Big River Grille Winters Nip Winter Bock

Brewed by Big River Grille & Brewing Works Chattanooga (Gordon Biersch)
Style: Dunkler Bock
Chattanooga, Tennessee USA

Serve in Dimpled mug, Snifter

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Draught at the Hamilton Place location. Pours bold brownish red with off-white head. The aroma is malty sweet with maraschino cherry, almond, fruity sweetness, and just a touch of alcohol, and yogurt-covered raisins. The flavor is harshly toasty with some caramel sweetness and a fairly strong yeast bite. Desembodied herbal bitterness. Meh.

Bottle from Greenlife in Chattanooga. Clear brown, huge white head. Malty, toasty and fresh bread aroma. Flavor is lightly toasty, some spicy notes. A little nutty, as well. Maybe it benefited from lowered expectations, but I enjoyed this more than I expected.

Clear medium brown with a small soapy head of white. Some malt in the aroma. Some sourness that shouldn’t be there as well. Not much flavor for a style that should present lots of malty goodness. Very disappointing.

@Disney World-on tap-pours brown/dark copper with a red tint and a tan head that laces. Aroma of light malt-caramel. Taste is medium malt-caramel/nutty/brown sugar, 2nd spice hop bitter. Medium bodied with good carbonation.

Draft: Poured a dark brown with a reddish outline, also had a light beige head. Aroma was roasted malt. Taste was a sweet malt, nice warming to the taste buds as well.

Deep amber pour with fluffy tan head and lace. Aroma of light caramel malt. Light caramel malt flavor, brown sugar, and a light finishing bitter. Medium bodied with good carbonation with just a light hint of watery. Very nice with just a hint of spiceyness.

Draught. Pours a crystal clear, reddish brown amber with an off-white head that settles in to a thin film that clutters at the edge of the glass. Aroma is faint, mildly spicy, bready. Flavor is a bit dry, bitter and spicy with rye notes.

On tap at Hamilton Place. This pours a deep, dark red with a just a small ring of head. The aroma is sort of roasty with hints at wax chocolate, grass, and nutshells. The mouthfeel is medium with a semi-tart flavor of wax chocolate, brownie crust, and nuttiness. This is a fair winter beer but not as suited for the season as their Iron Horse Stout. This is drinkable. For a bock, I liked it well enough as it lacked that weird fruity, gummy flavor I sometimes find in the style.

Dark clear brown-red, loose tan head. Aroma is sweet malts, cocoa, caramel, fruity. Taste is roasty but metallic, sweet, cocoa, some fruit, apples, berries, caramel.