3.5 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 14/20
(Bottle, Stockholm Beer Festival, 30 Sep) Amber colour with disappearing off-white head. Malty, fruity nose with some malt sweetness and notes of figs and dates. Same goes for the taste: malty and fruity with figs and raisins. Initially sweet, turning into a drier finish with flowery hops. Well balanced and tasty.
2.5 AROMA 4/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 5/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 10/20
Bottled.
Amber color, small white head. Very strong nose of rye bread and American hops. Bready, ryeish malty flavor. Long malty aftertaste.
3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
Bottled. Orange/amber colour, small white head. Aroma is rye, white bread and sweetish hops. Slight buttery notes also. Flavour is rue, caramel, butter and malts. The finish is quite hayish. Smooth and drinkable.
3.5 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 8/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 13/20
[Bottled at Stockholm Beer Festival] Clear golden. Buttery malt aroma. Medium sweet with chewy, buttery malt character. Crisp with light grassty hoppiness and solid body. Thoroughly well made pale bock.
3.2 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
Kind of a light copper color with thin white head. Fairly light aroma of sweet malts and maybe a little hops. There is an assertive hop presence that outweighs the traditional Mai Bock sweet maltiness. Nice well rounded beer. Sweet malt lingers into the after taste.
3.8 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 10/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 14/20
Had this taster at the 2006 OBF. malt aroma, very balanced. great taste of this style! medium bodied. very good.
3.5 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 14/20
gotta love these 16 oz. bottles from Sprecher! a well rounded bock with the color of honey and a decent off-white head. aroma was of the pale malt and flavors of mild sweetness, some honey, pepper and some floral hops. a hint of a strange sourness at the very end kept this from scoring a couple of tenths higher.
3.5 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 15/20
Bottle (500ml). Clear orange-amber with a decent white fizzy head. There’s some nice grainy malt in there, some light herbal hops, yeasty and slightly funky, almost woody. The alcohol’s in the taste, which is woody malt, soft grain and increasing orange zest bitterness in the medium-length finish. Decent body, astringent and nicely carbonated mouthfeel - very nice, I like the tang that blunts any hint of excessive sweetness here.
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