Legend Maibock

Brewed by Legend Brewing Company
Style: Heller Bock
Richmond, Virginia USA

Serve in Lager glass, Shaker, Stein

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From the tap poured an amber color with a fair amount of head. Sweet malty flavor with a lasting finish.

12 oz bottle. Aroma- sweet, toast. Appearnce clear copper large head with fair retention. Flavor- Sweet with almost syrupy or cloying quality. More toast underneath. Plenty of bitterness. Palate- Medium-full body, sticky, moderate carbonation. Overall- First in this style that I really focus on. Not as refreshing in these hot sticky late spring days in Virginia.

Flat and headless beer is a caramel-ruby color that nearly looks artificial. Thin aromas of malt and some floral. Sweet tasting, with a drying finish that gives away the hops. Caramel on the finish. Full palate and a "contained" carbonation that enhances some of the malts on the finish, too.

The aroma is malty and sweet with a caramel quality as well as some hops to balance. The appearance is amber with a foamy head. The taste is like the aroma with an acidic bite. The palate is a bit thin. Overall a better than average beer.

Pint at the brewery . Mostly clear golden copper well carbonated. Aroma of caramel malts and some yeasty fruityness. Caramel with a bit of roast malt flavor. Some fruity yeast notes. Generally lacked any spicey german style hop flavor or bitterness. A bit of alchohol warming. Fairly thin light mouthfeel, seems to lack some of the expected malt sweetness typical in the style.

For some reason it loaded my comments under my husbands user name ( HopTsing). See his rating for my opinion.

Growler. Pours clear copper with thin, fizzy white head; short retention and spare lacing. Aroma caramel and toasted malt, pears, light spice, faint floral hops. Flavor is malt dominate with light fruit esters; sweet finish. Medium body with low carbonation and warmth.

Medium off white head, clear amber, yucky aroma. Smells of dust and malt. Chaffy scent. Dusty, faint taste, sweet and dirty. Metallic afternotes.

Date: 05/31/2006
Mode: Bottle
Source: Tasting

hazy brown, whispy beige head, rich dry malt aroma with an earthy quality, rich malt flavor, butterscotch sweetness, fleeting touch of unusal tartness,

Aroma: 6/10; Appearance: 6/10; Flavor: 5/10; Palate: 6/10; Overall: 10/20
Rating: 2.7/5.0
Drinkability: 6/10
Score: *4

Growler shared by maniac. Pours clear amber with a medium, frothy off-white head, medium retention with light lacing. Aroma is light butterscotch, straw and hay malt, light spicy hops. Flavor is malt dominant, light hops and bitterness, some butterscotch and a sweet finish. Medium body, warmth and carbonation.