finished clean. Very sippable.

UPDATED: JAN 1, 2024 Double draft for NYE in Milwaukee. Thats a really nice dark bock. Lightly sweet, a hint of light spice and rich caramel malt. Enjoyable.

UPDATED: DEC 7, 2023 Tap. Pours clear chestnut, small off white head, decent lacing. Aaron's is malty, earthy, caramel, hint of copper. Flavor is light plus sweet, light bitter. Medium body

UPDATED: APR 23, 2019 Clear, brownish red pour with an off-white head. The aroma has cereal, toffee, and chocolate. It has a full body with average carbonation. The taste is sweet and slightly roasted with a dry finish.

Caramel. Earth. Honey. Murky caramel amber. Off white thick foamy head. Tons of lacing. Medium bodied. Unsweetened cocoa. Earth. Honey. Dark bread. Clean finish. ---Rated via Beer Buddy for iPhone

UPDATED: DEC 26, 2018 Bottle with many thanks to Drake! Pours clear brown with a small beige head. Aroma is wet brown leaves, caramel, light smoked peat. Flavor is brown leaf, dried flowers, fresh plum, brown grass, light gum. Good flavor

Got in a trade with The-Adjunct-Hippie. 12 ounce bottle into tulip glass, best before 2/19/2017. Pours sightly hazy/cloudy deep ruby red, light copper/brown color with a 1-2 finger dense and fluffy light khaki head with good retention, that reduces to a small cap that lingers. Nice spotty soapy lacing clings on the glass, with a moderate amount of streaming carbonation retaining the cap. Aromas of caramel, brown sugar, brown bread, toasted biscuit, raisin, plum, fig, cherry, and apple; with lighter notes of nuttiness, roast, toffee, molasses, herbal, grass, and yeast/toasted earthiness. Nice and pleasant aromas with good balance and complexity of dark/bready/light roast malts and light earthy hop/fruity yeast notes; with solid strength. Taste of big caramel, brown sugar, brown bread, toasted biscuit, raisin, plum, fig, cherry, and apple; with lighter notes of nuttiness, roast, toffee, molasses, herbal, grass, and yeast/toasted earthiness. herbal/grassy hop and roast bitterness on the finish. Lingering notes of caramel, brown sugar, brown bread, toasted biscuit, dark fruit, nuttiness, toffee, molasses, light chocolate/coffee, herbal, grass, and yeast/toasted earthiness on the finish for a while. Very nice complexity, robustness, and balance of dark/bready/light roast malts and light earthy hop/fruity yeast flavors; with a nice malt/bitterness balance, and zero cloying flavors after the finish. Minimal dryness. Nicely clean on lager flavors, not too fruity/yeasty. Medium carbonation and medium-full body; with a very smooth, creamy/bready/grainy, and slightly slick/sticky/chalky mouthfeel that is great. Zero warming alcohol as expected of 6.7%. Overall this is a very nice traditional bock. All around nice complexity, robustness, and balance of dark/bready/light roast malts and light earthy hop/fruity yeast flavors; very smooth and easy to drink with the mildly bitter finish. Rich, clean, and complex Dark/Munich malt complexity, with some mild earthy hop balance; and complimenting dark fruity notes. A very enjoyable offering, and spot on style example.

Bottle. Aroma of chocolate, coffee, and dark fruit.Sweet coffee (hints of roast) with fruit and chocolate in the taste.

Another old bottle I have been staring at and not drinking, approximately 10 years old. The aroma is figs/dates, some caramel and hints of coffee and chocolate. Pours very dark, almost black held up to a light. Light tan head fully diminishing and very good lacing. The taste is non-descript, probably umami or sat on it too long :(. The body is medium/light, the texture creamy, the carbonation average and the finish non-descript. I know people love this and I wish I hadn’t sat on it for so long. Still for 10 years in the fridge this has held up very well!