Left Hand Rye Bock

Brewed by Left Hand Brewing Co.
Style: Dunkler Bock
Longmont, Colorado USA

Serve in Dimpled mug, Snifter

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UPDATED: JUN 14, 2009 75 cL bottle. Pours dark brown and hazy with a lacing off-white head. Aroma is a mix of caramel, hops and rye malt. Smooth flavoured with hops and a light caramel sweetness and to a nice rye flavoured base body. Easy breadish finish with a light uplifting fruity accent from the hops.7-3-8-3-16=3.7

From bottle, blind #8. Pours cloudy dark brown with a small white head. Cornish, grainy and slight spiced aroma. Mild spiced, honey herbal yet also rather dry flavoured. Bitter and slight spiced finish. Roasted, bitter and slight spiced finish, again lasting dry impression into the far finish.7-3-7-3-15=3.5

On tap at Taco Mac located in Kennesaw, GA on Chastain Road (Chastaino Mac). Appearance: Clear, dark chestnut brown body with a small, white head. Smell: Aroma of toasty caramel, chocolate, cherries, and golden raisins. Taste: Rich medley of chocolate, burnt caramel, and fruit flavors upfront with a medium amount of sweetness. The fruitiness subsides, allowing a touch of alcohol to take its place. Hint of Slight encroaching spiciness from the rye grains and hops. Warming, long finish with all of the flavors simply not wanting to let go and say "goodbye". Mouthfeel: Medium-bodied. Medium carbonation. Drinkability: I’d had one of the original bottles back in the day and, well, didn’t like it one bit. This, however, is much better.

Honey and malt aroma, slightly tannic, slightly floral. Misty, tea-colored with a thin ringing head. Clear, sweet, lightly bitter, a graham cracker maltiness. Medium body, bitter and twangy on the front of the tongue. Medium -long bitter finish. Good and interesting.

<i>75 cl corked and caged bottle:</i>
Pours dark reddish brown with a slight haze. Head is big and foamy. Aroma is sweet with notes of berries; red currants and blueberries. Flavour is sweet with notes of caramel and aniseed. The finish is long and really bitter.

750 I bought a ways back at the Vienna Virginia Whole Foods. That cork was a total bitch to get out. Pours orange with a 1 finger tan head. Nose is smoky and malty with notes of rye. Taste has some more smoke in it with some nice rye notes, tasty brew.

(750ml bottle, courtesy of Kevin) Pours a murky brown body with a tall beige head. Aroma of toasted malt, rye, mustiness, and dried cherry. Flavor of toasted bread, chocolate, caramel malt, and rye.

Bottle - 750mL corked and caged. 2007 bottle conditioned. Pretty dark copper pour with some magenta around the edges. Small, soft tan colored head. Spotty, delicate lacing on the glass. Aroma is rye, caramel, dark fruits, and sweet malts. Taste is also rye with big caramel, sweet, chewy malts, dark fruit flavors, some grass, and light spice. The body is medium but very bubbly and carbonated. Finishes with more chewy, sweet malts, lots of caramel, some chocolate, dark fruits and rye. Dark bready notes here as well. rather tasty, but I don’t know how well this would hold up as it aged.

(75 cl bottle purchased by deft from Systembolaget)
BB could not be found, but labaled 2008 (vintage?)
On September 1, 2008
Clear copper color, big tan head. Sweet, amlty, grainy scent with lactic and fruity notes. Lactic, phenolic, metallic, dry, sweet, malty taste. Moussy mouthfeel, medium bitterness. Dry (slight) rosated aftertaste with sugary sirup hints.

Bottled. Brown copper colour with off-white, cottony head. Pretty sweet aroma with somewhat complex aroma profile. There are almonds, canned fruits, hazelnuts and melon in the smell. Mouthfeel is pretty big but not all to sweet and sticky compared to some bocks. I notice a hoppiness, along with hazelnuts, bit of cinnamon and some unnamed spices, maybe clove and light pepper. The aftertaste is that of pepper and slight fennel or anise. It is pretty sweet, but not as sticky as mentioned before. This is an interesting interpretation of the style Dunkler Bock.

UPDATED: SEP 1, 2008 (Bottle) The pour is deep mahogany/reddish brown with a pale nougat head. The aroma is of spicy rye and herbal hops with a creamy caramel malt backbone. The malt also brings notes of roasted nuts, milk chocolate and toasted dark bread. Undertones of dark fruits, dark cherries, clove, mild ginger, earthy cinnamon and light molasses. Something reminds me of citrus, quite strange for the style. The flavour is malty and spicy with tones of caramel, milk chocolate, roasted nuts, dark bread, ginger, cinnamon and clove. Some herbal hops and cherries with just a whisper of smoke. The mouthfeel is soft and creamy yet light sticky and light numbing (from the alcohol) with a smooth carbonation. Malty aftertaste. Medium sweet and light to medium bitter. Medium to full bodied.