Point Einbock

Brewed by Stevens Point Brewery
Style: Heller Bock
Stevens Point, Wisconsin USA

Serve in Lager glass, Shaker, Stein

Date: May 23, 2009
Mode: Bottle
Source: Ticker Tasting
Appearance: clear copper, wispy off white head, drippy lace
Aroma: sweet bready malt aroma, light earthyness, touch of caramel
Flavor: sweet malt flavor, touch of caramel sweetness, light earthyness for balance
Aroma: 5/10; Appearance: 6/10; Flavor: 5/10; Palate: 6/10; Overall: 11/20
Rating: 2.7/5.0
Drinkability: 7/10
Score: *4

12oz bottle acquired in trade with valpoaj (thanks!). Poured a medium orange color with a smaller sized off white head. Aromas of caramel, honey sweetness, and toasted grains. Tastes of toasted caramel, some honey, and a little bready.

Bottle. Poured clear copper color with a large frothy off-white head that mostly lasted with good lacing. Moderate toasted malt aroma. Medium body with a smooth texture and soft carbonation. Medium toasted sweet flavor with a medium sweet finish of moderate duration. Good drinkable beer.

Pale golden pour - thin white head. The aroma is slightly sweet and a little bit of lean malt. Softly sweet with a light honeyed flavour. A touch of white pepper. A bit clean and fairly sweet with some light alcohol. It’s quite nice actually, if fairly simple.

Pours a transparent bright copper amber with a thin, spotty-lacing off-white head. Aroma of sweet toasty, grainy German malts and some caramel toffee with a touch of lager yeast character. Body starts with good fullness and sweet malty notes balanced with a crisp noble hoppiness and some mild oxidation before a smooth, bittersweet finish. A pretty true to style and drinkable heller bock.

Good yellow-orange head over orange-foxy beer. Little chocolatey, point of ureum in the nose, whiff of hops, and precious little sugars for a Bock... Bit leafy, even grassy. Bitter chocolate, harsh hops dominate more chocolatey malts. Not very refined. Unripe banana peel, bit of orange flavour. Rainwater quality, soft water, but not watery; slick. Harsh-hoppy. No German Bock ever had half this amount of iso-alpha’s. Better choice of hops might have made this succeed on its own merits. Thanks to Dave A.

Oh yeah, good stuff. Big sweaty corn and sharp, dried wheat and barley nose. Crisp, moderately hoppy, a bit sharp, but also very fresh and mildly sweet with a bit of honey flavor, just what you want in a maibock. It’s nothing great, but it’s nothing terrible either, and these days I’m in a maibock mood.

Bottled. Poured brilliant translucent lighter orange with very little sticking around for head. The aroma picked up sweeter caramel with accents of rubbing alcohol.. warmth brought out some dry straw-like notes, but this wasn’t very complex. The flavor was along those same lines.. lightly-smoked, alcohol-laced caramel at the core with some herbal and medicinal bitterness around the edges.. short, brighter finish with toffee and a little darker fruit joining in. Medium-bodied and slick on the palate with low carbonation.. felt stronger than it probably should have.