Schell Maifest

Brewed by August Schell Brewing Company
Style: Heller Bock
New Ulm, Minnesota USA

Pours a light copper color with foamy white head and a decent amount of carbonation. Aroma is fruity sweet and malty. Flavor is light and smooth with an alcohol finish. A little too sweet and alcohol tasting for my liking. Overall, so so.

Pours a medium/light golden with a minimal white head. Good lacing on the sides of the glass. Sweet and slightly appley aroma. Nice thick body on this one. Flavor is sorta sweet and appley, and not particularly pronounced. Not particularly bitter or hoppy, but quite alcohol flavored. Not bad but nothing great.

Bottle. Pours a cloudy amber with a small, frothy head and aromas of apple juice, punky vegetation and sugary sweetness. Flavor is kind of a mess of sweetness and fruit with a bit of odd vegetation and metal. Still, it is better than the nose would have indicated... still, it could be much bett

From a 12 oz. long neck brown bottle with a blurb about the beer on the back label and a coded lot/package number on the shoulder of bottle. Made a good appearance, poured a clear golden amber with a large foamy golden white head that reduced to thin lacing and a small amount of ringed sticking. Had a fruity toffee aroma with traces of lemon and banana. Decent carbonation and a slick light bodied mouth feel, easy drinkability. Taste had a sweet and sour effect, at first sweet malty and banana followed by a sour lemon and orange zest with a very mellow bitterness, not exactly balanced, with a semi-dry sweet finish. An o.k. Maibock/Helles Bock, a little too light bodied with a mixed up taste, not smooth tasting.

Poured a dark golden color with minimal head that dissipated rather quickly. Had somewhat of a spicey aroma to it. Taste was malty but not too sweet. Something is missing in the flavor. Mouthfeel is good. Ok, but I would definitely not seek out.

Well blended bitterness with a creamy palate. Easy to drink and nothing over-whelms anything else in the beer. Decent.

Bottled. Poured a rather ugly medium golden with a head that dissapeared quite quickly. The nose was of sweet, lightly-toasted caramel with some floral hops. Flavor was very sweet, again with the toasted caramel, some toffee, herbal hops, and touches of alcohol. Smooth across the middle, but rather tacky and ugly around the edges. Sticky caramel and alcohol finish. Just OK.

Golden hue beer with a small head and not much carbonation in the glass. The aroma is honeyed and rose scented like a spring meadow. The taste is predominately hops centered and the malt sits behind a salty watery base. The palate is overly carbonated a too bubbly. I was disappointed in this beer.