3.5 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 14/20
Deep golden pour with a modest bubbly white head. Aroma is full of a light caramel note, light apple fruitiness and ends with a grainy and alcohol note. Flavor is a very nice fruity note, light grainy note, some honey sweetness and a mild grassy/floral hops ending. Solid feel for the style and a decent carbonation. Overall one of their better brews and really stands out as a good brew.
3.4 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 7/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 14/20
500ml bottle. Bronze-tan color, some head. The aroma is sweet and pungent, pretty bocky and true to style. Actually ends up being quite enjoyable, with the sweet sugary malt up front, balanced by a nice hop crispness. Some nice lager notes beneath the almost peppery bitterness. A tad thin and watery, which probably is for the best for Sprecher.
3.2 AROMA 7/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
16 oz bottle from my February trip to the brewery (Glendale, WI). My trek to finish my Wisco swag continues! Pours a light hazed amber, moderate bright white head that cakes a bit, well carbonated body, head sticks around and laces. Aromas are a bit malty off the bat, caramel and toffee sweetness, some pale malts, some florals and fruitiness from the hops bump in after a bigger whiff. Initial is light on body, pushing more of a cereal graininess, pale malts seem to fit the part well as this lager takes on a mellow maltiness and respectable hoppy bitterness on the backend. Florals and earthy hops, good bitterness. Respectable for the style, lacking a bit in body, flavors leave the brew sessionable, but perhaps a little dull.
3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 2/5 OVERALL 13/20
Smooth malty taste from beginning to end. There is a short bitter zip on the back end of this beer. This is a deceptively ominous looking bottle for a pretty regular beer.
Though not a bad beer not worth the price.
3.1 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 13/20
(bottle - 16 oz) Clear orange color with a fizzy white head. Aroma is sweet malts mixed with some very light hops and cookie dough. Flavor is a nice balance of hops and malt sweetness. The malts take control near the end and impart a light doughy note on the finish and finishes with a crisp and lightly dry flavor.
3.3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 15/20
Bottle. Moderate malt aromas of cookie and caramel, very light orange for the hops, light dough for the yeast, with wine , honey and spice notes. Head is small, wispy, white with no lacing and is mostly diminishing. Color is clear, dark orange/tan. Flavor starts lightly sweet and moderately acidic, then finishes lightly bitter. Palate is light to medium, between watery and oily and has a fizzy carbonation. The complexity of this Mai Bock separates it from other beers of this style.
3 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 3/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 3/5 OVERALL 12/20
Orange pour with light white head. Aroma of dough, sweetness, light hops. Sweet, crisp taste, with some ligh hop finish. Slightly fruity, Nice, carbonated moutfeel with light finish. Overall, pretty good.
3.2 AROMA 6/10 APPEARANCE 4/5 TASTE 6/10 PALATE 4/5 OVERALL 12/20
16 oz bottle. Pours a light orange-amber with rocky, billowy head. Too bad bottles are screw caps, they’d be nice for homebrewing. Aroma of sweet malt, almost nutty and cracker-like. Definite German "Bock" nose though. Body is very light, almost like a Boddington’s. Mild bitterness balanced with malty sweetness. Finishes quickly. Nice beer- not overly complex, but well made.
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