Holsten Maibock

Brewed by Holsten-Brauerei (Carlsberg)
Style: Heller Bock
Hamburg, Germany

Serve in Lager glass, Shaker, Stein

UPDATED: SEP 20, 2007 500 mL can. Bronze with almost no head. Strongish aroma of roasted apples, maybe cinnamon, with a hint of alcohol at the end. Very malty. Taste of sweet (roasted?) fruit, alcohol, maybe a little caramel. Mild aftertaste is briefly bitter, then sweet.

Canette de 500 ml. Couleur jaune foncé, peu de collet. Arome de malte de caramel faible et peu impressionnant. Goût de caramel alcoolisé ennuyant. Zzzzzzzz!

UPDATED: JUL 10, 2008 Golden body with a small white head. Smell of toasted bread and butterscotch. Taste of dead dry leaves, cereals and butterscotch. It’s not that it tastes bad, it’s just not very tasty and the little it tastes is rather boring. Gets more caramelized and remains as boring when it warms up. One of the worst thing to hit my neighbourhood during the month of May after those @%$!* mayflies.

500ml can, deep honey gold color, with a frothy white head, bready dough, hint of floral hops, light malty aroma follows through on a medium-bodied palate with a toasty malt, grainy and bready accents, caramelized malt, hint of fruitiness, leading towards a hint of vanilla spiciness and toasty, light hoppiness finish.

Lack some oomph! But still a good beer. Mouthfeel is smooth. Pours something like a golden colour, with almost no head.

Really not that special, lacks nuttiness and baked-sweet qualities and is two dinensional. Mainstreambock.

My overall impression was that this beer is called a Bock, but it is more like a strong lager-- deep rich golden, small head. sweet malty aroma with a hint of alcohol to raise the hair on the back of your neck. Sweet malty palate that becomes cloying after a short time. Seriously, this is a strong lager in bock’s clothing. Forget it.

Can pours apple juice yellow with some sort of head. Sweet and alcoholic nose with a hint of aromatic hop. Alcohol drowns out all other flavours.